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Re: using word for screenwriting

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From: ICH530
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 12:36
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In article <1992Aug19.005727.14877@husc3.harvard.edu>, mirsky1@husc8.harvard.edu
(David Mirsky) says:
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>Hi. I plan to use Word 5 to do some screenwriting. By using style sheets
>and outline mode I have almost all the flexibility that I need.
>However, I would kill for a Word feature that would automatically
>insert character names above dialogue which was split by a page
>break.

This seems simple:  just make each part of dialog a separate Section and
put the name of the character (as it's supposed to look on the top of
the page) in the Header of that Section.

Harald S. Poelchau
Forschungszentrum Juelich (KFA)
Germany
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Subject: Re: using word for screenwriting
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