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Rewriting is where a draft finds its voice. Learn to

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select, search and reshape your text with confidence. Select text

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with the mouse or with Shift and the arrow keys.

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A double-click selects a word, a triple-click a paragraph. Command

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or Control plus X cuts, Command or Control plus C

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copies, Command or Control plus V pastes, Command or Control

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plus A selects the whole screenplay. Command or Control plus

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Z takes back the last change, Command or Control plus

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Shift plus Z restores it; on Windows Control plus Y

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works too. Federio Dramatize remembers many steps, but only as

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long as the project is open. After closing, the undo

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list is empty. Command or Control plus F opens the

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search. Type a word and Federio Dramatize jumps to the

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first hit; “Next” goes to the next one. Three options

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sharpen the search: “Match case” distinguishes Sara from SARA, “Whole

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word” finds “boat” but not “boathouse”, and “Current scene only”

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limits the search to the scene the cursor is in.

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The normal search finds words. The advanced search under Tools,

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then Advanced Screenplay Search finds structures: all dialogues of one

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character, all scene headings with a location, all transitions. You

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choose a scope (all, scenes, dialogue, characters or locations), type

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the search term and get a list of hits in

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which a click jumps to the spot in the text.

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After an import or after a lot of pasting from

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the clipboard, paragraphs may end up in the wrong type:

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a heading as action, a character name as dialogue, an

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empty line in the middle of a scene. Format, then

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Format Assistant goes through the screenplay and shows you each

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conspicuous paragraph with a suggestion. You decide one by one:

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“Fix” applies the suggestion, “Skip” leaves the paragraph, “Back” shows

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the previous finding again. Select several consecutive paragraphs and choose

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Format, then Reformat Selection. You choose a paragraph type, and

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all selected paragraphs get it. This is the fastest way

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to tidy up a pasted block of dialogue or to

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mark a passage as action. Try these tools on a

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

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return to the guide whenever you need the details.