Reordered (inverted) chapters

[W. Knox Richardson]

I had selected all chapters for a printout. Performed an unnatural act with keys or mouse, and now Chap 1 is at the end, and the end is at the beginning. Any ideas on how to reverse the spell?

[Simon Haynes]

Unless you revert to a recent autobackup, the only other option is to manually drag them back into the correct order.

On Thu, 2 Apr 2026 at 10:47, W. Knox Richardson <wkno...@gmail.com> wrote:

I had selected all chapters for a printout. Performed an unnatural act with keys or mouse, and now Chap 1 is at the end, and the end is at the beginning. Any ideas on how to reverse the spell?

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[W. Knox Richardson]

Thanks for getting back to me on this. I ended up manually reversing the chapter list.  It only took 20 minutes or so. I very much appreciated the help.

[Simon Haynes]

Shame it happened in the first place.

There's an option in the Project menu to lock everything so you cannot drag and drop anywhere, but that's usually for when the novel is finished and published. (Nothing worse than accidentally reversing 2 chapters then publishing a broken version of the novel)

It could still be used while writing the book though, and could be toggled off only when you need it.

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