From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows
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Working with assignments in InCopy
From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows
Working with assignments in InCopy
When you're an InCopy user working with an InCopy workflow it's actually a little easier than working with layout based workflows, as long as you remember what it is that you need to open. Here I'm using Windows Explorer and I've navigated to the server. I am going to open up the Project folder and you have to remember you don't open up the InDesign layout. If you do, you just close it. What you want to do is go into the Assignments subfolder and then select the name of the assignment that you want to open. Notice that I'm not doing this from InCopy's File > Open menu, so this is an advantage of using Assignments that I can just double-click on the file that I want to open right from Explorer, because an ICMA file is associated with InCopy. The Assignment file opens up by default in Layout view, because this is what I had set it to in InCopy and it looks just like the Layout except that I am not seeing the rest of the pages of the layout. Now assuming I don't need to see those because…
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