If you are happy to delete whatever the editor suggests, highlight the annotation.Suggested deletions will appear as text (or punctuation marks) within annotations.
Select Format / Revision Mode / Remove Current Revision Color – and this completes the processing of this batch of suggestions, reverting them all to black.
It’s as simple as that! For the author: How to process suggestions made using Revision Mode
To accept all revisions in a single colour, select Format / Revision Mode and the colour you wish to accept.To accept a single suggestion, highlight the coloured text, and select Format / Revision Mode / Remove Revisions.(This is the same as Accept/Reject in TrackChanges.) When the editor returns a project to the author, and author sees what the editor has suggested, it’s decision time: to accept each suggestion, or reject it. For the author: How to remove colouration in Revision Mode And, since the annotations represent text that should/could be deleted, not seeing them is not a problem.Īuth ors may need more time to process all the suggestions marked up and, provided it’s done before final publication, there’s no rush. Within compile, there is an option to ‘Remove annotations’. Notice also that the annotations need not be output. That multi-coloured effect doesn’t matter, yet … When this material is compiled, the coloration shows within the text. This is how the manuscript might look in the Editor: The first time you receive a project, choose red/First Revision Mode.ĭepending on what the author does to the text between times, the net result might be a multi-coloured text, with any deletions (marked as Annotations) enclosed in bubbles.My recommendation is that an editor (developmental or otherwise), selects a colour according to the progress made to date with a project. In Revision Mode, any text (words or punctuation) inserted into a document appears in your chosen revision colour. When you type, text usually appears in black (or whatever other colour you have chosen). Turn Revision Mode off by selecting None.Turn Revision Mode on by selecting one of the five colours: one for each revision: red, blue, green, orange, purple.Scrivener’s Revision Mode is accessed via Format / Revision Mode. For the editor: How does Revision Mode work? No trying to process suggestions visible in Word, when the author needs the master version of their manuscript to remain in Scrivener. This post explains the process for the editor and, then, how the author can respond to the suggestions – all within Scrivener.
Together with Annotations, it replicates the functionality of TrackChanges.Īuthors keen to self-publish will also be delighted if/when editors provide editorial services in Scrivener, instead of the current ‘industry standard’ Word. Revision mode is Scrivener’s TrackChangesĮditors who are Scrivener lovers but using Word and the TrackChanges facility to provide feedback to their clients should be delighted to discover Scrivener’s Revision Mode.