You'll be up and writing in minutes.

Screenwriter 2000 is so dead-simple to use, that most people are writing within minutes of installing the software.

Tap the key and you're writing a Character Name. Press and you're in dialogue; press it again and you're in action. And that's about all you need to know to be blasting your way through your script without a formatting care in the world.

Intelligent text recognition.

Writing scripts with Screenwriter 2000 is so painless because it knows how to read. Forget complicated keystrokes! Type int. or ext. on any blank line and you're instantly put into a Scene Heading, capitalized and ready to go. Need a Transition, or Shot? Just type it on a blank line, and Screenwriter 2000 will reformat it for you, instantly and automatically. It's that easy.

You're always in complete control.

Screenwriter 2000 lets you work the way you want, offering a huge range of automation from its most basic two key inputting to SmartTab & QuickType, Screenwriter 2000's power interface that can virtually read your mind, and pop up menus with the text items you want, without your even needing to tell it you want them.

QuickType: the ghost in the machine.

Screenwriter 2000 knows script format. With QuickType on, put in a Transition and (since it knows that Scene Headings follow transitions) it will immediately offer you a menu with Initial Scene Heading Text like INT. and EXT. Or press the left parenthesis in Dialogue and it knows to put in a Parenthetical, but press the same key in a Character Name and it knows to offer you instead a menu of Character Extensions. It's so intuitive, it's uncanny.

All of this is probably why Gloria Stern, script doctor author of Do the Write Thing: Making the Transition to Professional says...

"...[it's] like having a partner sitting beside me, anticipating 
my creative needs. It makes screenwriting a joy!"

Get the breaks you want.

Write and edit your script in Screenwriter 2000 and all the page breaks are handled for you, on screen and in real-time. 

And that's with fully automatic (MORE)s and (Cont'd)s, Top and Bottom Scene Continueds, Act/Scene Numbering - whatever you want - all intelligently inserted for you without you needing  to hit a single key. Never again fall into the trap of tailoring your editing to minimize the pain of reformatting, because with Screenwriter 2000 the pain is already gone.

Because coming in at the right length is so vital in film TV scripts, Screenwriter 2000 not only tells you the current page number, but also the total page count. Make an edit anywhere in the script and instantly know how that affects the script's total length. Forget repeatedly going to the last page just to find the length, with Screenwriter 2000, it's always right on screen!

Screenwriter 2000's true Real-Time Pagination means that when you cut, paste or otherwise edit your script, the page breaks and numbering are all instantly updated -- unlike other programs, you'll never see a "Please Wait - Paginating" box, or have to wait for the pagination to catch up with you.

Start with an outstanding word processor.

Screenwriter 2000 isn't just a plain vanilla Word Processor with some script features tacked on; it's an amazing script writing environment that gives you all the power you've come to expect from a full-featured word processor:

• Drag'n'Drop Editing lets you move text around in your script at the speed of thought; and it automatically maintains element integrity, so if you drop a line of action into the middle of a line of dialogue, it will intelligently break the dialogue with a character continued, inserting the action line between the two speeches.
  
• Full Support of the Standard Clipboard gives the program the power to perform Cut and Paste Importing.  This  is the simplest, fastest way to get text from other Windows or Macintosh programs into Screenwriter 2000. Simply cut the text from the other program and paste it into Screenwriter 2000. The text will be pasted into script format while maintaining bold, underlines and italics too!
  
• Undo Support. Didn't want to make that editing change after all? Screenwriter 2000 allows you to change it back with up to twenty levels of Undo, with Redo!
  
• Screenwriter 2000 handles virtually unlimited script length and tiny file sizes (150K for a full 120 page script), making file management a breeze!
  
• Full Mouse Support including right-click menus and wheel support (and see the extras below for our unique PowerPanel too!)
  
• Standard Multiple Document Interface lets you open up to NINE full scripts at once!
  
• Screenwriter 2000's spell check is available in ten languages (110,000+ words in American English) and uses an advanced phonetic algorithm to produce the most accurate suggestions around
  
• Optional On-Screen Underlining of Misspelled Words lets you clean up your script as you type, and offers spelling suggestions when you right-click (or command-click on the Macintosh).
  
• Its Hand-Crafted Thesaurus (80,000 word links) includes slang phrases
  
• Support for bold, underline, italics, strike-out, and full support of foreign characters and true-type fonts.
  
• Automatic Timed Backup with Busy Delay means that it will delay the Timed Backup for up to two minutes until you pause in your typing to present the least interruption to your train of thought possible!
  
• WYSIWYG Print Preview allows you to see exactly how your page is going to look before you print.
  
• User Editible Button Bar allows you to put the features you use most right at your fingertips.

Get the extras you deserve.

Along with the "standard" word processing power are an amazing assortment of innovative and useful features such as:

• Its unique PowerPanel™ interface gives you instant access to vital editing functions with a single click. And our PowerPanel's nine-button layout gives you a far easier item selection than traditional right-click pop-up menus. (Windows version only)
  
• Automatic Pop-Up Menus that let you "build" entire Scene Headings from existing locations for virtually instant text entry.
  
• Title Page Publisher™ makes creating Title Pages as easy as dragging text around on a WYSIWYG display of the Title Page, select fonts, align text alignment and more.
  
• Its Real-Time Spell Checking with auto-typo correction means that typos such as "teh" or "ANd" will automatically be corrected for you... and in the rare case it "corrects" something you didn't want it to?  Simply change it back to what you wanted and the program will even figure out that this is what you truly meant!
  
• Option to Automatically Back-up to Any Removable Drive makes doing backups utterly painless.  Just keep a disk in that drive when you're typing and when you save or exit the script, it will automatically back it up to the designated disk too!
  
• Most powerful Print Options around -- in addition to letting you print a Page or a Range of Pages, Screenwriter 2000 allows you to print highlighted text, Selected Scenes, All of One (or more) Character's Dialogue, lists of Unique Locations, all the Characters in the Script, Scene Lists, Shot Lists, Production Breakdowns and much, much more! 
  
• Even more amazing features listed in the section Power Features.

Learn about Screenwriter 2000's Power Features

What's NEW in Screenwriter 2000

Learn about Screenwriter 2000's Amazing Production Capabilities

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