From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows

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Editing and updating files

Editing and updating files

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Editing and updating files

Now I want to talk about what it's like to work in InDesign when you have stories that are part of the workflow and your editors are working in concurrently with you. In order to show you some stories that are checked out by an InCopy user, I'm going to open up this InDesign file in InDesign, but choose not to update the links. So if an editor has edited some of the stories in a layout and you don't have it open, when you open up the document in InDesign, it's going to prompt you to see if you want InDesign to automatically update the editorial changes. Normally, you would. This is the same message that you would get if somebody had modified Photoshop or Illustrator files or something else that you've placed. But in this case, just to show you what it's like if you're working concurrently, I'm going to say don't update the links. All right, so the layout opens up and you can see from the Assignments panel that some stories are checked out and out-of-date. So this icon means that it's…

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