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Opening Word files in InCopy

Opening Word files in InCopy

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Opening Word files in InCopy

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So far I've shown you how InCopy can open up InDesign layouts and I will be showing you how InCopy can open up assignments. InCopy can open up its own native finals and templates, but there's one more file type that you might find very useful that InCopy can open directly and that is Microsoft Word files, either .DOC or .DOCX. So let's give that a shot. I'm going to go to the File > Open menu and in my exercise file I have this little sidebar for the Joshua Trees article that is a Microsoft Word article. So this scenario is pretty common, I mean you might be working on stories in Word or very often people are sending you content in Word and your workflow might be decided that the editors are responsible for converting the Microsoft Word docs into InCopy docs. And then from there they will either copy and paste or place the checked out story in a layout or assignment or the designer will take that prepped InCopy file from the editor and flow it into layout. So all you need to do is go…

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