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There are two ways to cycle through the available options at each point:

- If you in an empty paragraph, you can hit ENTER to cycle forwards through the choices.

- Wherever you are in a paragraph you can always hit TAB or Shift+TAB, to cycle forwards or backwards through the choices.

You can never cycle into a Note or a Page-Break, these are created only from the context menus or by hitting "[" at the start for a Note.

The available choices depend on the type of the paragraph before, and these are based on the normal standards for spec feature scripts.

Forcing it: you can force the ability to create a particular type by creating a dummy paragraph of a type that can be followed by what you want, creating the following one, then deleting the dummy. So, for Centered, create a Transition, create the Centered after it, then go back and delete the Transition. Fairly clumsy, but it's what there is for right now.

Here are the choices following each paragraph type:

Following a Scene-Heading:
- Action, Character

Following an Action:
- Action, Character, Scene-Heading, Slug/Angle/Misc, Transition

Following a Character:
- Dialogue, Parenthetical

Following a Parenthetical:
- Dialogue (only)

Following Dialogue:
- Character, Action, Scene-Heading, Parenthetical, Slug/Angle/Misc, Transition

Following Slug/Angle/Misc:
- Action, Character, Scene-Heading, Slug/Angle/Misc

Following Transition:
- Scene-Heading, Centered, Action

Following Centered:
- Action, Character, Centered, Transition, Scene-Heading

You can now also pick the paragraph type directly from the right-click context menu, or the second YouMeScript menu.

You can also use the shortcuts ctrl+1...9 or cmd+1...9 to pick the paragraph type.