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As an example, if you only wanted to include documents that had the label “No Label,” you’d make the selections as shown in the topmost image, which shows that the document “Title” is the only one that matches that filter. You can select which criteria kind you wish to filter on, and with the third menu what the filter must match. You can choose to include, or to exclude, items that match the filter criteria. Next, you can further filter the documents to include or exclude if you choose, by selecting the “Filter” checkbox and making a few selections in the next three menus. This will produce a compiled output of all the documents without a check in the “Include” column, and none of the documents with a check in that column. If you wish to essentially flip the “Include” column, and exclude the items with “Include” checked, you can select “Excluded documents” instead.
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If you wish to compile only certain sub-parts of the Manuscript, you can select them here.
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First, at the top (in this image, showing “Manuscript”) is the selected group option, which can be changed as shown in this image. Within the Contents pane are some other options. When the compiler runs and comes across any document with this checkbox checked, it will ignore the settings under “Formatting” completely, and print the text only of that document as it is formatted in the Scrivener editor. Finally, the “As-is” column has a series of checkboxes, one for each document in the currently selected group. In this window, there are none of these boxes checked if you were to check the box next to the folder “Chapter” it would insert a page break between the document “Title” and the folder “Chapter” in the compiled output. The “Page Break Before” column has a checkbox for each item in the group if this checkbox is selected there will be a page break inserted in the compiled output before the document selected. The “Title” column shows you the title of each item in the currently selected group, and the icon of the item (Folder, Text, etc.). Any item with its “Include” box checked will be part of the compiled output (although, see a couple of paragraphs down for an exception you can make). The “Include” column shows which documents will be included in the “Compile For:” output. In the center area of the panel is a table with the currently selected group’s items listed, and four columns. On Windows, there is a “Save…” button in the interface, which will save the current settings as the new “default” for this project. You can save the current settings as the “default” for this project by holding the OPTION key on a Mac and clicking the “Compile” button (which changes to read “Save” when the Option key is held down). By default, the entire manuscript is selected until you either save or compile. Let’s get right to it! The Contents option pane permits you to select what parts of your manuscript-or any sub-part of the project, in or out of the manuscript itself-you wish to “Compile For:” the current output type.