InCopy: Introduction for Beginners UK Classes & Lessons (Adobe)

About this class

Adobe InCopy allows journalists, sub editors, editors and designers to communicate effectively when writing, flowing and amending text in Adobe InDesign documents. This course explores InCopy's tight integration with InDesign and covers how to style, edit, flow and update linked text. This course will allow you to work effectively within a collaborative editorial workflow.

Who will the lesson benefit?

This course is intended for anyone wanting to understand how using Adobe InCopy can help editors and designers work more collaboratively and efficiently.

Contents of this class

Introduction

Customising Galley and Story appearance
Working with InCopy and InDesign simultaneously
Understanding Live Edit workflow

Editing and formatting text

Creating, opening, placing and importing documents
Creating and sharing paragraph and character styles
Understanding dynamic spelling
Using special and hidden characters
Working with linked text
Managing dictionaries

Editing and reviewing copy

Hiding, accepting and rejecting changes
Ensuring consistency
Using the Notes and Change Info palettes

Tracking text edits

Specifying the user destination
Working with track changes
Hiding and showing changes
Responding to changes
Working with Notes
Working with embedded metadata
Working with images
Working with tables
Creating and editing footnotes

Understanding the InCopy workflow

LiveEdit workflow plug-ins
Exporting InCopy stories from InDesign
Improving efficiency with assignments
Using Check In and Check Out
Calculating Copyfit
Unlinking InCopy stories
Archiving publications

Workflow scenarios

Design-first workflow
Content workflow
Parallel workflow

InCopy: Introduction for Beginners