FJ and G
In a previous post we discussed formatting. Someone mentioned that Word has a scriptwriting program (or tools?). I went to MS Word Web site and emailed them. That was a couple weeks ago.
Never heard back from anyone.
So, I got a hold of several formatting books (each is a bit different and there seems to be no standardization). I took the average of all of the formats out there and programmed them into a macro and here's how I made it work.
Open up a MS Word document or make a new one, and follow these steps:
Go to Tools
Click on "Record a Macro"
Give it a name such as Parenthetical, Character, Dialogue, etc. Click OK
Go to Format
Click on Paragraph
Set values of margins and choose center or left, click OK when done.
There's a tiny box on your screen. Click the left side of that box, which stops the recording. That's it.
Here's a shortcut way to access the macro:
Click tools, hit the M key twice. Takes you right to your stored macros. Choose your macro and then select "Run."
Presto, it formats your paragraph. You don't even need to highlight the paragraph. Just have your cursor anywhere in the paragraph or line of text and it does everything right up to the "return."
Very useful tool and glad to share something here with you as I'm usually just asking questions.
Never heard back from anyone.
So, I got a hold of several formatting books (each is a bit different and there seems to be no standardization). I took the average of all of the formats out there and programmed them into a macro and here's how I made it work.
Open up a MS Word document or make a new one, and follow these steps:
Go to Tools
Click on "Record a Macro"
Give it a name such as Parenthetical, Character, Dialogue, etc. Click OK
Go to Format
Click on Paragraph
Set values of margins and choose center or left, click OK when done.
There's a tiny box on your screen. Click the left side of that box, which stops the recording. That's it.
Here's a shortcut way to access the macro:
Click tools, hit the M key twice. Takes you right to your stored macros. Choose your macro and then select "Run."
Presto, it formats your paragraph. You don't even need to highlight the paragraph. Just have your cursor anywhere in the paragraph or line of text and it does everything right up to the "return."
Very useful tool and glad to share something here with you as I'm usually just asking questions.