From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows
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Exporting stories to Word, RTF, and Buzzword
From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows
Exporting stories to Word, RTF, and Buzzword
What are you supposed to do if somebody needs to edit one of these stories and they don't have InCopy? Well, you don't have to go through every single story and select all, copy, and paste into an e-mail or into a Word document. You can easily export stories, directly from InCopy to RTF format, which is Rich Text Format which can be read by Microsoft Word. You can also export stories to Buzzword format. So let's take a look at both of those operations. The first thing you need to do is you need to checkout the story to yourself and then click inside it so that when you export, InCopy knows which story it is that you're talking about. So, let's say that I want to export this little intro.=, Shrubs, Lovely Shrubs. I click inside it, then go to the File menu, choose Export, and then at the bottom of this Export dialog box I choose the format that I want to export it in, and let's take a quick look at what the types are, all right? The very first one is Adobe InDesign Tagged Text, which…
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