Comments on: Threading Text From One Document to Another

By: RokAlashsaR

RokAlashsaR — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:27:56 +0000

Glad to join you guys.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 07:51:19 +0000

I LOVE YOU RUSSELL ! You ARE my HERO!

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:42:35 +0000

@christine: Yes, inline and anchored objects are part of the story, so they “flow.” (Remember, this is a hack, a trick… it’s not really flowing from one doc to another. It just is showing different parts of the story in different docs.)

By: christine Minnich

christine Minnich — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:35:45 +0000

Does this work with in-line graphics or anchored objects? Do they flow with the text from one document to the other?

By: Darla in Montana

Darla in Montana — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:15:20 +0000

YAY, RUSSELL!!! You never cease to amaze me! You’ve just given me a definitive reason to purchase CS4 that I can use to justify the expense. Those of us at small newspapers who are still using the copy/paste method of jumping stories between documents will certainly find this useful. I religiously check your website when Adobe issues new releases and get your take on them to determine if my budget should take the hit of upgrading. Thanks for all that you do.

By: Scott Dunn

Scott Dunn — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:51:28 +0000

Great tip!

A big improvement for those who already manage their jump pages in a separate InDesign file.

For those who keep the pages together, this technique might enable them to finally manage the jump pages in a separate InDesign document. Of course, when they do, they’ll need to adjust to the idea of fitting the front and jump as separate bits. And if the folks who are fitting are InCopy users this technique would still work, but it might baffle them at first.

By: Keith Gilbert

Keith Gilbert — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:41:37 +0000

Russell, way to think outside the box. Great idea!

By: Roland

Roland — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:56:40 +0000

Ahh okies. I’m the only person using the creative suite at work so I haven’t had need for this type of co-operative features. Good to know they can sometimes benefit solo users too though

By: Russell Viers

Russell Viers — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:14:48 +0000

Your understanding is correct, Roland.

The real purpose of the chech in/check out process is so that someone in InCopy can’t edit a story simultaneously with someone in InDesign. Keeps two people from fighting over whether to add that word or delete it.

In the case of this tip, it keeps two people working on two different InDesign documents from working on the same story.

By: Roland

Roland — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:18:17 +0000

As someone who’s never used InCopy or the InCopy anything in InDesign, I have to ask: what’s the check in/check out process for? Is checking out basically “going into edit mode” and checking in “going out of edit mode & saving changes”? Because that’s the way I understood it from those steps…