Screenwriting : Final Draft 12 Question by Julia Morizawa

Julia Morizawa

Final Draft 12 Question

Hello! I'm reaching out here because FD tech support was being too complicated. I'm brand new to Final Draft. Been using Movie Magic Screenwriter since 2000. But I made the switch and I can't, for the life of me, figure out how to adjust the settings (or whatever) so that when I type a parenthetical ( in the middle of dialogue for the software to automatically know that (parenthetical) needs to be on a new line. I have to highlight the (parenthetical) and select "Parenthetical" from the drop down menu above every time and it's driving me nuts. This seems like it should be a pretty basic automatic setting but I can't seem to figure it out. Please help! Thank you!!!

Ty Strange

On my Mac I simply hit command + 4 to create parentheticals on a new line. No setting adjustment needed. I'm not sure what the shortcut would be on Windows.

Julia Morizawa

Thanks Ty Strange Yep - can do it on my PC too!!! Solved!

John Ellis

Ctrl4 on Windows.

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