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Adobe InCopy Course
Summary
Course Aim:
The InCopy/InDesign Workflow course is structured to demonstrate the workflow between InCopy and InDesign for Editors and Designers. You get a comprehensive Alpha course manual for future reference. The course is designed for both editors and designers to attend and interact. The course will also demonstrate the use of additional Third-Party Plug-ins such as the CtrlPublishing suite of plug-ins, to make the workflow more efficient (although not essential).
Course Prerequisites:
Previous experience using applications on a PC or Macintosh is an essential prerequisite for this course. Designers attending this course need to be familiar with InDesign. Editors do not require InDesign experience.
Course Duration:
One day 9:00am – 4:30pm
Classroom courses include:
- Adobe Certified instructors (with min 10 yrs experience)
- Alpha prepared comprehensive coursenotes with tutorials and exercises (updated frequently to reflect industry trends)
- Certificates
- eLearning DVD Package (FREE at course registration where available, see our SPECIALS)
- After course support, unlimited HELP DESK (via email, to reinforce the learning), helpdesk@alphacc.com.au
- Training guarantee
- FREE repeat of public course within 6 months (where required, and on same version), see terms & conditions
Content
Course Content
During this course you will learn about:
Topic 1 The InCopy Interface
- Topic Objectives
- The InCopy work area
- Working with toolbars
- Working with panels
- Panel menus
- Moving panels
- Dock and undock panels
- Customizing the workspace
- Viewing stories
- Switching between Galley, Story, or Layout views
- Using Galley view
- Setting Galley and Story view display preferences
- Using Layout view
- Zooming in or out
- Use power zoom
- Fitting the page, spread or pasteboard in the active window
- Moving through a story
- Moving to another page in Layout view
- Jumping to position markers
- Recovering documents after system failures
- Undoing mistakes
- Setting general preferences
- Setting default settings for all new documents
- Restoring all preferences and default settings
- Topic Summary
- Topic Review
Topic 2 Creating, Opening, Placing, and Importing Documents
- Topic Objectives
- Creating the content entirely in InCopy
- Creating a stand-alone InCopy document
- Managing Document windows
- Opening a stand-alone document
- Changing document settings
- Saving documents
- An overview of file types
- Exporting InCopy documents
- Setting the measurement units
- Setting up a baseline grid
- Showing or hiding the grids
- Using ruler guides
- Adding text
- Placing text
- Document formatting and styles
- Setting Microsoft Word and RTF import option
- Text file import options
- Microsoft Excel import options
- Topic Objectives
- Topic Summary
- Topic Review
Topic 3 Character and Paragraph Formatting
- Topic Objectives
- Selecting text
- Transposing characters
- Applying a font
- Specifying type size
- Specifying leading
- Kerning and tracking
- Vertical and horizontal scaling
- Baseline Shift
- Skewing type
- Superscript and subscript
- Underline and strikethrough
- Small Caps and All Caps
- The Change Case command
- Hidden characters
- Paragraph formatting
- Paragraph alignment
- Indenting paragraphs
- Space above or below paragraphs
- Drop caps
- Hyphenation
- Aligning paragraphs to the baseline grid
- Topic Summary
- Topic Review
Topic 4 Tabs
- Topic Objectives
- Tabs
- Applying tabs
- Tab leaders
- Setting a right indent tab
- Topic Summary
- Topic Review
Topic 5 Bullets and Numbered Lists
- Topic Objectives
- Bullets and numbered lists
- Formatting bulleted and numbered lists
- Adding a bullet character
- Numbered list options
- Paragraph styles with bullets or numbering
- Converting bullets or numbers to text
- Topic Summary
- Topic Review
Topic 6 Hyphenation, Justification and Paragraph Composition
- Topic Objectives
- Hyphenation
- Controlling spacing in justified text
- Paragraph composition
- Topic Summary
- Topic Review
Topic 7 Glyphs, special characters and finding and changing text
- Topic Objectives
- Inserting glyphs
- Using special characters
- Finding and changing text
- Topic Summary
- Topic Review
Topic 8 Paragraph and Characters Styles
- Topic Objectives
- Using styles
- The Paragraph and Character Styles palettes
- Creating styles "by example"
- Applying paragraph and character styles
- Editing styles
- Redefining a style from selected text
- Importing styles from another document
- Clearing style overrides
- Deleting paragraph and character styles
- Topic Summary
