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From Idea to Script
Bring in a Word document, develop prose beside scenes, and move a treatment toward a script while keeping its history.
How-to
Numbered steps to an outcome.
Bring a .docx treatment, outline, idea document, or script into a new Plot project, review the formatting changes, and begin with editable prose or screenplay pages.
Read the answerHow-to · 3 min readChange a Treatment project's destination to a script format, keep its draft lines and history, and decide separately when to convert the text.
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Concepts
What a thing is and why it exists.
Understand the stage beside your writing, choose a mode that suits the draft, and keep prose and scenes together as your story develops.
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Reference
Complete, scannable tables.
Use prose for the story you are still exploring, outlines for beats, and script sections for scenes that are ready to write in screenplay form.
Read the answerReference · 3 min readSee which Word features become editable Plot writing, which changes the import report explains, and what to check before sharing a PDF or screenplay file.
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Troubleshooting
Symptom, cause, fix.
Find the next step when a Word file will not import, the preview changes its formatting, a mode is unavailable, or a return to Treatment is blocked.
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