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Loading Locations, Character Names or Transitions from Screenwriter scripts

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Frequently a document's Locations (Scene Body Text) and Character Names are not actually in the User Lists, but are accessed from within the document itself.  To make these items available to another document's User Lists, you must first copy them into a User List in their original document.

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Open the document containing the User List items you want to load.

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Under the Format menu, select User Lists...

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Click on the button of the items to copy:

Character Names

Scene Body Text

Transitions

4.

At the bottom left of the screen a Copy from Script button displays.  Click on it and a menu of the unique text items for that element displays.

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Double-click on an item to copy it to the User List.  Click on the Close button when finished.

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Click OK to save the User List and exit editing, or Cancel to discard changes.

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Save the changes to the document's User Lists by saving the document file.

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Now you can load the items you've added to this document's User List into another document.  See Loading User Lists, above.