- HOW TO MANUALLY ATTACH THE WRIGHT WORKS TEMPLATE
- STRIP FORMATTING IS BROKEN
- CAN SCRIPTWRIGHT DO TWO-COLUMN TELEVISION FORMAT?
- CAN SCRIPTWRIGHT BE USED FOR STAGE PLAY FORMAT
- SOMETIMES SCRIPTWRIGHT LEAVES MY DOCUMENT SHOWING WEIRD CHARACTERS AT THE END OF EACH PARAGRAPH OR DOTS BETWEEN LETTERS. WHAT GIVES?
- MY CHARACTER NAMES PRINT IN SHADES OF GRAY, OR I'M PROMPTED TO INSERT THE COLOR CARTRIDGE
- WHENEVER I TYPE "..." THE DOTS SHRINK TO A SINGLE 'ELLIPSIS' CHARACTER
- COURIER NEW IS LIGHT
- SCRIPTWRIGHT HANGS DURING FORMATTING
- CONVERTING A DEMO DOCUMENT
- STEPS TO CORRECT THE BROKEN LINK BETWEEN THE MENU ITEM "CREATE CHARACTER REPORT" AND ITS MACRO
- WHEN I INSERT AN ABBREVIATION, THE PRECEDING SPACE IS DELETED.
- HOW DO I CREATE AN ALL-CAPS LINE, LIKE A SCENE HEADING, BUT NOT. I DON'T WANT IT NUMBERED?
SCRIPTWRIGHT TECHNICAL SUPPORT
The most efficient way to get tech support for ScriptWright is to email the developer:
for Technical questions or support.
Some problems may be related either to your system setup or to various anomalies in how you are using the program. In these cases it is often necessary for the development team to actually take a peek at your document. You may be asked to email mail a copy or an excerpt for examination.
THE FAQ&TOUR.DOC
ScriptWright ships with a document named FAQ&TOUR.DOC. This contains some extremely useful information not contained in the manual.
Before contacting Indelible, Ink. you should read both the FAQ&TOUR.DOC and the notes on this page to see if your question is answered.
SOME MORE FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Manually Attaching a Wright Works Template to an existing document
To manually attached <AppName>.dot (where AppName is BookWright, ScriptWright or PlayWright) to your document, do the following:
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Open the document
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Word 2003 and earlier: Select the Tools submenu, Select Templates and Add-ins
Word 2007: On the Developer Tab, click Document Template -
Click the Attach button
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You will see a listing of templates in the Word template directory.
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Double click on the <AppName> folder
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Select the <AppName>.dot file.
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Click Open (this will return you to the Templates and Add-ins dialog box)
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You should UNCHECK "Automatically Update Document Styles"
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Click OK
CAN SCRIPTWRIGHT DO TWO-COLUMN TELEVISION FORMAT?
No. ScriptWright was designed, by a screenwriter, specifically for one camera feature film writing.SOMETIMES SCRIPTWRIGHT LEAVES MY DOCUMENT SHOWING WEIRD CHARACTERS AT THE END OF EACH PARAGRAPH OR DOTS BETWEEN LETTERS. WHAT GIVES?
These are unprintable characters representing spaces or end of paragraphs.
They can be turned off by pressing Ctrl+Shift+8 (a command that toggles ShowAll), or by selecting WordOptions from the Tools menu, selecting the View Tab and making sure that All and Paragraphs Marks are NOT checked.
WHENEVER I TYPE "..." THE DOTS SHRINK TO A SINGLE 'ELLIPSIS' CHARACTER
Make sure under "AutoFormat as you type" that "symbol characters with symbols" is unchecked.
If this does not correct the problem, then you have an AutoCorrect entry (Microsoft defined one by default) for three periods in a row. You must manually delete this AutoCorrect entry.
In ScirptWright 8, select the Tools menu from the Tools Menu, and AutoCorrect from the fly out menu.
In ScriptWright 6 and 7, select Macro from the Tools menu and type AutoCorrect and select Run.
From the resulting AutoCorrect dialog box, look for an entry for ... and delete it.
