Why can't InDesign search in InCopy stories without checking out?
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It’s annoyed me forever, and I’m just wondering if there is something in the way ID and IC are built that makes it impossible for them to give us this function. In another topic in this IC forum Anne-Marie said that the only reason the ID user would ever need to check out the IC stories is to edit them. The problem is that editors using IC don’t always understand how (or remember) to use styles. I always want to check that, for example, all the italic text in the publication has the italic character style. I can easily check out all the stories, but I don’t feel I should have to. Just adds steps to a simple task.
Override highlighting helps spot some things, but there are many things I search for before going to press that are not overrides. Double spaces, for example, or parentheses in italics that shouldn’t be (which won’t show up as overrides if the editor remembered to use styles when italicizing the last word inside them).
(What I’m really hoping is that someone will alert me to something I’ve missed that already allows me to search stories without checking them out.)
Just saw this post and see it’s rather old, but if you turn on the “Include Locked Stories (Find Only)” option in the Find/Change dialog that is located underneath the Search properties, you don’t have to check the stories out.
I thought I’d tried that, but maybe I never did. Embarrassing oversight if I didn’t, since I’ve done it in lots of other situations where I had locked stories. Thanks.
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