I want the font in the Binder to pop, and I admit I like Comic Sans (I have no idea why that has such a bad rep). I follow the same steps as above and choose the shade of yellow I like. Back I go back to Tools=>Options=>Appearance and select Document Notes Background. On the Scrivener Mac version, my Document Notes are a legal pad yellow, and I like that, so I want to change that as well. Same steps as above, but this time select Editor=>Page. I’m not doing anything on my part to confuse you. Note: Scrivener’s window background changes because I have wallpaper that keeps changing. Click on that and a color swatch window will open.ĥ. To the right, you’ll see the box with the default color. In the section that says Colors, click on General and select Binder Background.Ĥ. When the window opens, select the “Appearance” tab.ģ. To change the Binder’s background to a different color follow these steps:Ģ. The default colors of your Binder and Editor and Inspector appear this way: By the time I’m done, you’ll see a rainbow and maybe even a pot of gold. Today I’ll show you how to change the background to the Binder, Editor, and in the Inspector plus few other tidbits. When you go to the “Editing” tab and then click on “Formatting”, almost at the bottom you have the “Comments Font” setting that defines your default comment formatting.I have no issue with Scrivener’s default appearance, but I’ve heard from many folks that Scrivener’s stark white background is a bit hard on the eyes. If you don’t like the default formatting setting, you can change that in the preferences. If you want to return to regular formatting, just right-click on the comment in the inspector and choose “Convert To Default Formatting”. For example, you can’t create a list in a comment, but most of the formatting tools work. The tools that don’t work inside the comments are greyed out. When your cursor is in one of the comment fields, you have most of your regular formatting tools available. You can also change the color of your comments, just right-click in the comment field and select a color, or, if you prefer a custom one, go to “Show Colors” and create a new one. To delete a comment, just click on the “x” in the upper right corner and it’s gone. If you click on it, it will jump to the comments window and highlight the corresponding comment field there. This is because Scrivener has now created a link to your comment. Accessing CommentsĪs you can see, the selected text now is underlined and the color changes. And now you can enter whatever comment you want to link to the selected text in your document. When you click that, Scrivener will automatically create a new comment and it also gives you time and date when this comment was created in case you want to include that.Īlso, the comment field is already active and time and date are selected, so in case you don’t need those, just hit the backspace key and they’re gone. Not the speech bubble way a the top, that one just selects this inspector section. To place comments in your draft, just select the part that you want to link to the comment, and then click on the speech bubble icon at the top of the “Comments & Footnotes” pane. When you open that up you see that at the top it says “Comments & Footnotes”.ĭon’t worry about the footnote part for now, we’re going to look at that another time. To get to the comments section, open your inspector by clicking on the “i” button in the toolbar, and then go to the last tab, the one most to the right that has that speech bubble as icon. What we are talking about here, are comments. Your Scrivener notes are an extra document so to speak that is saved together with the document in the binder. Scrivener stores notes in the “Notes” section in the first section of the inspector. Comments in Scrivener are what often is called “Notes” in other applications, because basically you are – in a way – adding notes to your document. Whatever the application, let’s look at how comments work in Scrivener.īefore we do that, just one note about the terminology here. Or, maybe someone else who is also using Scrivener gives you comments about what you wrote. This might be useful for yourself, when you have certain text areas that you want to find easily or mark up to get back to later. Scrivener has different commenting functions to annotate your draft.
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