I’ve been working on a story in screenplay format and I’ve decided to convert it to a short story. I’d like to know how I can convert the entire project to behave as if I had created it with the Short Story template.
I copied the project and changed the existing scenes to default text styles and that worked well, but at the end of every paragraph, I still get the prompt for screenplay formatting. (e.g. "Scene heading, Action, Character, etc). If it’s not simple to convert to another template, I’d like to at least remove that end of paragraph prompt.
This isn’t a template thing—templates in fact are nothing special, just ways to start out your project and once you’ve done that there is rarely ever a reason to consider “switching”. It sounds like you’ve already done most of what you need to do, the last thing is simply turning off script mode on these files with yellow page icons in the binder. Cmd-8 is the easiest way to do so. You can have a mix of these kinds of files in your project, and in fact can even toggle that mode on and off while writing in a single file if you only periodically want script formatting. So you’ll need to turn them all of individually.