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Five reasons to use the Story Editor

Five reasons to use the Story Editor

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Five reasons to use the Story Editor

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- [Instructor] Hi, I'm Nigel Ffrench. Welcome to this week's Type Tip, which is all about using the Story Editor in InDesign. Five reasons you should be using the Story Editor. The first of them is that the Story Editor is all about text, it lets you focus on your text, and it lets you edit your text more efficiently than you may be able to do in the Layout view, especially if you're working with a long, continuous text flow. So here, I have a book of over 200 pages and I need to make extensive edits to it. Now, if I'm editing in the Layout view, which, of course, we definitely want to do, but we need to be moving back and forth to the Story Editor as well. So in the Layout view, I'm having to change the page all the time and go back and forth, whereas in the Story Editor, I'll just select the text frame or double-click to insert my type cursor into a text frame and then either press Command or Control + Y or from the Edit menu, choose Edit In Story Editor. So here, I can just scroll…

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