From the course: Learning Screenwriting with Final Draft 12
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What Final Draft can import - Final Draft Tutorial
From the course: Learning Screenwriting with Final Draft 12
What Final Draft can import
- [Speaker] You probably have some stuff you've written in Microsoft word, Apple pages, Google docs, whatever. Just because you're a Final drafter now, doesn't mean you have to retitle that brilliance. Final draft can import it for you. And with version 12, the company has added a giant new feature that makes importing, important. Final draft makes it simple. Which is not to say easy, to import files from another source. Basically, besides Final drafts FDX files, Final draft will read Plain text, period. These are formats called, TXT, Text only, ASCII text or something similar. It's your job, to convert whatever you've gotten to Plain text. So that Final draft can import it. Here's how. Let's say you've written a script in Microsoft Word. Word saves your screenplay, in its proprietary format. Either Doc or Doc X. Neither of which Final draft reads. Under the file menu, choose Save as. Now choose Plain text, and…
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