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The Highland Philosophy

A quick overview of Highland’s interface and tools to help get you writing.

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Writing a Screenplay in Highland

From title page to fade out, see how to format common script elements.

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Advanced Formatting and Features

Tips and techniques to get the most out of Highland’s powerful features.

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Knowledge Base Articles

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  • Get started in 30 seconds
    Create a new document in Highland. Select the New button …
  • Trouble Upgrading?
    Uninstall Highland 2 (Drag the app from the Applications folder …
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
    Most commands in Highland can be done with keyboard shortcuts. …
  • What are Highland’s system requirements?
    Highland requires macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) or greater, and a …

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Formatting

  • Links
    Highland offers two different types of URL links for your …
  • Markers
    Bookmark a place in your document with {{%m}} or Tools …
  • Title Pages
    The Standard Way Highland will do the work for you …
  • Changing Auto-Complete Suggestions
    When Highland 2 suggests Character or Location names while you …

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Sidebar

  • Making a Distraction-Free Writing Space
    If you want to cut out everything else and only …
  • Sidebar
    Highland’s Sidebar is full of powerful tools to keep you …
  • Navigator
    The first panel of Highland’s Sidebar is the Navigator. It …
  • Bin
    The second panel of Highland’s Sidebar is the Bin Think …

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Editor

  • Keyboard Shortcuts
    Most commands in Highland can be done with keyboard shortcuts. …
  • The Editor
    To help you stay focused on writing instead of formatting, …
  • Live Margins
    Live Margins let you see the shape of your script …
  • Themes
    Select the Themes icon from the top right of the …

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Preview

  • PDF Templates
    Highland’s PDF templates are used when you are ready to …
  • Export Options
    Paragraph Numbers & Synopses Include paragraph numbers or synopses (or …
  • Preview
    To help you stay focused on writing and not formatting, …
  • Help! My page count changed!
    If your page count has drastically changed since the last …

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Tools

  • Markers
    Bookmark a place in your document with {{%m}} or Tools …
  • Outlining Tools
    Highland 2 puts tools for outlining your script, blog post, …
  • Gender Analysis
    Highland offers writers a tool to check their work-in-progress for …
  • Write Sprints
    Writing won’t happen without spending time putting down words. Highland …

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