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Scrivener assigns a different colour to each, so you can easily identify which particular subset of documents you are working on: the whole manuscript (ie the Binder) or one of the subsets (ie a collection). You can create many collections for a single project. (More, on the other ways, will feature in a subsequent post.) What is a collection? A collection is effectively a subset of the Binder documents, which can be created in a number of ways including via a Project search. You can then set aside time to work on this collection, without reference to the rest of the manuscript. Having done a Project search, it makes sense to save the found documents as a collection.

Replacing Sue with Sandra – with the Case Sensitive option ticked – is less likely to introduce nonsense text to your manuscript.

Without the Case Sensitive option ticked, the character string sue in other words such as issue would be counted as a match.

So, a Whole Word search on Harry won’t consider Harry’s to be a match.Īpplying the Case Sensitive option can be helpful if you are planning, for example, to change Sue to Sandra.

With Whole Word searching, you’ll only be presented with documents which contain the whole word, not variations on it.

If you have used a variety of terms but want to review, for example, occasions when characters eat or drink, set the Any Word option and enter as your search key, for example breakfast coffee tea dinner dessert beer.

Then, All Words will select only those scenes where both characters are mentioned.

If you are looking for scenes which involve two or more characters, you could list their names as your search key: Angela Jack.

You can refine this further by also ticking Case Sensitive (from the lower Options section).

The Exact phrase option means just that: a total match.

Setting the operator allows you to narrow or widen a search. So, if you want to search within more than one of these options, select All. ‘All’ is the default but you can be more specific and focus on one (only one!) of the others listed: Title, Text, Notes, Synopsis, Keywords, Label, Status, Custom Meta-Data.

More on that in a moment! Project search options: Search in It then also offers some additional Options, and the opportunity to save the search as a collection. While the default Project search options are All (Exact Phrase) – and Search “Included” Documents, Scrivener allows great flexibility in two different ways:

#SCRIVENER WINDOWS PROJECT RENAME 2017 SERIES#

In this series of posts, I’ll be demonstrating all the search tools, and the various search options using the first draft of one of my NaNoWriMo novels: Safari Supper.įor a live demonstration, book a Simply Scrivener Special. Then, in this post, I focused on the Project search, how it and Project Replace works and why you might want to use this Scrivener tool. In a previous blog post, I gave an overview of these three tools by way of an introduction. Format searches find particular types of text – text that has been formatted in a particular way, eg annotations.Document searches are confined to the selected document(s).Project searches allow you to find instances of particular words or phrases within the whole project.Recall that the Project search is one of three types of search tool available in Scrivener. In particular, at all the Project search options – and taking a first peek at collections, and how you might incorporate them into your editing regime. In this post, we’re looking more carefully at the Project search.