- Topic Review
Topic 9 Automating InCopy using Text Macros
- Topic Objectives
- Creating a text macro
- Working with text macros
- Inserting macro text automatically
- Inserting macro text
- Swapping text with macro text
- Topic Summary
- Topic Review
Topic 10 Tracking changes
- Topic Objectives
- Tracking changes
- Turning track changes on
- Showing or hiding changes
- Turning change tracking off
- Displaying change information in the Change Info palette
- Accepting and rejecting changes
- Accepting or rejecting all changes without reviewing
- Setting change-tracking preferences
- Changing the user name and colour
- Topic Summary
- Topic Review
Topic 11 Editorial Notes
- Topic Objectives
- Editorial notes
- The Notes palette
- Using Notes Mode
- Adding a note
- Converting text to a note
- Converting notes to text
- Navigating between notes
- Splitting a note
- Expanding or collapsing notes
- Selecting and opening a note in Layout view
- Working with notes
- Printing and exporting notes
- Setting note preferences
- Topic Summary
- Topic Review
Topic 12 Copyfitting Text
- Topic Objectives
- Copyfitting text
- Customizing Copyfit Info settings
- Editing overset text
- Showing or hiding the depth ruler
- Topic Summary
- Topic Review
Topic 13 Checking spelling and using the Thesaurus palette
- Topic Objectives
- Checking spelling
- Using dynamic spelling
- Automatically correcting spelling
- Adding words to a dictionary
- Creating user dictionaries
- Importing word lists into an InCopy dictionary
- Exporting word lists
- Setting spelling preferences
- Using the thesaurus
- Looking up a word that is visible in the document window
- Looking up a word not visible in the document window
- Looking up a word again
- Inserting a word from the Thesaurus palette
- Topic Summary
- Topic Review
Topic 14 Footnotes
- Topic Objectives
- Creating a footnote
- Changing footnote numbering and layout
- Options for footnote numbering and formatting
- Options for Footnote layout
- Deleting footnotes
- Tips for using footnotes
- Topic Summary
- Topic Review
Topic 15 Tables
- Topic Objectives
- About tables in InCopy
- Creating a table
- Entering text in a table
- Navigating in a table
- Converting text into a table
- Converting a table to text
- Importing Microsoft Office tables
- Selecting cells
- Inserting rows and columns
- Deleting rows and columns
- Merging cells
- Table headers and footers
- Resizing tables
- Applying a border to a table
- Adding stroke and fill colour to cells
- Table and cell styles
- Topic Summary
- Topic Review
Topic 16 Working with Graphics
- Topic Objectives
- Importing graphics
- Placing a graphic in a frame
- Pasting a graphic into a frame
- Creating an inline graphic
- Scaling a graphic
- Fitting a graphic to its frame
- The Links palette
- Replacing and relinking links
- Editing a link
- Topic Summary
- Topic Review
Topic 17 Integrating InCopy and InDesign
- Topic Objectives
- The InCopy and InDesign workflow
- Methods of working on content in InCopy
- Linked documents (icml file)
- Working with multistory files
- Sharing content among users
- An example of a basic workflow
- Setting up user names
- Managed files
- Topic Summary
- Topic Review
Topic 18 Working in InCopy as a designer
- Topic Objectives
- Exporting content from InDesign
- About assignment files
- Creating assignments and adding content (InDesign only)
- Assignment file options (InDesign only)
- Adding content to existing assignments (InDesign only)
- Moving content between assignments (InDesign only)
- Exporting content as separate InCopy files (InDesign only)
- Workflow icons
- The InDesign Assignments palette
- Checking out content in InDesign
- Updating assignment files (InDesign)
- Updating content files
- Removing content from assignments (InDesign)
- Deleting assignments and their contents (InDesign)
- Checking in managed content (InDesign)
- Saving changes (InDesign)
- Topic Summary
- Topic Review
Topic 19 Working in InCopy as an editor
- Topic Objectives
- Opening shared content
- The InCopy Assignments panel
- Workflow icons
- Checking out content in InCopy
- Opening managed files (InCopy)
- Checking in managed content (InCopy)
- Updating content files (InCopy)
- Saving changes (InCopy)
- Updating the InDesign layout (InCopy)
- Topic Summary
- Topic Review
Appendix A Keyboard Shortcuts
Appendix B Customizing InCopy's Keyboard Shortcuts
Appendix C Productive Third Party Plug-ins:
- CtrlCrossTalk
- CtrlCrossTalkID
- CtrlChanges
- CtrlLayers
- For more details see CtrlPublishing at http://www.ctrlpublishing.com
Appendix: Index
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