026 where is the ruler?

[Marta]

I've been offline for a few days- had some blue screen problems shortly after installing 026-- NOT RELATED TO SCRIVENER-- I hasten to add, but physical damage.

Anyway, I thought there was a ruler in scrivener as in Word, final draft, etc. Am I wrong?

If it's there, how do I make it visible again?

Also, I've tried to set my default font to COURIER FINAL DRAFT, but it keeps defaulting to either VERDANA or MS SANS SERIF. Anything I need to change in my preferences than I'm not finding? I have every option I see to COURIER FINAL DRAFT, but must be missing something

Sorry if this has already been covered, but my brain is at half speed with all the hardware "blankety-blank" problems....

I'll be more focused when my new hard drive is up and running and I don't have to be on pins and needles when I work in a program

Thanks,
Marta

WINXP SERVICE PACK 3

[SpirosD]

In the Format menu, select "Show Ruler" (Ctrl+Shift+R)

In the Tools menu, select "Options". Then, select the "Editor" tab, (the fifth one). In the Default Main Text Attributes area, press the blue "A" and select Courier Final Draft.

Don't forget to click the "Apply" button down to the right, for your changes to take effect.

The typeface will be Courier Final Draft only for new docs. I don't think you can globally change the typeface for docs you've already created (but I could be wrong)

[MimeticMouton]

To change existing documents to your new default formatting that you set in Options, select the documents in the binder and then choose Documents\Convert\Formatting to Default Text Style. (So long as your focus remains in the binder when you do this--or any list view, really; you could select multiple documents in the outliner or corkboard, too--the conversion will apply to all the selected documents.)

[SpirosD]

Like I said, I could be wrong.

Thanks MimeticMouton, that's a really useful tip.

I have quite a few projects that I'd love to change the typeface on and I was resigned to leaving it as is.

[Marta]

To change existing documents to your new default formatting that you set in Options, select the documents in the binder and then choose Documents\Convert\Formatting to Default Text Style. (So long as your focus remains in the binder when you do this--or any list view, really; you could select multiple documents in the outliner or corkboard, too--the conversion will apply to all the selected documents.)

Thank you Jennifer and Spiros D
I'm on another computer and will implement the changes you suggested as soon as I can get back to my REAL computer, which will hopefully be in a couple of days.

Bear with me, till I'm back on track
Marta