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Use the Story Editor

Use the Story Editor - InDesign Tutorial

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Use the Story Editor

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- [Instructor] Let's take a look at how to use the Story Editor in InDesign in preparation for the ACA exam. Here in our file, we have a problem. All four of these text frames are threaded together, which I can see by selecting one of them and going to the View menu and choosing Extras, Show Text Threads. There's supposed to be a second recipe here in these empty frames. So I can see that there's overset text right down here, but I have no idea what's causing it or even if the whole second recipe is in this story. Troubleshooting this is a perfect job for the Story Editor. It displays all the text in the story in a separate window without the formatting you see in the layout. So it can show you overset text and it can also show you the formatting applied to all your paragraphs at a glance. And the Story Editor is also where tracked changes in text appear when you use that feature. To open the Story Editor, I'll choose Edit, Edit in Story Editor. And note that there's a simple keyboard…

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