From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows

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Updating stories and designs

Updating stories and designs

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Updating stories and designs

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Okay, boys and girls! We are going to really get into the nitty-gritty of the workflow in this video. I'm going to show you what happens when you check stories out and check them back in, not just what they look like in InDesign and InCopy, but what's happening on the server. Because it's actually pretty simple, but it's illuminating. It will help you understand what's happening when stories develop that little yellow triangle that says they are out of date, or when stories have the pencil with the red slash through it. This is the kind of stuff that you deal with everyday when you're working with InDesign and InCopy. So what's happening here is I have the same layout open in both InCopy and InDesign. InCopy on Windows, InDesign on the Mac. Right now, we're in InCopy. We have a bunch of stories in the workflow, but I haven't checked anything out. So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to zoom in to this story with Command+Plus or Ctrl+Plus and we're going to check this story…

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