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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So moving into the brave new world of InDesign and InCopy workflow you might find yourself missing some analog things like little sticky paper notes that you could have attach to proofs as they wind their way around the department. Well actually InDesign and InCopy have an electronic way of attaching a sticky note to a story and it's called, surprisingly enough, notes. So let me show you how you work with notes in InDesign. And all the notes that you add to your layout in InDesign can be read by the InCopy user and in fact this layout has some notes that the InCopy user added that we'll take a look at later on in the video. The Notes menu in CS5 is actually sort of hidden. You have to go under the Type menu and go down here to Notes. So it's right above Track Changes. And right now everything is grayed out because the only place that you can add a note is inside of a text frame with the Type tool. So we click with the Type tool inside of the text frame, let's say right after the word…

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