COURIER NEW IS LIGHT
By default ScriptWright uses Courier New as it's font. This is because everyone who has Windows 95 has this font installed. But many have complained that this font is "skinnier" than Courier fonts in the past.
The reason for this is that laser printers now do 600 dpi (dots per inch) instead of 300 dpi.
There are three possible ways to darken and thicken the default font in ScriptWright.
Change the Printer proprties
You can first off set your printer to use 300 dpi instead of 600 dpi. You can reach the printer setup dialog either from the Control Panel or from the Print Dialog box.
Change the default font to Courier instead of Courier New
You could try ChangeFonts (under the tools menu) and change the font to Courier (not Courier New) -- which should be the built-in printer font and should be displayed in the list..
Change the default SriptWright font to Courier New Bold instead of Courier New
This will result in the darkest font.
To manual re-define the default Font:
- Select Define Styles from the Format menu
- Select the Normal style from the list at the left
- Click Modify
- Click Add to Template if you want the changes to be saved for all subsequent ScriptWright documents
- Click the Format button, and Font from the resulting drop down menu
- On the Font menu, Select Bold in the Font Style list
- Ok your way back to your document
SCRIPTWRIGHT HANGS DURING FORMATTING
The most common cause for an endless loop when formatting is that the very last paragraph in your document is both blank and formatted as headign 3 (slugline).
You should not have any blank paragraphs in your document. ScriptWright will normally warn you of blank paragraphs and remove them automatically. But some combinations of styles elude detection.
The surest way to make sure you have no blank paragraphs is to do the following:
- select Find from the edit menu
- in the find text box enter ^p^p and click Find. This will take you to any instance of two adjacent paragraph marks.
CREATE CHARACTER REPORT GENERATES AN ERROR
The most common cause here is a blank paragraph of Char style. Make sure you have no blank paragraphs.
CONVERTING A DEMO DOCUMENT
Once you purchase the full ScriptWright package you must manually copy any documents created using the demo.
It's a trivial procedure. Here are the steps.
- 1) open you "demo" document
- 2) create a new, blank ScriptWright document by selecting New from the File menu, and selecting the ScriptWright template (w-script.dot or ScriptWright.dot depending upon your version)
- 3) you can skip creating a title page since your demo document probably already has one
- 4) move to the demo document and choose "select all" from the Edit menu
- 5) hold down the shift key and press the left arrow key to unselect the last paragraph mark
- 6) Select Copy from the Edit menu (this places your demo document in the clipboard)
- 7) move to the new ScriptWright document.
- 8) to make sure it is empty, choose "select all" from the Edit menu and select "cut" from the Edit Menu
- 9) Press the Enter Key once
- 10) Press the left arrow key once
- 11) Select Paste from the Edit menu
WHEN I INSERT AN ABBREVIATION, THE PRECEEDING SPACE IS DELETED.
In Word 6, you must turn of Smart Cut and Paste in the ToolsOptions Edit dialog.
For instance, say you have an abbreviation "a" set to "Ahab" and you type the following:
A word is expanded a<cr>
and it results in:
A word is expanded Ahab
This means you have to turn OFF Smart Cut and Paste.
This problem doesn’t seem to occur in Word 7.
How do I create an all-caps line, like a scene heading, but not. I don't want it numbered?
If you want a "modified scene heading" -- basically a slugline that doesn't get counted in the numbering of scenes, apply the Headline style.
Scene Headings are formatted as Heading level 3. You can create a "fake" scene heading -- for things like FADE IN: or INTERCUT, by creating a paragraph of Headline style.
Headline has the same attributes as heading level 3, but they will not be numbered.
SR-2 BREAKS SCRIPTWRIGHT "REMOVE CURRENT FORMATTING"
Microsoft has just release a Service Release for Office 97. This second release breaks one of ScriptWright's main tools -- the ability to remove formatting from a screenplay.
The details are bizarre: in all previous versions of Word you could search for a style and replace it with nothing. Which is how ScriptWright removes the strings added by formatting.
So: DO NOT INSTALL SR-2 if you are using ScriptWright 8.0.
Resolutions/Workaround
If you have already installed SR-2, it would be a bear to uninstall Word and re-install. So you could just always do formatting on a copy of your screenplay.