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065 Customizing the story editor preferences

065 Customizing the story editor preferences - InDesign Tutorial

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065 Customizing the story editor preferences

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Often after you float in a really long story into an InDesign document and you've applied a lot of formatting to it, I am zooming in here so we can see this, you need to do some editing to it. And sometimes it's just too much of a pain to edit wallets in place right here in the layout. You've short lines and the layout is constantly shifting left and right, and you're constantly having to drag over and find where the new places where you need to edit. In those cases, you want to use the Story Editor. A lot of people don't even know that the Story Editor exists, and briefly it is another window, another alternative view of the contents of a story, and a story is the contents of a single text frame. So here if I select all with Command+A or Ctrl+A, that's single-story. If I select here Command+A or Ctrl+A, select all, that's a single story. But in a story like this that's threaded from frame to frame, you can see I've turned on Show Text Threads so you can see the story continues from…

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