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Open an existing project

Open an existing project - Scrivener Tutorial

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Open an existing project

- [Instructor] Let's explore four ways to open an existing Scrivener project. First, let's start by opening Scrivener. Like any other program, we'll start by double-clicking the application icon, and please note, I'm working on a beta version of Scrivener. A few things throughout this course may look slightly different than the version on your computer, but regardless of what the icon looks like, you'll want to double-click on it to open up your program. Upon opening Scrivener for the very first time, you will see a start panel. To open an existing file, let's click on Open an Existing File. I'm going to navigate to my Exercise folder to open up Crisis.scriv, and you can always identify a Scrivener project because it ends with a .scriv extension. I will click on it and then click Open. You can also simply double-click on it. And voila. My Crisis project is now open, and now that we're in Scrivener, we also have a second way to open a project. Go to File in the menu bar and click on…

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