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Old 08-01-2005, 02:47 AM
Little Angel
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I don't have any word perfect templates, but if WP is anything like MSW, you should be able to get your head around style sheets. I made my first set in Word 4 o_O! and you can (or could) like Final Draft (what I use now) set "next style" to a style sheet so:

Scene Heading goes to Action
Action goes to Action
Character goes to Dialogue
Dialogue goes to Character
Paranthetical goes to Character

etc

I also found that search and replace were my friend. When I was writing fast I'd make special search strings like **G for George and **S for sally - or whatever. Something Unique - and then I'd replace them all later with either the Location, the INT/EXT or the character name just to keep things moving fast.

Once style sheets are set up, and the text is imported, you should be able to just click on a paragraph and assign a style. This will take a little bit of time to reformat, but even with 120 p's you should go thru that pretty fast.


OBTW - My guess is that the software you have may prevent exporting formatted text just to prevent you from changing software.
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