Author wants to tag and retrieve dialog for a character

Guessed · #1 02-28-2020, 08:12 PM

If you applied paragraph styles to the dialog for each character then you could easily create a series of Tables of Contents to list each character's dialog (optionally including the page where it occurs).

You might even go so far as to associate an outline list level to each character so that you don't need to type the speakers name, just apply the style which includes the characters name as a paragraph prefix. See attached example where you can use Alt-Shift-Left or Right arrow to change between characters.

George Pond · #2 03-01-2020, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Guessed

If you applied paragraph styles to the dialog for each character then you could easily create a series of Tables of Contents to list each character's dialog (optionally including the page where it occurs).

You might even go so far as to associate an outline list level to each character so that you don't need to type the speakers name, just apply the style which includes the characters name as a paragraph prefix. See attached example where you can use Alt-Shift-Left or Right arrow to change between characters.

Thank you for your answer! It will work for me. I don't need to do the list-level thing but creating paragraph styles for each character, then creating a custom TOC is perfect for keeping track of who is saying what kind of thing. The page numbers are useful... and having a TOC with the information makes it easy to jump to that place in the .DOCX and make revisions.
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