Scrivener For Dummies

Gwen Hernandez conducts online training courses in Scrivener. An aspiring romance author, she has worked as a programmer, a business school instructor, and a manufacturing engineer.

• Introduction 1Part I: Getting to Know Scrivener 7Chapter 1: Getting Started in Scrivener 9Chapter 2: Organizing Your Work with the Binder 21Part II: Meeting the Inspector 43Chapter 3: Working with the Synopsis 45Chapter 4: Tracking Scene Elements with Metadata 51Chapter 5: Working with Document Support Panes 67Part III: Starting to Write 93Chapter 6: Introducing the Editor: Where the Magic Happens 95Chapter 7: Getting Rid of Distractions with Composition Mode 119Chapter 8: Planning Your Project with the Corkboard 129Chapter 9: Getting a High-Level View of Your Project with the Outliner 145Chapter 10: Marking Up Your Text with Inline Annotations and Comments 159Chapter 11: Citing Your Sources with Footnotes 171Part IV: Getting Your Manuscript Out There 183Chapter 12: Setting Up the Compile Options 185Chapter 13: Exporting Your Project with Compile 227Part V: Customizing Your Scrivener Experience 245Chapter 14: Setting Word Count Goals and Checking Progress 247Chapter 15: Saving Time with Custom Layouts and Project Templates 261Chapter 16: Creating Useful Forms with Document Templates 277Part VI: Getting the Most Out of Scrivener 285Chapter 17: Searching High and Low 287Chapter 18: Creating Collections for Quick Access to Related Files 305Chapter 19: Saving Versions of Your Files with Snapshots 319Chapter 20: Tracking Your Revisions 333Chapter 21: Protecting Your Work with Automatic and Manual Backups 341Part VII: The Part of Tens 349Chapter 22: Ten Awesome Features That Didn’t Fit Anywhere Else 351Chapter 23: Ten Ways to Get More Help 359Index 363