Chapter Three. Editing and Formatting Text

Now that you're familiar with the InCopy interface and understand how to create, import, and open InCopy documents, it's time to start editing text. That's the whole reason you're using InCopy, right?

Before we start, we want to share a true story that exposes the problems that can arise if you don't take advantage of powerful software features that are right under your nose. Adam was working recently with a large magazine publisher (the guilty party will remained unnamed) who had some questions about adding InCopy to their InDesign workflow. The goal of the conference call was to find ways to automate the publishing workflow, and as the conversation developed it became obvious that mapping text styles would save a lot of time and manual labor. Adam asked the customer to open one of their latest publications in InDesign and tell him what was in the Paragraph Styles and Character Styles palettes. The response? "Nothing."

That's right, this large publisher was using InDesign to create magazines without using a single text style. They were obviously getting their work done, but they weren't working efficiently. We can only imagine how much time had been wasted and how many formatting inconsistencies must have appeared in their publications. Read this chapter to save yourself from similar pain and suffering!