Scrivener
Tutorial
For Microsoft Windows

IMPORTANT NOTE BEFORE WE BEGIN
This tutorial is a Scrivener project which has been provided to help you get started. Once you’ve finished the tutorial, go to File > New Project to begin your own project.

WELCOME TO THE TUTORIAL
Hello, and welcome to Scrivener. I hope you find Scrivener a useful addition to the tools you use for writing. This tutorial is designed to get you up and running as quickly as possible by introducing you to Scrivener’s main features. For further help and a more comprehensive description of all of Scrivener’s features, please refer to the manual, which is available from the Help menu.

Feel free to ask for further assistance—and to report any bugs or problems you find—on the forums:

http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum

WHAT IS SCRIVENER?
Scrivener is aimed at writers of all kinds—novelists, journalists, academics, screenwriters, playwrights—who need to structure a long piece of text while referring to research documents. Scrivener is a ring-binder, a scrapbook, a corkboard, an outliner and text editor all rolled into one. It is primarily intended to be a first draft tool—although it is possible to complete a project that requires only basic formatting—such as a novel or short story—in Scrivener, often you will want to take your draft to a dedicated word processor or layout program for final formatting. Scrivener is intended to be a kind of “writer’s shed” for those of us who don’t have a spare shed.
This tutorial should take about one to two hours to complete and will give you a good idea about the sorts of things Scrivener can do, and whether or not it is the tool for you. By the time you have completed this tutorial, you should have a good grasp of how to start using Scrivener for your own projects, and you will be able to learn other features as you need them. So, without further ado, click on “Step 1: Beginnings” in the list on the left to begin.

Note: British spelling used throughout this tutorial.