Not to mention they help you to keep the style constant and aid in navigation, are needed for automated table of contents, etc.īut as far as I can see, while you can create style presets in Scrivener, they are not retained when compiling the text for Word. Paragraph and character styles allow you to quickly change font characteristics (like font style, font size) for specific text elements (like headers, footnotes) in the whole document with just a few clicks. Unfortunately, Scrivener does not seem to use paragraph and character styles for footnotes, which is a problem when you move the text to Word. Not to mention that many people still use it, so if you want to give it to your supervisor, you probably have to.

And if you use a lot of footnotes and want more control over them, you might want to use it for the final version. Personal hatred aside, Word does have a few strengths. While I used InDesign for my PhD thesis, many users will probably want to use Microsoft Word or a similar program. And then compile the text and use another program to create a nicely formatted text. Personally, I highly recommend using Scrivener to create the text, edit it, put out draft after draft until the text is “finished”.

While Scrivener is the best writing software I have ever worked with (and still work with), it is not made to format texts. I was asked how to format footnotes when using Scrivener, which led me to the question how to preserve formatting styles when compiling Scrivener into Microsoft Word documents. Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw.

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