In your toolbar up the top, there's a drop-down menu marked 'Script', click on that. Your first tab is 'Edit Title Page'. Open her up and away you go.

I used to use Celtx all the time, until I upgraded to Final Draft. But this is still a good program for the money-conscious or those who just want something smaller and simpler to use. It's a good program, especially for a freebie.


Matt.

Yes, I downloaded it the other day. Free and very easy to use. I love it so far.

Quoted from chism In your toolbar up the top, there's a drop-down menu marked 'Script', click on that. Your first tab is 'Edit Title Page'. Open her up and away you go. Matt.

Thanks Matt. I found it and filled it in. However, when I open the folder it still opens straight on to the first page of the script, not the title page. What I want to do is open the folder so the first page I see is the title page.  

I'm just worried that if I submit it to Simply Scripts my script won't have a title page; it'll just open on to page one of the story.

When you open the script in Celtx it won't show you the title page.

Export the script to PDF (you'll have to do this to submit anyway) then open it up.  The title page will be there.

I'm all sorted now. It looks good in PDF format.

Thanks Mike.      

Another way to export to PDF is print them using PDF creator soft as the printer. But you must print the title separately and put it together later.

This looks like a great Piece of software. I love the Schedule feature.

I wish you could EXPORT a PDF locally as well as an RTF file. I'm not sure I will replace Final Draft, but it is a nice
piece of software especially if you don't want to shell out the cash!

Apologies if this has been covered in a past thread. I am new to the boards. I have never written a screenplay but (like I assume most people here) I am interested in giving it a shot.

My question concerns screenwriting software: Is it necessary? Does it make formatting a script a lot easier? Or are most programs nothing but glorified word processing programs?

I realize that all this is moot if the story is crap (or perhaps not considering the number of crap scripts that get produced each year, ha ha), but I figure I might be willing to make the investment if it might make the task of actually putting a script together much easier.

Thanks in advance.

While not necessary it sure does help a lot.

It means that you can concentrate on the story without having to worry about formatting it all correctly as it is all handled for you. This fact plus another one (being there are many decent free ones out there waiting to be downloaded...CELTX for example) it is highly shocking that I still see so many badly formatted scripts on here.

But I think I answered your question but just to be safe

It is not necessary but it will make the task of actually putting a script together much easier.

It won't make you a better writer.  Just a faster writer.

All that this software does is set margins.  It won't help you with formatting, character development or storytelling.  All this is up to you.


Phil

Hi Darren,

Thanks for the response. Funny thing, I downloaded Celtx about two minutes before I got your message!

Hope all is well in Merry Olde England!

Dogglebe,

Yes, as I addressed in my original post, I realize that the best script software in the world won't make up for a bad story, lame characters, etc. My question was simply whether or not software makes the act of getting it physically put together much easier.

Are you saying that Celtx is not really up to par compared to some other screenplay software? I just downloaded it...

I recently got Final Draft on a thirty day trial, and I while ago it ran out. So my question is, how do you format a script on word?

There's a thread floating around here somewhere with where to set the tabs in word, but if you liked FD while you were using the trial mode, you may want to give Celtx a try.  It's a free program, pretty user friendly, and I hear somewhat similar to FD.

You can get it at http://www.celtx.com