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Tips for using InCopy with InDesign

Tips for using InCopy with InDesign

From the course: InDesign: Remote Workflows with InCopy, Word, and Google Docs

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Tips for using InCopy with InDesign

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- [Instructor] Okay I want to give you a few tips for a successful InDesign and InCopy workflow. As I mentioned earlier, I've been teaching this workflow to hundreds of different kinds of companies, half remote, half on site. And I use it myself with my own publications, my own team, and I have learned what works and what doesn't work. So first a couple of don'ts and I've already said this once, I'm going to say it again, do not use the assignments workflow, use what I've shown here, which is called a layout workflow. Everybody opens the same layout, okay. If you use an assignment, if you create a new assignment, let's just go here and actually create a new one of ease. Okay, then you get this dialog box and this dialog box makes you think that you have more control over the workflow. And you really don't. This creates a subset of the layout, like a child of the layout. It can only be created in InDesign and the file…

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