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Applying styles for copyfit

Applying styles for copyfit

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Applying styles for copyfit

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You can use InCopy not just to edit existing text or to bring in text or to write text, but to format it as well, and this is a new thing in many workflows because usually if you're in Microsoft Word, though you might be applying formatting, you know that the designers are going to have to reapply it or maybe you're accustomed to whatever a lot of editors called tagging where you would just prepend like a little blurb like caption, sidebar, body, title, before your text inside Word, and then the designers would need to select that, delete it, and then apply the correct styles. All that kind of work is out of the window with InCopy. You can just as easily apply formatting in InCopy as the designers. In fact, it's easier because it's not your responsibility to build the paragraph styles and character styles. That's up to the designers. When you open up a layout, you do have the styles available to you that the designers saved with the layout. Go to the Paragraph Styles panel in the…

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