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Building text macros

Building text macros

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Building text macros

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A lot of Word users get very excited when they go on the Window menu, and they encounter this entry, because they think oh! Cool, text macros. I can use all my Word Macros in InCopy and then no, I'm sorry that's not what it is. Text Macros are more like Word's glossary items. I don't know if you've ever used that that, that can auto expand which are very useful in and of themselves. If you really do want to do some kind of scripting or automation, you definitely are able to do that in InCopy. In fact, they have all video talking about using scripts. They're called script not Text Macros, in that sense in InCopy. But for now, let's look at what Text Macros are. I don't know why they group it with all the other panels here you know like Background Processes, and stuff. I'm going to just detach it out of there and close all the other ones. There we go. And of course, just like any other panel you could include it in your panel dock at the right and save it as a custom workspace if you…

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