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P is for … Paste and Match Style

Among all the topics listed under ‘P’ in the Index of Scrivener Posts, I could have picked any of them but felt ‘Paste and Match Style’ is one you might only stumble across by accident. And yet, it’s a must-have if you are pulling material from elsewhere into a Scrivener project. And who doesn’t?

Using Paste and Match Style involves some of those essential executive functions.

1. The ability to anticipate what’s coming up and make plans accordingly – see also number 8, flexibility!
2. The ability to organise – thoughts, ideas, the scenes/chapters of my novels, …
3. Reliability – doing what we agreed when we said it would be done (or earlier!)
4. Getting up and getting on with the work – ie self motivation
5. Managing our time to achieve the best results
6. Paying attention to detail (quality …)
7. Remembering stuff that’s important
8. Flexibility – willingness to make changes in our plans or our approach
9. Determination – ability to keep going
10. Willingness to reflect on our own contribution to the team (and learn from it)

Scrivener gem

If you want to copy material from elsewhere (from Word or the Internet, say), and  plan to paste it into your Scrivener project, instead of just pasting, use Paste and Match Style. This will save you from introducing all kinds of nonsense formatting into your project. 

If you have time today, read on. If not, make a note to come back to this post another day.

This is an extract from a blog post that ‘solves’ common problems. Read and apply …

In case you are curious … the rest of that blog post also solves

• ‘common problem 1’ [Editor pane defaults]
• ‘common problem 3’ [Imported text from Word carries its own formatting] and
• ‘common problem 4’ [Text copied from a webpage]

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