Adobe InCopy

Course Overview

This course is structured to demontrate the workflow between InCopy and InDesign for Editors and designers. You get a comprehensive Alpha course manual for future reference.

Delivery

Classroom

Duration

1 day (9am - 4.30pm)

Locations

• Public Schedule - Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney
• Group Bookings - All States and Territories across Australia

Prerequisites

Previous experience using applications on a PC or Macintosh is an essential prerequisite for this course.
 

Course Outline

Topic 1 The InCopy Interface

• Topic Objectives
• The InCopy work area
• Working with toolbars
• Working with palettes
• 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
• 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
• 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 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

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 package (FREE at course registration where available, see our SPECIALS)
• After course support, unlimited HELP DESK (via email, to reinforce the learning)
• Training guarantee
• FREE repeat of public course within 6 months (where required, and on same version), see terms & conditions