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Sometimes you need the whole story. Sometimes you need one

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quiet page. Choose the view that serves the moment. In

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page view you see real pages with margins, page numbers

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and breaks, exactly as in print. That is the view

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for checking. In continuous view the text runs on without

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page boundaries; it is calmer for writing. In the middle

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of the toolbar are four buttons: Page View, Index Cards,

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Outline and Story Timeline (shortcuts Command or Control plus Alt

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plus 1 to 4). Page view is the text. The

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other three show your screenplay from above, as cards, as

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a list or as a timeline. View, then Split View

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opens, to the right of the text, a second view

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of the same screenplay: either the text once more (“Script

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Reference”) or the index cards. The right half is meant

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for looking things up, say to read while writing scene

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30 what was promised in scene 3. Writing always happens

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on the left. View, then Focus Mode (Command or Control

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plus Shift plus F) hides sidebar, tool palette and bars.

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What remains is the page. The same command brings everything

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back. The sidebar has four tabs: Scenes, Characters, Annotations and

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Revisions. Via Window, then Sidebar Tabs you can show or

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hide each one individually; the contents are kept. The bar

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itself can be dragged wider or narrower at its edge.

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Try these tools on a copy of your screenplay. Keep

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what helps your writing, and return to the guide whenever

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you need the details.