One of the keys to Scrivener is working in sections -- scenes, chapters, parts, whatever you choose to call them. Sometimes you're writing one scene and realise it's actually two. Sometimes it works the other way round. You realise two consecutive scenes need to be combined into one.

There are very simple ways of handling both these scenarios with a simple keystroke. Watch...

We start with a scene we want to split, called Nic and Agata.
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A simple keystroke, or using the Split command under Documents, will break it into two separate documents (with the title of any selected text if you want it or an auto-title otherwise).
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<p style="text-align: left;">Now to do it the other way ro</p>