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Inserting images into the story

Inserting images into the story

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Inserting images into the story

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When you're working with text in InCopy in the text frame that you have checked out, you can of course add your own text by typing but you can also add your own images. It works exactly the same as in Microsoft Word. In Word you can go to the Insert Picture command. You can do the same thing in InCopy. The image comes in as what's called an anchored image ,meaning that it floats with the text. It's kind of like half character, half image. So you can't actually drag out an image text frame anywhere you like on the page, but if you have a story that needs to have say a little icon or bug or even like somebody's headshot within the article and it's okay for the image to move as the article is edited, you can do that yourself right here in InCopy. So let's try that. I've checked out the sidebar text frame in this Joshua Tree article. I am going to zoom in a little bit with Command+Plus or Ctrl+Plus so we can see what we're doing and I think I'll also turn on hidden characters by clicking…

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