Jump to: Scene Numbers Page Numbers Assigning scene and page numbers to your script is a very important part of the pre-production and production phase of your project because after a certain point page and scene numbers cannot change anymore. The second tip was a great reminder from one of my clients who had also encountered this Final Draft glitch and shared it with me (thanks P.H.!). Learn how to automatically add scene and page numbers in Final Draft 10. The Tipsġ) If you have Final Draft and you do a Find/Replace for a character name - make sure to check the dual dialogue blocks afterwards to see if it worked everywhere.Ģ) It’s always a good idea to rebuild and alphabetize your character list. Any test pilots out there with Final Draft 9 willing to see if a Find/Replace will now change a character name that’s a part of a dual dialogue block Note: I’m referring to the CHARACTER NAME that appears above the dialogue of a character, not the mere mention of a character’s name. FD12 / 11: Go to File > Export Document (Windows) or > Export Script (Mac) FD10 / 9: Go to File > Export Under Save As Type (Windows). Final Draft recently released version 9 of their software. For someone like me, who’s a card-carrying perfectionist, that was cringe-inducing. You can save your Final Draft file as an RTF file, then open it in the other program. I found this out the hard way a while back when a director told me to make sure I had changed all of the names in the next draft. If you’re using Final Draft, and you happen to have dual dialogue (dialogue that’s written side-by-side - used primarily to indicate that two characters are speaking at the same time), for some reason the Find/Replace won’t work. Simple right? In your screenplay editor of choice you simply execute a Find/Replace ( Edit > Find…) for the name. Suppose you need to change a character name in your script.
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