Here’s a screenshot with the settings I used to make this work.
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Now do Format->Formatting->New Preset From Selection. Specifically, you want a paragraph that has the proper font, size, indentation, margins, and so on. Select a body paragraph that’s very exemplary. Why? Cause they can be copied on accident and you’ll have to remove them by hand. If you have comments in the Word file-which I do since I’m handling copy edits-delete them. For me that means both of them have body text styles set to Times New Roman in the 12pt size. Make sure your MS Word file and your manuscript are as close a match as possible. (The silver lining is that I am learning a lot of grammar.)Īnyway, that’s not what you’re here for. The whole book would have taken me about 60 hours to do at my old pace. So you have the devil’s choice of manually transferring the word document OR all your precious formatting.Īs I’m facing 220,000 words of copy editing right now this means I’ve been spending days alt-tabbing between Word and Scrivener manually applying accepted revisions. Paste-Match-Style from MS Word to Scrivener will drop all italics and it’ll make all your quotes straight quotes. So if you’ve ever tried to do this, then you know what a pain it is. I hope my process here will help other authors leap over this hurdle one way or the other. I’m not a Scrivener guru, more like a neophyte.
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Will it work for you and your workflow/manuscript? IDK.
#HOW TO COPY AND PASTE IN WORD WITHOUT LOSING FORMATTING WINDOWS#
So, the title says it all - this is how I am copy-pasting from MS Word, to Scrivener, on Windows 10, without losing my italics and such. I don’t intend for to be a writing blog, but some things are too important not to share.