Script Wizard is a full-service script writing add-in to Microsoft® Word that creates professionally formatted script documents, expedites the writing process with shortcut keys, and prepares scripts for production. The solution supports screenplays, teleplays, stage plays, radio plays, and A/V formats.

Script Wizard Software has been supporting individual writers and production teams for over 35 years. It has been updated to work in the new Office/Microsoft 365 environment, which allows for enhanced collaboration and production office support through it’s integration wtih Teams and other Microsoft solutions.

Supports all script formats
Includes templates for 12 professional script formats, including screenplays, sitcoms, soaps, radio-style scripts, stage plays, 2-column A/V and Story Board formats.

Seamlessly integrated with Word
Scriptwriting Toolbars and menus appear only when Script Wizard files are opened, and disappear when they are closed. Display options are maintained separately from those which the user sets for standard word processing tasks, and you can run as many other add-ons and add-ins as your computer’s working memory will allow.

Speed Keys for writing
Shortcut keys and toolbar buttons make writing and formatting scripts quick and easy. Use a single Ctrl-key combination or click a toolbar button to format sluglines, action, character names and dialogue, parenthetic notes, and transitions. All standard script notations are typed for you. The Shortcut Key Editor stores repeatedly-used character names for writing dialogue; select a key code or a menu toolbar button to insert correctly-formatted character’s name with the cursor ready for you to type their dialogue.

Production Script Page Break Manager
Completely automated script processing utilities prepare your scripts for printing. Script Wizard makes intelligent page breaks for scenes and transitions, and inserts (MORE) and NAME (CONT’D) when dialogue is split across pages. Page break options include Top/Bottom Continueds and global page headers. Automatic and manual page-break processing available.

Scene Number Manager
For features, TV movies and hour episodic: Automatic and Manual scene numbering options let you add (and remove) scene numbers, in either the Left, Right or Both margins, using either conventional or unique numbering schemes. Options to lock numbers, annotate “omitted” scenes and generate A-B scenes, are included. Automated procedures for including Act and Scene numbers in page headers are available for all TV and stage script formats.

 Production Script Revisions
A single hot key creates revised page headers and makes “A” pages as needed. Mark Change symbols (revision bar) can be placed in either the left or right page margins, revised text can be set off from old with bold, italics, underlining or double-underlining, Scene numbers are added (A/B), omitted or edited at the touch of a toolbar button.

Scene Report Generator
Scene Report options include standard Scene Reports, Enter a name or location (or any other script reference), and the Excerpt utility will search for and copy all paragraphs which include that text to a separate excerpt file. Page numbers can be included after each paragraph for cross-reference. Use it to review one character’s dialogue or to generate casting ‘sides’. Instant scenarios or act/scene breakdowns are available simply by shifting into Outline view.

Script Imported/Export Options
Script Wizard can import script files written in standalone programs such as Final Draft®, Movie Master®, Scriptware®, and Super Script®. It can also export files to those programs and Scriptor®.

All available in the Editing window of Microsoft Word, the most widely-used word processing software in the world.

PC computer; Windows 10 or later

Microsoft Word 2013 and later; Office/Microsoft 365

Users must have a working knowledge of Microsoft Word to use this add-in successfully. 

Script Wizard Software is a Trusted Publisher

“…the Most versatile script writing program on the market.“

Personal Computers’ (Syndicated Column) July 1996

Writer’s Journal, June 2009

No other MS Word add-on “delivers the outstanding performance” that Script Wizard offers.

Scr(i)pt, February 2004

“…Script Wizard is a powerful add-on for Word…whether you’re writing a screenplay, hour-long teleplay, sitcom, A/V script, radio production or interactive document. Script Wizard includes keyboard commands specifically designed and laid out within Word for whatever kind of script you need to write….”

Moviemaker Magazine, August 2003

“I find Script Wizard to be easier and more intuitive to use than other programs I’ve tried. If I’m collaborating with someone, using e-mails to send revisions back and forth, Script Wizard is seamless. Whenever I use Final Draft, for instance, I run into problems.” (David J. Latt, TV Producer)

“Once I learned the formatting keystrokes, I could fly with this program … It worked flawlessly in my Microsoft Office environment … and in e-mail copies of ‘scripts in progress’ to my clients for review.” (Stan Harris, Advertisements and Industrial Films)

“If you already have Word on a PC and you’re comfortable using it, Script Wizard can add the formatting capability of a stand-alone program to the familiar Word environment. And that may be simpler for you than learning a whole new program.” (Neil Turitz)

Writer’s Digest, April 1997

“It will let you write your scripts in the same word processor you use for everything else, so you won’t have to learn or work with two programs.”

New York Screenwriter Monthly, May 1996

“Script Wizard provides what every screenwriter should be looking for … a script writing program that not only serves their needs today, but provides them room to grow as they join the ranks of the professional writer. No one should have to get used to a stand-alone program later in their career because they couldn’t afford it sooner, particularly since they can get the best of both worlds today at an affordable price.” (Ed Waloga)

Video/Tape World, January 1996

“…idiotproof … really understands the inherent nuances of screenplay writing. If you are working in Word for Windows and are frustrated with futzing around with screenplay formatting, Script Wizard is a powerful tool — smart, intuitive and comprehensive in the ways of the scriptwriting process. But mostly, it’s very simply to run, which is what I like most.”
(Sam Scribner)