I just got “reprimanded” for my loud laughing at 'not work related web browsing". It is comical the level of patience you must (and do) show on the forum. I’d have banned some folks a long time ago.
Any issues that people might have with the software can easily be found BEFORE spending any money on it, as the trial is full-featured and is for THIRTY FREAKING DAYS. If you can’t figure out in a month that the software doesn’t do what you want, that’s on you, and you alone.
Nope, no sarcasm. That was true before I gave up on Scrivener early 2019. I revisited this issue after I posted it and see it can now be done in full screen mode. However, back in 2018, this could NOT be done. I Contacted customer support at the time and the work around was exporting to Word then back to Scrivener; A rather ludicrous work around and something that should have been a basic function.
I haven’t used Scrivener since early 2019 because of issues (at the time) such as not being able to do a project word count, or highlighted word count or global search. I see now it can be done in full screen mode. But, what was really a problem was how Scrivener simply did not work well with Word. Most editors will make edit comments in Word. And, these comments do not transfer to Scrivener. As a result, most of the organizational advantages of Scrivener are lost in the time it took to make edits done in Word transferred to Scrivener.
I take a peak in every now and then hoping the illusive Windows version 3.0 is available. But, it’s becoming sort of like the unicorn. You would think that an almost 2 yr. wait would not be considered acceptable by Scrivener developers.
That is by design. Scrivener is not a word processor. That is precisely why it is popular. It is a content creation tool, and formatting and processing is better done after export.
You’ll be better off using a word processor for your work. Scrivener will not bend to fit that particular way of working. It’s not intended to do that. Version 3 may do a bit more of it, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. That’s simply not the way Scrivener is built to work.
Well I for one am grateful to 7t for posting his or her thoughts here; he or she has saved me forking out for scrivener only to be frustrated by it. Having experienced a glitch with line break spacing during compiling using my free trial, these posts have helped me see that it’s not the right program for me. So while it might have been frustrating for them to spend their time posting here, and probably won’t see this comment, I’m saying a virtual thanks for helping me make up my mind not to switch to scrivener. I get now that it’s not supposed to be wysiwyg in the editor, but this page break and line break stuff would do my head in Maybe I could have learned to live with it, but the extremely patronising replies from the admin made my mind up.
I’ll keep looking for an alternative to Word.
I just cannot get over the condescending attitude of both the users and Scrivener ‘people’ in this forum. Absolute bullshit and has completely turned me off using Scrivener. I don’t even care about v.3 anymore, or how good it may or not be. Users succinctly and eloquently voice there opinions or offer valid feedback and this is the treatment they get? No way. Uninstalling now and moving on. You should all learn how to communicate with customers and fellow users. Your pushing back against anything even slightly critical of the software shows me that your cult-like behaviour is really a little scary. Buh-bye.
They say be the change you want to see. Lunk simply told you that if you had posted for help, we would’ve helped. He’s remarking that there’s a flaw in your logic. If you just encounter a problem and don’t try to fix it, instead opting to go on the forum and tell everyone you are moving on because of some bugs, of course we’ll let you know that the energy you spent could’ve been better spent.
But yeah, accusing people of cult-like behaviors and flippantly announcing your departure is not the best attitude to have, in conversation as well as in trying to get help.
Now, if you want to change your mind, you can post in the appropriate forums, and I’m sure there will be plenty of people willing to help.
Sigh. At the risk of fouling this up even worse… @Synth, canlin05 was not the person Lunk was responding to; they just popped in to comment on Lunk’s style of commenting to EdgarO–who was responding to the OP’s (7th7andwich) decision to bail on Scrivener (because it didn’t work as they’d thought it would and wanted it to), and agreeing with them. It was the OP who introduced the suggestion of cult-like behavior.
EdgarO just popped in to say that he had a problem that he felt made Scrivener unusable for his purposes, to diss a bit, and to announce that he was moving on–without ever asking to see whether it was possible to do what he wanted, or even fully explaining the problem. Lunk responded a bit snarkily but with a valid point. canlin05 popped in to say they won’t use the program because of perceived 'tude form people on this forum, which makes no sense to me at all.
People who like Scrivener and find it useful for their purposes do sometimes get defensive around here when people post saying that the program doesn’t act like some kind of software which it isn’t. I get that defensiveness. But honestly, it’s the Web, people put on crabby personas when they post sometimes. Or take off their non-crabby personas, whichever. If the program works for you use it. If you have a problem, ask for help and you’ll get help, not 'tude. If you think the program ought to be a different program–there are dating apps for that, I think.