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Editing in Story or Galley view

Editing in Story or Galley view

From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows

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Editing in Story or Galley view

Now let's take a look at how you would edit a layout or an assignment in Story and Galley view. Right now, I'm in Layout view, and usually before I switch views, I like to make a selection of text, because it just helps orient myself in a new view. So, for example, if I just selected this text - it doesn't have to be in a story that you've checked out either, but it does have to be a workflow story, because otherwise they won't be listed there - so I make a selection of text, and then I just click on either Story or Galley. We're going to start with Story. By the way, there are also keyboard shortcuts that can jump you here. You'll see them listed under the View menu. So Ctrl+G or Command+G is Galley view. Then add the Alt or Option key, Alt+Ctrl+G or Option+Command+G to jump to Story view. But I'm just going to click on the Story view. So you see the text is selected. It's at the top of the page. Notice that we have a whole pile of text divided by these gray bars. So what are we…

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