My Menu for adding Notes is greyed out and I cannot add any notes.

[pauls7902816]

My Incopy and Indesign  Menu for adding Notes is greyed out and I cannot add any notes. I have tried looking for tutorials and cannot work out why. Maybe its something to do with my export settings? 

menu greyed out

[BobLevine · Accepted solution]

The screen capture is impossible to read. Is the story you're attempting to add a note to checked out?

[pauls7902816]

Thanks for responding i have worked it out now.

Basically to be able to add a note at all you need to check in the storie fromthe assignment. 

Was pulling hair our trying to work that one out 🙂

Now i need to work out how the track changes works 

[BobLevine]

May I strongly suggest some type of training? If this is tripping you up, you're going to be doomed.
Anne-Marie Concepcion's courses on LinkedIn Learning will definitely get you started.

[pauls7902816]

I will indeed look into it thanks for the advice.

[katherine.bellamy]

I am having the same issue with Notes being greyed out and no option to create a note. I am working on a document that only I have access to - it isn't a shared document. Is this why I cannot create notes? I want to be able to have information off to the side to use later if I need to but not have it published in my current document.

[BobLevine]

You can only add notes to a checked out story.

[katherine.bellamy]

Thank you for the fast response. Is there a way to have some kind of "notes" off to the side in InDesign that won't show up in my published document? I am happy to watch a tutorial if there is one.

[BobLevine]

Sure. Open it in InDesign and put the text on the pasteboard.