This is the source of a lot of confusion: no matter what you change the width and depth or height to in either of these fields, you’ll always end up with. In the New Document dialog box, you’re provided with the ability to change the width and height of the page (the page size, in other words), as well as the text area width and depth. You might think, hey, there must be a place where you can change the margins. When you create a new standalone document in InCopy and view it in Layout view, it looks like an InDesign document, with margins on every side of the page.
This is why most of the “usual” word processing features are missing from InCopy. Content that begins in InCopy is intended to by placed into InDesign at some point down the line, where the text of the InCopy story takes on the geometry of the frame in InDesign. InCopy will, however, add additional pages as needed - which somewhat resembles the behavior of a word processing application - so it’s easy to see why someone might misinterpret how InCopy should be used. Hence the missing margins, lack of headers and footers, inability to add automatic page numbers, and no way to configure multiple columns, among many other things. As much as I hear people describe InCopy as a replacement for Microsoft Word in a publishing workflow, InCopy is not a replacement for Word in a word processing workflow.
It’s a good question, but one that requires some further explanation regarding the role of InCopy.Ĭreating a document without the intent of ever connecting it (flowing it into) InDesign is referred to as a stand-alone document, in other words, using it as a word processor. I received a question this week from a user who was using InCopy to create simple standalone documents and was confounded by the complete lack of margin settings when creating a new document.
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