Working with Incopy and Indesign for multiple formats

Question

Hi there,

I'm a designer and have just started to work with Incopy, but am coming into difficulties when using multiple styles and can't seem to find any advise online, maybe someone here has an idea if I explain my situation?.....

So, I am designing a menu for a restaurant which will be shown in different formats - a digital format for mobile, printed A4 and a printed version to go in a frame.

The goal is to have one text source file in Incopy, and then 3 indesign files with the different formats and type styles. So that whenever there are changes to the menu the text could be updated in Incopy and the change made accross the different indesign files.

I have made the mobile format in Indesign with paragraph and character styles. Then made the Incopy assignment from there and added the menu sections as stories.

The problem I need help with is when I opened a new indesign document and placed the ICML file, when I adjust the character styles this then changes the formatting in the other document where I don't want it to change.

Can anyone tell me where Im going wrong and whats the best way to approach this?

Thanks so much

BobLevine · Answer

If I understand you want one source file but you want it for use in several InDesign files with different looks.

If that's the case, you'll need to define the styles differently in the various InDesign files but they must be named identically.

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