From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows

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Using inline notes

Using inline notes

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Using inline notes

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One thing that a lot of editors miss by not being able to mark up paper proofs when they move to the InCopy workflow is the ability to attach little notes to the printouts, to let each other and to let the designer know some additional information or what the editor would really like to see happen here, or you know kind of changes that have nothing to do with the actual live text or content. Actually there's a way to do that in InCopy and in InDesign and that is through the use of Inline note. It's kind of related to comments in Word or comments in Acrobat. It's the ability to add your own language in a hidden note and never worry that it will get printed or take up space in the layout. The only other people that can read the notes are people who open up the Layout or Story in InDesign, or InCopy. So let's see how you add notes and how you work with them. In your document, you check out a story, and you can only add a note by the way to a checked out story. You can't add a note to say…

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