From the course: Learning InCopy
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Flow content from Microsoft Word to InCopy - InCopy Tutorial
From the course: Learning InCopy
Flow content from Microsoft Word to InCopy
- [Instructor] It's quite common for content to originate in Microsoft Word. This often occurs when editors need to go back and forth with an author for a period of time until an article has been finalized. Once it's finalized, however, it's ready to move into production and will need to be formatted. Although this could be done by a designer in Adobe InDesign, it might make more sense for an editor to apply basic formatting in InCopy, and then pass it on to the design department. Let's walk through the process of flowing a Word document into Adobe InCopy. Now, I currently have the Word.docx file open on my computer, and this is what you would typically receive from an author. And it might even have some formatting applied to it that they have done inside of Word. Now what I'd like to do is pull this into InCopy so I can apply some more rigid formatting to this. So I'm going to switch over to InCopy, and I'm going to begin by opening up an article template, or InCopy template. So I'm…
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