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Tech Tips: Beat Board vs Index Cards

March 12, 2018

We get this question quite a bit: When should a writer use the Beat Board and when should he or she use the Index Cards?

Tech Tips: Go To

January 26, 2018

In this crazy, hectic, fast-paced world of ours, shouldn’t we remember to maybe go a little slower sometimes, not get there quite so fast, enjoy the journey a bit more, take the time to stop and smell something or another?

Color My World

January 19, 2018

If your eyes are starting to bleed because you’ve been staring at a stark white screen covered with little black letters all night, you pretty much have two options. The first, and your mother/spouse/roommate will agree, is go to bed already, for Pet...

Tech Tips: The Format Assistant

January 5, 2018

Congratulations! You finally finished your script and like a proud but nervous parent, you’re now ready to send it off into the world!

Tech Tips: Customizing a Print Job in Final Draft

December 22, 2017

Going to File > Print > Print (Mac) or > OK (Windows) prints the full script with an option to include or exclude the title page. If you need to output a particular subset of the entire document, use the additional commands at the bottom of ...

Tech Tips: Creating Easy Access to Final Draft

December 1, 2017

After you install Final Draft, it’s easy to set up your computer so that you can open the program quickly.

Tech Tips: The Final Draft Backup Folder

September 16, 2017

In the event that your master script is damaged, lost, or now contains a lot of content that you don’t want, you may need to roll back to a previous version of the script. If you haven’t kept an archive of successive drafts, Final Draft has.

Tech Tips: How to Reformat Paragraphs in Final Draft 10

September 8, 2017

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.