Placeholder fields for the header and footer include: Page, Date, Scene, Label, Active Revision and Collated Revisions.
Page
Displays the current page number.
Date
Displays today’s date. The Date field will insert today’s date dynamically; if the Date field is inserted on July 4, on that day the Header will show July 4. When the same script is opened on July 5, the Header will show July 5.
Scene
Displays the current scene number if the scenes have been numbered using the Production > Scene Numbers command. If the scenes have not been numbered, nothing will appear in this location in the Headers on each page.
Label
Contains custom text over a series of pages. Insert a Label placeholder field where appropriate in the Header. See Insert > Label for more information.
Active Revision
Contains the name of the active revision set.
Collated Revisions
Contains the name of the Revision Set active when changes were last made to this page.
Example: On Monday, the writing staff was on the Pink revision set and Page 10 was edited. "Pink Revised" will appear at the top of Page 10. On Tuesday the writing staff moved to the Yellow revision set and Page 10 was edited again. "Yellow Revised" will now appear at the top of Page 10.
File Name
Displays the name of the document.
To position a placeholder field in the header or footer text area, place the cursor in the editing window under the appropriate Tab stop and click the appropriate button.
The placeholder field appears at the cursor position. For example, this setup…
…produces this header on Page 2:
To remove an unwanted placeholder field, click on it once to select it and press Delete on the keyboard.