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Tech Tuesday: Getting rid of extra paragraph returns (or tabs or line breaks) in Scrivener

March 12, 2013Gwen HernandezTech Stuff66 Comments

[UPDATE: Scrivener 3 now supports many of these replacements via Edit>Text Tidying.] There’s a temptation when writing in Scrivener (or a word processor) to press the Return key twice at the end of a paragraph to give it that nice, visual break. Problem is, when you’re setting up your manuscript for submission or publication, those

Tech Tuesday: Project Replace in Scrivener

If you change your character’s name from Rob to Joe, and you don’t set it up correctly, you could end up with odd words in your manuscript, like “PJoeably”, “Joe a bank”, and “thJoe”. Of course, Scrivener’s Project Replace feature has a couple of important options to ensure that you only replace the desired instances