Before you start using InCopy, you should become familiar with the environment in which you will be working. Watch this video to learn what's what in the InCopy interface.
InCopy provides a powerful feature called workspaces that lets you customize your working environment and save your settings for later use. You'll learn how to modify, create, and save workspaces in this video.
One of the first things you need to do before you dive in and start using InCopy is define a username for yourself. In this video, you'll learn how to specify your username in the workflow.
One of the great features of InCopy is the ability to view your file in three separate but distinct views. In this video, you'll learn what these views are and how they work.
Preferences allow you to customize the behavior of InCopy features and the defaults applied to a document. In this video you'll learn how to adjust these settings to your personal taste.
It's important to understand how to work with InCopy documents efficiently. This chapter guides you through several tasks that will help you to understand how to work with documents, from creating a new document to using styles, templates, and tables.
Working with InCopy Documents
The main building block of the InDesign/InCopy workflow is the InCopy document or story. In this video, you'll learn how to create a new InCopy document in which to write your content.
As you progress to a more complex workflow, it will become very important to be able to navigate your document efficiently. In this video, you'll learn how to do just that.
One of the major strengths of InCopy is its extensive and powerful text editing capability. In this video, you'll learn how to format text in your document using InCopy's built-in tools.
Styles lend power and consistency to the formatting process in InCopy. In this video, you'll learn how to create, import, and apply styles to text in your documents.
By using an InCopy template, you can ensure that each document created from the template contains all of the styles and settings for a project. In this video, you'll learn how to create and use templates.
Tables are a great way to display data, and InCopy has powerful formatting controls for working with tables. In this video, you'll learn how to create and edit tables in InCopy.
This chapter shows you how to begin working collaboratively using the InDesign/InCopy workflow. You'll learn how create stories, check stories in and out, track changes, and more.
Collaborating
There are a few pieces of infrastructure you'll need to have in place to use a collaborative InCopy workflow. You'll learn what they are in this video.
One way to initiate the workflow is to create InCopy stories that will be placed into an InDesign layout. In this video, you'll learn how to create InCopy stories for placement into InDesign.
Once stories have been created in InCopy, they need to be placed in the InDesign document. In this video, you'll see how easy it is to place InCopy stories in InDesign.
If you are starting with an InDesign layout, you can export content to stories (InCopy files) for use in InCopy. In this video, you'll open an InDesign layout and export the content to external stories.
Checking stories in and out helps avoid problems in the workflow by making sure only one person is working on a story at a time. You'll see how this process works in this video.
While an InCopy user is editing text content in an InDesign document, the designer may be making visual changes to the layout. In this video, you'll learn how to deal with this situation elegantly.
Assignments allow you to delegate stories to certain users so you can maintain control of who is editing which content. In this video, you'll learn how to create assignments and delegate stories to those assignments.
If you have InCopy users who work remotely without access to your shared volume or server, you can still incorporate them into your collaborative workflow. In this video, you'll learn how to package assignments and send them back and forth via email.
Text isn't the only thing that can be edited in InCopy. An InCopy user can also place images and adjust the cropping and scaling of images, as you'll see in this video.
The Copyfit info bar shows you how many lines over or under you are within a given frame of a layout or assignment. In this video, you'll learn how to edit to fit within a frame.
InCopy and InDesign allow you to track all the text changes made throughout the workflow process. In this video, you'll learn how to enable and use the Track Changes feature.
This chapter looks at some of the built-in tools that can help you work quickly and efficiently in InCopy, including spelling, thesaurus, and find/change features.
Working Faster with Built-In Tools
InCopy has some excellent spelling features including Dynamic Spelling. In addition, the Thesaurus helps you find that replacement word that you just can't think of. You'll see how to use these tools in this video.
InCopy has some incredibly powerful find/change features that will save you tons of time! In this video, you'll learn how to use both the standard find/change feature and GREP.
In this video you'll see how to export your InCopy document to a variety of formats, including PDF. No need to bother the designer, you can do it yourself!
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