From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows

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Copyfitting text

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InCopy has a unique feature that you cannot find in InDesign, or even in Microsoft Word, and that is this cool little Copyfit toolbar area right down here. When you click inside of a story, whether or not it's even part of the InCopy workflow, a little toolbar down here will give you a ton of information, right off the bat, and it works regardless of which view you are in. So I've clicked inside of a text frame that is obviously overset because you can see its little Plus symbol indicating there is overset text in this frame. But you can also see it, in fact it will be really hard to miss because you see this big red alert saying, hey! You are over approximately 3 Lines! So there are three more lines of text. Let's actually zoom in here. I'm pressing Command+Plus a few times. Apparently, there is three more lines of text, the width of this frame, that cannot fit. To the left of this Copyfit Progress Info, you have another toolbar that lists how many lines, words, characters, and the…

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