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069 Ten uses of the Story Editor

069 Ten uses of the Story Editor - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

069 Ten uses of the Story Editor

If you read the InDesign Secrets blog or listen to our podcast, you probably know that David and I frequently refer to the Story Editor in InDesign, but I thought I'd do one video just dedicated to all the different ways that you might want to use the Story Editor. Let me give you a quick review of what the Story Editor is all about. It is another view of a particular story. So if you click inside of a story, the contents of a text frame, and you go to Edit > Edit in Story Editor, you'll see the contents of that text frame in another window, and any changes that you make here--if you say Each seminar--automatically gets updated in the layout. So it's just another way to edit stories, a way that is often simpler than editing in the layout because you do not see the same formatting. You get to choose the type face and the size and the background for this editing window, and you do that in Preferences. So if mine looks a little different than yours, it's because I've already tweaked it a…

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