With my workflow process, I often need to select, copy, and paste the contents of a chapter. Therefore:
*Right-click Chapter in Navigator, *
*choose Select Chapter, *
*Shift-Click the beginning of the first line to deselect the Chapter Heading, * CTRL-C to copy.
I need to do the same with Paste on the other end of my edit.
Is there a shortcut key for Select Chapter? That would help a great deal on its own.
Even better for me would be “Select Chapter Contents”, “Copy Chapter Contents”, and “Paste Chapter Contents.”
I imagine that if I had a shortcut for Select Chapter, I could work out the rest of what I want using Keystroke macros.
Select Chapter is a Context Menu Item, but I can’t find a shortcut key in the settings.
Thanks so much!
The reason is that I use Grammarly for some of my proofreading process. The internal analysis doesn’t catch everything I want to. So, when I proofread, I copy a chapter, paste it into Word, use Grammarly, then copy/paste back, reselect the chapter contents, and set the text style back to Body Text.
It is tedious, but it works. I do this for every chapter.
I don’t know of another way to do it.
Thanks, as always, for considering how to help me.
I can’t think of a way to streamline the roundtrip, but one thing that might help: you can keep Papyrus’ Body Text formatting if you export the chapter as a Word .docx file (You can do this by going “File” → “Publish” “Word ‘docx’…”. ) instead of copy-pasting.
And when bringing the chapter back in, you can create a new chapter slot with the Navigator (Right-click → “New Chapter Before/After”), and paste the contents into it.
This doesn’t necessarily make it fewer steps, but might help with formatting or reduce friction elsewhere.
