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The best tools stay within reach without crowding the page.

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Shape your palette around the way you write. The tool

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palette is the narrow vertical bar at the left edge.

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It floats above the window and can be dragged by

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its grip (the six dots at the top) to any

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spot on the screen, even beside the window. Every icon

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is a tool; hover over it and its name appears.

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Click the icon with the sliders in the palette’s head.

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The palette switches to editing mode: next to every icon

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a small × appears with which you remove it, and

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below a catalogue opens with all 47 tools, sorted into

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four groups: Document, Writing, Revising and Story Planning. A search

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field finds a tool by name. Press Command or Control

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plus K or click “Commands” at the far right of

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the toolbar. A search field appears. Type the first letters

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of a feature, say “comp” for “Compare Drafts”, and the

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list of hits narrows. Two small windows in the Help

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menu sum up the essentials when you do not have

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the guide open: “Quick Guide” explains writing, planning and files

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on one page; “Keyboard Shortcuts” lists the most important key

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combinations. The complete, explained list is at the end of

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this guide. Try these tools on a copy of your

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screenplay. Keep what helps your writing, and return to the

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guide whenever you need the details.