Fade In Professional Screenwriting Software presents a page-layout view of an open document. You can use the normal movement keys to move up, down, left, right, page up, page down, etc.
To jump directly to a particular page or scene in your screenplay, use Edit > Go To to enter the page or scene number you want to go to.
There are also various ways to find things you're looking for. The simplest is Edit > Find to bring up the Find panel. Type the text you're looking for to search the currently open document. Alternatively, you can use Edit > Find and Replace, which gives some extra search options including search direction and the ability to ignore case.
You can also search for the next or previous highlighted text (Format > Highlighting), or note (Document > Notes).
(See Shortcut Keys for a complete list of keyboard shortcuts for moving around.)
The Navigator
The Navigator is a powerful tool for organizing and getting around a script.
Most importantly, the Navigator will allow you to quickly scroll through all Scene Headings in the document using any combination of the arrow keys, scroll bar, and scroll wheel. Hit Enter or double-click an item in the Navigator to jump to that place in the script, or right-click for more options.
Scene Headings can be cut, copied, pasted, dragged and dropped in the Navigator to quickly (re)organize your script. Multiple items in the Navigator can be selected together.
The color-highlighted Navigator item represents the current scene. The currently selected item is outlined in the application's selection color.
Any paragraph can also have synopsis content added to it (using Document > Synopsis > Add Synopsis, or with the appropriate shortcut key. Synopsis content can optionally be shown in the Navigator along with Scene Headings by clicking the Navigator's Show button. (Note that only Scene Headings can be reordered by dragging and dropping in the Navigator.)
The Navigator's show options also enable choosing between showing scene length in eighths of pages (the standard for production script breakdown) and approximate running time, based on an estimated minute per page.
Outlining and Folders
A scene can be dragged beneath a previous scene, turning the previous scene into a folder that contains any nested scenes. Moving a folder will move all the scenes it contains.
For instance, a sequence involving a climactic baseball game made up of a number of scenes might be organized as:
INT. BASEBALL STADIUM - DAY
INT. STANDS - DAY
INT. ANNOUNCER'S BOOTH - DAY
EXT. FIELD - FLASHBACK - NIGHT
(etc.)
If, in the above example, INT. BASEBALL STADIUM - DAY is made into a folder, it will contain the other scenes. Moving the folder will move the sequence as a unit.
When dragging a scene in or out of a folder, the horizontal position of the mouse pointer (i.e., how close to the left edge of the Navigator the dragging point is) will in part determine whether or not the scene is nested within another scene/folder. For instance, dragging the last item in a folder down to the left edge of the Navigator will move it out of the folder, provided that there are no items after/below it in the folder.
To quickly collapse a folder — i.e., bring the scenes it contains up to the same level — right-click on the folder and choose Flatten This Folder. Note that any nested subfolders will have to be flattened separately.
Index Cards
Viewing a documents as index cards instead of the normal editing view (via Document > Index Cards) provides an overview of your screenplay with each scene (beginning with a Scene Heading element) assigned its own index card.
It is easy to scroll through the index cards, jump to a given scene, and move, copy, delete or add scenes using index cards.
You can choose to show either synopsis text or scene text for index cards. Scene headings can be edited by double-clicking on the scene heading. Double-clicking will edit the synopsis text, if shown. Clicking on a card while holding down Control/Command will take you to that scene in the editing view.
You can also change the text size used for index cards by right-clicking.
View Options allows you to control a couple of other things about how index cards are shown, including whether they are organized according to Navigator folders, and whether to use the synopsis color (if any) for the card color.
See Shortcut Keys for more.