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Organising Scenes And Using Focus Mode

The scene panel follows the headings in the current document. Focus mode keeps the writing canvas, screenplay toolbar and save status visible while hiding the surrounding workspace.

  1. Open the script document in the writer.
  2. Select a scene in the left scene list to jump to it.
  3. To move the whole scene, drag its handle in that list.
  4. Use the chevron beside a heading to collapse or expand the scene's writing.

Reordering moves the heading and the writing after it up to the next scene heading. On mobile-sized screens, Toggle Scenes and Toggle Documents reveal the side panels; these toggles are not shown at desktop sizes.

Change Scene Numbering

  1. Select the scene number beside its heading; hovering shows the pencil edit cue.
  2. In Edit Scene Number, enter Scene number, such as 8, 8A or 8.1.
  3. Select Renumber all following scenes if you want later custom numbers replaced with the resulting sequence.
  4. Review the preview and select Save Changes.

For a starting number of 8, subsequent scenes become 9, 10, 11 and so on when renumbering is selected. With the option off, later numbers stay as they are. Leave the field blank to use the next number after the preceding scene. The following-scenes option is disabled for the last scene.

Enter Focus Mode

  1. Select Focus mode in the top navigation.
  2. Continue writing with the screenplay toolbar.
  3. Check the top bar for the script name, document, revision and saving status.
  4. Select Exit focus mode, or press Escape, to return.

Review Script Insights

Select Insights to open Script insights. It shows pages, words, scenes, estimated runtime, scene settings and character dialogue information. Dialogue/action comparison uses word counts; character dialogue counts use dialogue blocks. Runtime is an estimate from screenplay length, not a measured performance duration.

Troubleshooting

Renumbering is a writing edit and requires writable access. Undo can reverse the numbering operation during the session. Collapsing a scene changes the working view; expand it again when reviewing the complete writing and layout.