Let’s take a closer look at “Scrivenings” mode. The whole point of Scrivener is to make working on a long text easier by allowing you to break it up into smaller pieces, but you will often want to see how those smaller pieces fit into the greater whole. This is what Scrivenings mode lets you do.
There are two ways of entering Scrivenings mode:
	1.	You can select a folder or container in the binder that contains text subdocuments, and use Scrivenings mode to view all of the documents inside the folder (including the folder itself, if it has text associated with it) as though they were one long document.
	2.	You can select arbitrary documents in the binder and view them as though they were a single document.
We already did (1) in Step 7, so let’s try viewing arbitrary documents this time. Once you’ve finished reading this paragraph, click on “START HERE” at the top of the binder and then, holding down the Ctrl key, click on “Step 7: Changing Editor Views” and “Step 11: Scrivenings”, so that all three documents get selected. Once that’s done, ensure that the stack of papers is selected in the “Group Mode” control in the toolbar, and then scroll down towards the bottom of the text that gets loaded into in this editor and look for the pink highlighting below—do that now.

Back here yet?

Do you see what just happened? “Scrivenings” temporarily combines the selected documents into a single text. You can select non-contiguous documents or you can choose to view and edit the contents of a folder or group. If you were writing a novel, you could therefore write each scene of a chapter in isolation and then view and edit the whole chapter as though it were a single document using Scrivenings; or you might run a search on a particular character and view the results as one long text so that you can see how the storyline for that character pans out in isolation.
So that you can see where one document ends and the next begins, there is a horizontal dashed dividing line between sections.
The Inspector displays information about the chunk of text you are currently editing.
An important point to note about Scrivenings is that you cannot make textual edits across the individual document boundaries, so if you try to select a range of text that spans more than one document block and try to edit it, you will not be able to.

Now it’s time to click on “Step 12”...