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Using the Story Editor

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Using the Story Editor

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- [Instructor] It's time for me to talk about one of my favorite features in InDesign. It's not really a flashy feature, but it is incredibly helpful to anyone who needs to write or edit text inside InDesign. And that feature is called Story Editor. It's like having a little word processor built right into InDesign. Here, let me show you. I have my magazine file open from the exercise files folder, and I'm going to jump to the first page by clicking this little button way down here in the lower left corner of the document window. That jumps to the first spread. And I want to edit some text in this story up here. But instead of zooming in and trying to find the text, I'm simply going to select the frame itself. And then I'll go to the Edit menu and come down here and choose Edit in Story Editor. Or you could press Command + Y on the Mac or Control + Y in Windows. When I do that, up comes a nice neutral window, just like a text editor. I'm not distracted by colors or drop caps or…

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