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Placing new InCopy files

Placing new InCopy files

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Placing new InCopy files

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In the previous video I showed you how to export stories from InDesign to InCopy format, and most likely the stories that you started with, the ones you've exported, you placed there from supplied Word files, right, from incoming Microsoft Word files or may be from copying, pasting from e-mails or something. But I'll tell you that as you and your crew get more comfortable with the workflow, your editors will become inclined to actually write from scratch in InCopy, to use it as the stand-alone word processor instead of Word or to convert the Word documents to InCopy so they can apply some of the styles that are going to be used in the layout or they'll really become enamored of InCopy's GREP Find/Change, or some of those other cool features. If you want to learn more about how to work with stand-alone InCopy files using InCopy as a word processor, you should check out that chapter tile in this video series. But let's assume that you are going to have some native ICML files that are…

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