![]() It’s a good idea to run the Format Assistant a couple of times, in case it missed something (unlikely) or you did (possible) the first time. Click Options and you can choose to have the Format Assistant start a scan before you print or save to PDF. If the Format Assistant finds a problem, it’ll tell you what it is, tell you how it wants to fix it and give you the opportunity to make the correction or skip to the next error. Before you hit that Send button, go to Tools > Format Assistant and have this utility scan the script for several common and easily-missed formatting errors: That’s pretty much all there is to it, so congratulations! You have a properly formatted, finished script and like a proud but nervous parent, you’re now ready to send it off into the world! But wait… you’ve just noticed that on there’s an extra blank line between two action paragraphs, on there’s a blank space before a piece of dialogue and on, there’s a character with no dialogue! Oh, the humanity!įear not, because Final Draft is here to help. This tool highlights a paragraph and when you click the appropriate button, the highlighted text will be reformatted as that paragraph type. Then the next paragraph will be highlighted. Double-click on a script in the Projects view to open it in the Authoring view. The option is disabled when you do not have a script open for editing/authoring. If the Authoring icon is disabled, click on Projects. The element number is displayed at the bottom of the script window when you press and hold down the Command key.įinally, if you have a lot of reformatting to do, go to Tools > Reformat and the Reformat utility will come up. To navigate among the three views, use the corresponding links in the top menu bar. Mac: Press Command + Option + Number of the element to which you'd like to convert the text. The element number is displayed at the bottom of the script window when you press and hold down the Control key. Windows: Press Control + Shift + Number of the element to which you'd like to convert the text. Simply place the blinking cursor in that block of text, there's no need to highlight the entire section. You’re purchasing one license to use a specific version of Final Draft (always the most recent). Sometimes paragraphs in Final Draft are inadvertently misformatted – Action paragraphs mistakenly render as character names, Scene Headings look like Transitions, lines of dialogue look like Parentheticals.įortunately, misformatted text is easy to fix. Price is one of the major issues with Final Draft it normally costs 250 dollars, although at the time of this review it’s on sale for 199 because of the newly released version 12.
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