User Guide

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User Guide
See also
“To move content between assignments (InDesign)” on page 131
“To create empty assignment files (InDesign)” on page 129
“To simultaneously create assignments and add content (InDesign)” on page 129
To move content between assignments (InDesign)
InDesign users can move content between existing assignments as well as from the Unassigned InCopy Content
section of the Assignments palette. You can also create a new assignment and move content to it.
1 Save the InDesign document.
2 In the Assignments palette, click the arrow to the left of the assignment name to display the contents of the
assignment.
3 Select an item in an assignment.
4 Open the palette menu and do one of the following:
• To move content to an existing assignment, choose Add to Assignment, and then select the desired assignment.
• To create a new assignment as you move content, choose Add to Assignment > New, and then specify options in
the New Assignment dialog box.
5 Choose Update All Assignments from the Assignments palette menu.
If the assignment lists are short, you might prefer dragging content items to and from assignments and the
Unassigned InCopy Content section.
See also
“Assignment file options (InDesign)” on page 130
To export content as separate InCopy files (InDesign)
If your workgroup prefers working with separate files rather than using assignments, you can export InCopy content
using the same method available in InCopy CS. Compared with creating a single assignment file with references to
multiple content files and layout information, this method creates a separate file (.incx) for each text or graphics
frame you specify in the document. To see the context of the content you are editing, you must also open the
associated InDesign document (.indd).
1 In InDesign, create a document with one or more text frames, graphics frames, or placeholder items, and then save
the document.
2 Do either of the following:
• Select the text or graphics frame of a single story, or Shift-click to select multiple frames.
• Click an insertion point in a story, or select some text in a text frame.
3 Choose Edit > InCopy > Export, and then choose one of the following options:
Selection Exports all selected text and graphics frames.
Layer Exports all content on the selected layer.
All Stories Exports every story that has not been exported already.