Scriptation can automatically highlight your characters' names and dialogue so everyone can easily track characters throughout the script.

From the Top Tool Menu, select Highlight:
|| NOTE that if the Highlight icon isn't showing in the Top Menu, click the plus sign on the right side to show additional icons. While there, you can also choose Customize and drag the Highlight icon towards the top to make it a regular part of the Top Menu.

The Auto-Highlight sidebar will come onscreen and with the color picker in each row you can choose which characters you want to color. When you pick a character's color, their highlighting is automatically toggled on and will be visible on the script page. If you want to hide a character's highlighting, just toggle it off.



To assign colors to all of the characters at once, click the 3-dot menu at the upper right and choose All On. To remove all character highlights from the script, choose All Off.

NOTE that some of the following features are only available with our Industry Pro subscription. For more information on upgrading to Industry Pro, click HERE.

To adjust the color presets, click the 3-dot menu at the upper right of the sidebar and choose Color Presets. Here you can click the colored dot to change its color. To reset the color presets to default, click the 3-dot menu at the upper right and choose Reset.

Once you have your characters set with the right colors, you can save the scheme by clicking the Save icon at the upper left of the sidebar. Moving forward, any character who's been assigned a color will, even in other scripts, be associated with that color. This is especially useful for productions with recurring characters.

To edit the colors that have been saved to particular characters, click the 3-dot menu at the upper right and choose Saved Colors, then click the colored dot to change the character's color. To remove a color assignment from a character, select the 3-dot menu at the upper right, choose Delete, click the red circle to the left of the character and then the red square to confirm the deletion. Click OK to return to the previous sidebar.

Options to highlight the both the character name and the dialogue, just the dialogue or just the character name are at the bottom of the sidebar.

What's Next

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Updated on: 18/12/2024