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Keep your hands on the keyboard and your mind in

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the scene. These small writing tools help you keep moving.

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As soon as you type the first letters of a

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name in a character paragraph, a small list with matching

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characters from your screenplay appears. The same happens in scene

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headings with locations and times of day, and with transitions.

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With the arrow keys you choose a suggestion, with Enter

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or Tab you accept it, with Escape you close the

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list and simply keep writing. Federio Dramatize recognises some patterns

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while you type. A line starting with INT. or EXT.

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Select a word or passage and press Command or Control

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plus B for bold, Command or Control plus I for

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italic, Command or Control plus U for underline or Command

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or Control plus Shift plus X for strikethrough. The same

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commands are in the Format menu. These character styles change

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only the look of individual words; the paragraph type stays

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as it is. Federio Dramatize distributes the text over the

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pages itself. Sometimes a section should nevertheless start on a

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new page, for example a new act. Put the cursor

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at the spot and choose Format, then Insert Page Break

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or press Command or Control plus Shift plus Enter. A

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right-click in the text opens a menu with what you

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need most often at that spot: cut, copy, paste, the

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seven paragraph types, the highlight colours and “Add Note”. On

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a misspelt word the correction suggestions are at the very

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top. Which entries appear depends on whether text is selected

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and whether the project is read-only. Above the page is

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a ruler in centimetres and inches. The blue triangles show

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the left and right indent of the paragraph type the

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cursor is in, that is, where dialogue, character name or

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action begin and end. Normally you need not touch this;

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the values follow the industry standard. Try these tools on

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a copy of your screenplay. Keep what helps your writing,

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and return to the guide whenever you need the details.