From the course: Learning Screenwriting with Final Draft 12
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Creating your own macros - Final Draft Tutorial
From the course: Learning Screenwriting with Final Draft 12
Creating your own macros
- [Instructor] Final Draft goes a long way toward lightening your workload by automatically filling in boilerplate text with a feature called Smart Type, and you can go even further by creating your own macros. Each time you create a new character name, location, or time for a scene heading, or a new transition, Final Draft remembers it. The next time you start to type one of these elements, the software offers up your previous creation, so you can pick it with a tap of the Tab or Return key. Final Draft calls this feature Smart Type. You can tinker under the hood of this feature by selecting Smart Type from the document menu. The Lists tab shows you the specific entries that Final Draft has memorized, organized by style element. Here are your character names, your locations, your times of day and so on. In each case, you can delete a particular entry, say, if it was created by accident and is just getting in the way, add…
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