While you're rewriting, you may want to cut a scene from your document but not discard it completely. Screenwriter lets you save portions of your document to a new file.
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Select the text. |
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Under the Edit menu, select either Copy To... or Cut To... |
Copy To...—Copies the selected text, leaving it in your document and saving it in a new file.
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New File—Creates a new file, puts the selected information within it, and allows you to name the file before the program saves it. Screenwriter keeps the original document open. To retrieve the new file you must go to File> Open. |
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Existing File—Allows you to copy the selected text to a document that already exists. Choosing this option brings up a dialog box that allows you to navigate to the file that you would like this text to be pasted to. Select the file and click open. Screenwriter pastes the text to the end of the document and closes the file. Your current document will remain open. |
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Scrap File—Creates a new file with the same name as your current document, but at the end will have “-scrap”. You can find this document by going into the Window menu. At the bottom of this menu it lists all the open documents. Simply click on your scrap file and the document will display. If you would like to keep the scrap file simply go to the File menu and click Save. |
Cut to...—Cuts the selected text, removing it from your document and saving it in a new file.
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New File—Removes selected information from the original document, creates a new file, puts the selected information within it, and allows you to name the file before the program saves it. Screenwriter keeps the original document open. To retrieve the new file you must go to File> Open. |
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Existing File—Removes the selected information from the original document and copies it to a document that already exists. Choosing this option brings up a dialog box that allows you to navigate to the file that you would like this text to be pasted to. Select the file and click open. Screenwriter pastes the text to the end of the document and closes the file. Your current document will remain open. |
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Scrap File—Creates a new file with the same name as your current document, but at the end will have “-scrap”. The file that it creates will have the same name of your current document, but at the end will have “-scrap”. You can find this document by going into the Window menu. At the bottom of this menu it lists all the open documents. Simply click on your scrap file and the document will display. If you would like to keep the scrap file simply go to the File menu and click Save. |
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Give the new file a different name. Click on OK to save it. |
If you selected Copy To:, clicking on Cancel discards the new file and leaves your text intact in your original document.
If you selected Cut To:, clicking on Cancel discards the new file and leaves your text on the Clipboard—but removed from your original document. You still need to Save it to another file or Paste it back into your document—otherwise you have deleted the text.
