Chapter Five. Tracking Text Edits


It seems that no matter how hard we try and how many times we revise our own writing, every time we submit a book chapter or a magazine story to an editor it comes back full of comments and corrections. This back and forth process of writing, editing, and revising can go through several rounds before the content is ready to publish, and it's important to always have a virtual paper trail of the editing process. This is where the track changes features of InCopy help streamline the process, especially when there are multiple writers, editors, and proofreaders involved.

If you edit a story in a simple text editor by adding, deleting, or moving text, the text is altered, but there's no way to keep track of what was edited, when, and by whom. The track changes feature in InCopy maintains a history of all the edits to a story and even lets you revert edits later in the workflow. This makes it easy to track the progress of a story so that everybody involved can easily review the contributions of other team members. The concept of tracking changes will be especially familiar if you've ever used the track changes features in Microsoft Word, but InCopy streamlines the process in a few unique ways. For example, InCopy is smart enough to perform word count and copyfitting calculations while ignoring notes and deleted text. InCopy also makes it easy to manage notes created by multiple users.




The AdobeR InCopyR CS2 Book
The Adobe InCopy CS2 Book
ISBN: 0321337050
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 122

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