Introduction to Adobe InCopy

Introduction to Adobe InCopy

Aimed at new Adobe Incopy users, this course covers the essential skills required for creating professional pages with Incopy. Practical projects are used to realistically demonstrate various production scenarios.

Course Material
Course material is provided on an USB memory drive which is compatible with both Apple OSX 10.3 and above and Microsoft® Windows XP® and Windows Vista®.
- Instructional videos,
- Course notes,
- Sample files,
- Completed files,
- A certificate of completion.

Course Duration
Courses start at 9:30 and run until 16:30 with an hour for lunch. Refreshments are provide before the start of the course plus mid morning and mid afternoon.

Follow on courses
The natural progression once this course has been completed are:

• Advanced InCopy
• Introduction to InDesign

Course Syllabus :

Basic concepts

• Whats is InCopy
• Parallel workflow
• Challenges in the new workflow
• Requirements and recommendations

Basic workflow

• Projects and users
• Stories and Frames
• Making stores editable from InDesign
• The Editing workflow
• Checking stories in and out

User Interface

• Three view of a file
• Panels and Toolbars
• Managing panels
• Navigation

Editing Essentials

• The assignment panel
• Editing in layout view
• Editing in story or galley view
• Copy fitting
• Inserting special characters
• Importing text

Useful Tools

• Spell checking
• Language dictionaries
• Thesaurus
• Find and Change
• Auto correct
• Text macros
• The links panel
• Inline notes
• Collaboration with share my screen
• Using built-in scripts

Working Standalone

• Creating new InCopy documents
• Creating templates
• Working with linked documents directly
• Working with Microsoft Word documents.