Date: January 22nd 2007

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*** InCopyFlow ***

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Tips and techniques for Adobe InCopy/InDesign Workflow Users

Premiere Issue!
-- Welcome
-- "InCopy InDepth" Free Webinar 1/24/07 -- Need Your InCopy Feature Requests

Issue 1, 1/22/07
Written by Anne-Marie "HerGeekness" Concepcion ... for her InCopy students and interested subscribers (unsubscribe link at the bottom)

(c) 2007 Seneca Design & Training, Inc.

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Welcome!

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Hi there, and thank you for letting me through your e-mail filter. ;-)

Welcome to the first issue of "InCopyFlow," my periodic e-mail of InCopy news and tips that I thought you'd appreciate.

Most of you ended up on my initial distribution list because at some point over the past couple years I helped you learn Adobe InCopy. (Remember when I passed around a roster asking for your name and e-mail address? I had this e-zine in mind.)

The rest of you are getting this because you clicked the "Sign up for my IC/ID Tips E-zine" link on my InCopy Resources page, here: http://www.senecadesign.com/designgeek/incopy.html

If you don't want to be on this list, please forgive the intrusion. Just scroll down to the bottom and click the Unsubscribe link. Nice and simple.

I'm sorry it's taken me so long to get an issue out. I've been overwhelmed and overbooked lately with other committments. "Get InCopyFlow out in January" was on my list of New Year's resolutions ... so now I can rest easy, and put off "Join a gym" for another couple months.

One reason I felt compelled to get this going was because I'm involved in a few very interesting InCopy projects, some of which I'm not allowed to talk about until they go live, and I needed a venue to announce them when they did.

Another reason is that virtually all of my training engagements these days are for InCopy/InDesign; and hearing feedback from you about what it's like to work in the IC/ID workflow makes me a better trainer for those just getting up to speed. I would like to turn this one-way e-zine into a listserv (mailing list) or other sort of forum where we can all talk to each other, but I haven't figured out the best way to do that yet. But plans are in the works.

In the meantime, please e-mail me at amarie@senecadesign.com and let me know what you need help with, what topics you'd like to see me write about in upcoming issues. If you put "InCopyFlow" in the Subject line that'll help me find your e-mail among the hundreds I wade through every day.

On to the show...

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"InCopy InDepth" Webinar 1/24/07

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Are you going to be around this coming Wednesday (1/24/07) at noon CST? I'd like to invite you to a free, live web-based seminar I'm doing called Adobe InCopy/InDesign InDepth. The registration link is here: <http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=512310&loc=en_us&trackingid=RBBE>

After you register, Adobe will send you an e-mail with the particulars including the seminar URL and an 800 number for the audio if you don't want to listen on your computer. The seminar will be 60 minutes long, including the final Q&A.

Adobe invites people like me ("advanced" users and trainers/consultants) to host occasional webinars -- they call them eSeminars -- to help users learn more about their products. They're free, all you need to do is go to the webinar URL at the appointed time and sit back and listen for an hour or so. You can also use the eSeminar's Chat window to post your questions and if there's time, the presenter answers them during the last ten minutes.

I've done a few eSeminars on InCopy/InDesign for Adobe in the past, but they've all been for people who aren't actually using it yet and want to learn more. This InDepth one is for people who are already using it and would appreciate learning more about how to use it fully and well.

Actually, I'm spending Tuesday and Wednesday morning coming up with an agenda of what I'll talk about ... told you I was overbooked, right ... so now would be a great time for you to tell me what you'd like me to cover.

I'm thinking: Assignments, InCopy Templates, Editing Keyboard Shortcuts, Application Preferences, Workspaces, and Troubleshooting. What do you think? Anything you wish you had known in your first couple months of using InCopy that would've made things easier for you?

One problem with the Adobe eSeminars is that they're marketed mainly to creative types -- the designers, in other words. I'm hoping this InDepth one will pull in more editors, actual InCopy users, than before. I'll let you know!

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Need Your InCopy Feature Requests

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Have you found it frustrating that InCopy lacks some sort of Word feature or even InDesign feature that would really make your job easier? Let me know!

I'm not saying I have any power to make it happen -- I don't work for Adobe -- but I do work closely with scripters and plug-in developers who could come up with a solution. Unfortunately, they're much more in tune with InDesign than they are with InCopy or the needs of InCopy/InDesign workflow users. I can only tell them so much, based on my experience using it in a limited way in our studio, and teaching it to other publishers (and fielding their support questions after training is over).

A lot of you who've had me as your InCopy trainer know that I'm on a quixotic mission to get someone to develop what I call the "BigBBigI" feature ... just a simple large B and I somewhere, buttons you can click like Word has, so that editors can easily make a word bold or italic instead of digging through the Character palette or remembering the keyboard shortcuts.

I didn't come up with the name, one of my students did, long ago and inadvertently. She raised her hand and asked, "Where's the big B and the big I?" it took me a few beats to figure out what she was talking about, but that question has turned out to be one of the most frequently asked.

So if you have a feature request like that one ... so simple! ... or even a more complicated one, please e-mail me at amarie@senecadesign.com and let me know.

I'll write up the ones you send me in a future issue of InCopyFlow and we can compare notes.

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InCopyFlow is a free publication written by Anne-Marie "HerGeekness" Concepcion, a designer, publishing consultant and authorized Adobe and Quark training provider. She owns Seneca Design & Training, Inc. in Chicago, Illinois (http://www.senecadesign.com/).

To subscribe to InCopyFlow, send an e-mail to amarie@senecadesign.com with "Subscribe InCopyFlow" in the Subject line. You don't have to include anything in the body area of the message, but if you don't mind, we'd love to know your company, title and city/state, and anything else you'd like to add. Anything you send is kept confidentially by us and is never shared with third parties.

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