Scrivener's own way to Word is Compile, which needs a working Scrivener with a licence. Upload the project instead and get the manuscript as a Word document straight from the project files.
How to convert a Scrivener project to Word
- Compress the
.scrivproject: on a Mac right-click it and choose Compress; on Windows right-click the folder and choose Send to > Compressed (zipped) folder. - Upload the
.zip. The defaults follow Scrivener's own compile: the documents of the Draft (or Manuscript) folder marked Include in Compile, in binder order. - Download the
.docx. It also comes as EPUB and Markdown, and every document on its own.
What the Word document keeps
- Comments as Word comments on the same words, also a comment that runs over two paragraphs. Scrivener's inline annotations become comments too.
- Footnotes, linked and inline, as real Word footnotes numbered by Word.
- Formatting: fonts, sizes, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript, colours, highlights, alignment, indents and line spacing, as in Scrivener's editor.
- Lists, tables and pictures, and links, including links between documents of the binder, which point to the right place when the linked document is in the manuscript.
- Styles: Scrivener 3's paragraph styles become Word styles of the same name, and its Heading styles become Word's headings.
- Structure: folder titles become Heading 1, Heading 2 and so on by their depth in the binder,
with each chapter starting on a new page and
* * *between scenes. All of this can be changed on the page before converting.
Things to know
- Compile settings stay in Scrivener: section layouts, title prefixes such as "Chapter One" and
placeholders like
<$n>are left as you typed them. - The page size and margins come from the project's print settings, where it has them.
- Every document is also delivered on its own, as Word, RTF and Markdown, in a ZIP that keeps the binder's folders, with the notes next to each document.
Results are deleted after 30 minutes.
More about what this tool reads and writes: Scrivener Project Converter.