Review by Michael Kleper, Editor
The Kleper Report on Digital Publishing
Sep/Oct, 2005

Final Draft Version 7.1 (MAC/WIN)
Final Draft Version 7.1 is the industry standard for scriptwriting, used by many Hollywood writers. The program has been used to create many professional movie scripts, television episodes, and stage plays. It is a sophisticated writing tool that automatically paginates and formats work as it is entered, relieving the writer of the clerical burden.

Review by MC Rebbe
July 7, 2005

Final Draft 7 International Edition
...every time I think I’ve spotted something that Final Draft 7 could or should do, I read a little further through the manual and discover that it can and does…which probably explains why it’s the world’s best selling script/play writing/formatting software…

Videomaker.com
Review by Mark Montgomery
July, 2005

Final Draft 7 Scriptwriting Software
The King of Drafts
Are formatting headaches forever gone? Professional scriptwriters and aspiring writers have one of the best tools available at their fingertips with Final Draft 7. The ability to open the program and immediately start writing your script in industry standard formats is Final Draft's bread and butter.

Review by Tom Lassiter
June , 2005

Final Draft 7
...Final Draft 7 streamlines the formatting so you can concentrate on writing rather than text alignment and fonts.

Review by Michael Leppert
June , 2005

Final Draft, 7.1 and Syd Fields Screenwriting Workshop CD Programs 7
...if your 16 year-old is mature enough to be taking college classes, the actual writing CD, Syd Fields' Screenwriting Workshop, should be acceptable.

AboluteWrite.com
Review by Patrick Beltran
November, 2004

Inside the Cover Book Reviews
Ask the Pros: Screenwriting is not your typical screenwriting book. Edited by Howard Meibach (of Hollywoodlitsales.com fame) and writer-director Paul Duran, this book does not attempt to teach you how to write a screenplay – at all. The book is exactly what the subtitle says it is: 101 Questions Answered by Industry Professionals.

Review by Nigel Cooper
October, 2004

Final Draft 7 for Mac and PC
...Scriptwriting requires concentration, your mind needs to be free of any other distractions so your creative juices can flow, Final Draft allows this to happen as it’s interface is clean and uncluttered, add this to the automation of Final Draft and you have a winning formula for writing scripts.

Blogcritics.org
August 11, 2004

Ask the Pros: Screenwriting
Ask the Pros: Screenwriting is a fascinating little book... It asks professionals - writers, agents, managers, producers, readers, and more - a host of "frequently asked questions," and records their answers.

North Orange County
Computer Club
July, 2004
By Robert DeWolf, NOCCC and Daniel DeWolf

Final Draft v.7
Hollywood scriptwriters follow a very strict format, such that anyone who strays from this format isn’t going to be taken seriously. The problem is that this format is so complex, even if you know what it is supposed to look like, it is still difficult to get your script to look correct. Final Draft 7 is the solution to this problem, taking the focus off the formatting, and allowing the writer to concentrate on the important part, the story.

Investor's Business Daily
June 28, 2004

REAL SOLUTIONS
This Firm Is One Friendly Place
Marc Madnick knows that if you’re going to build a successful business, it’s unwise to treat your employees like friends. But he does it anyway.

Script Magazine
June 12, 2004
By John Scott Lewinski

Final Draft 7
Final Draft 7 hit shelves in April, promising a more advanced product that would run even more comfortably on Mac OSX and the most up-to-date Windows machines. The product generally delivers on all accounts while offering fresh features for the veteran Final Draft user to enjoy.

Video Systems
June 1, 2004
By Tom Patrick McAuliffe

Shoot Review — Final Draft 7.0
Popular scriptwriting software makes formatting even easier.
Before you can start any production, you need a good script. In professional film and video production the words and directions need to adhere to the format conventions of the industry. They say that content is king, but if your script is not properly formatted it will have a date with the circular file. For this reason, script formatting can be more important than the story itself. Final Draft 7, the cross-platform scriptwriting software, automatically conforms scripts to industry formatting standards and offers many organizational features.

DingBat Magazine
June, 2004

Final Draft 7
Looking for an easy way to produce a perfectly formatted screenplay? Look no further than Final Draft… it's the number one choice of professional screenwriters. Not only does it format your screenplay in roughly half the time of a standard word processor, but it produces a script in a form that's demanded by most studios and production companies.

Screen Magazine
May 31, 2004
By Dixon Galvez-Searle

FINAL DRAFT VERSION 7.0 USER REVIEW
For writers familiar with screenplay format, Final Draft’s Version 7.0 provides a streamlined and much simpler alternative to word processing programs such as Microsoft Word. The rigid demands of screenplay format are nearly impossible to program into a template in a word processing program, and there are similar difficulties involved in negotiating margins and page breaks within a standard document.