Script blocks: Action, Dialogue, Caption, Note and Lyric

The five types

• Action: what happens. The default for anything you type.
• Dialogue: a speaker and their line. The speaker is an element (@mention), so it carries a picture and stays consistent; an extension dropdown adds (V.O.), (O.S.) or (CONT'D).
• Caption: on-screen text such as a title card, super or subtitle.
• Note: a production note, shown on amber. Notes are not read aloud by voice-over and are kept out of the screenplay body.
• Lyric: a sung line with no particular singer. A character who sings is a Dialogue row marked as lyric.

Making and changing blocks

• Enter starts a new Action block. Type / on an empty line to choose Dialogue, Caption, Note or Lyric from the menu.
• Type a name in capitals (or NAME:) on its own line and it becomes a Dialogue row. Pressing Tab on an action line does the same. If you paste text where speaker names are written as plain lines, you'll see Speaker names written as text found.
• The grab handle on the left of any block opens Turn into (Action, Dialogue, Caption, Note, Lyric), Color, Duplicate and Delete; drag it to reorder, or use ⌘ Shift ↑/↓.

Two people speaking at once

On a dialogue row, the / menu offers Speak together: the next dialogue row sits side by side with it (dual dialogue in Final Draft). Unpair splits them; the pair moves as one when you drag.