Shared layout display for InCopy files

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September 24, 2021
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Hi there. Does anyone know how to make InCopy files on the same InDesign layout display together in the same Layout view, so you can edit all checked out InCopy files in the same Layout view at once? They also appear in one stream in the other views. In my current set-up, each InCopy file has its own Layout view showing just it on the page, which gets annoyign if you are working on, say, 6 stories on one spread.

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BobLevine

Community Expert

I'm not exactly sure what you're even asking here. The entire idea of this workflow is to see the InDesign layout exactly how the designer does. The simplest method to do this is by opening the INDD file in InCopy.

Can you expand a bit on what you're asking for?

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ChrisNSAuthor

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Hi Bob. Thanks for replying. My company tries to keep layout people in InDesign and editors in InCopy, so people can work on the same pages at the same time. I tend to have to stay within InCopy.

If I am working on several InCopy stories on the same InDesign layout, currently they all open as separate files in separate tabs/tiles/windows, which I find pretty annoying. You need to change to a different file to edit the copy in that one, and that time startys to add up.

BUT, in the set-up I was using until a few months back, each InCopy file (as long as they were on the same layout) that I opened would just tack on to the bottom of the previous one in Story or Galley view and make another part of the same page view editable in Layout view. Is there an easy way to make this the defailt way of opening InCopy files, or might it just has been a special extension in my previous system?

BobLevine

Community Expert

It sounds like you're opening the ICML files which you should NEVER do. Just open the INDD file and check out the stories you want to edit. If you need them all, just right click on the top level in the assignment panel which should be unassigned incopy content and check out from there.

>From there, you can move from page to page in the layout and make any edits you need to do. Then check them all back in.

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