From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows

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Creating new InCopy documents

Creating new InCopy documents

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Creating new InCopy documents

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So far everything we have done in InCopy has been in the context of an InDesign layout or assignments with workflow stories, but InCopy can stand on its own two feet, you know all by itself, without the help of InDesign as a standalone word processor and when we work with InCopy in that way we call it in standalone mode. So you can just go ahead and create a new file in InCopy from scratch. Let's go ahead and do that. I will start up InCopy, go to the File menu and choose New. Or press Ctrl+N or Command+N. We have a little New Document dialog box that's asking us for some settings, some attributes. First of all, do we want this new document to be set up in Facing Pages or not? I think in most cases you don't want it in Facing Pages. I mean why would you care if you know page 2 faces page 3 and so on. That's an InDesign thing so I usually turn that off. Now notice that we don't have any settings here for margin like you would in InDesign. There is really no concept of a margin in…

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