From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows

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Man does not live by bread alone, and neither does the InCopy user. Sometimes you can't do everything in InCopy. For example, you might be receiving text files from an outside author who doesn't have InCopy. So they have Word, and you need to get that Word text into here, or perhaps in your workflow, you stay in Microsoft Word or some other kind of word processing program for the beginning parts of the workflow, and then as the layout comes together, it is up to the editors to bring that text into the layout. So let's show how you would get text into an InCopy story. First of all, of course, it has to be an InCopy story that you can check out, and you have to have checked it out, as I've checked it out in this example. So in this scenario, the designer has created a text frame for the sidebar, and they've even placed the images and put a little runaround, and you need to bring in the text. Well, you could write from scratch right in here. I am just going to click inside the story and…

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