Chapter 19. Editing, Spell-checking, and Replacing Text
IN THIS CHAPTER
Editing text, including highlighting, cutting and pasting, and deleting
Using the Story Editor
Correcting mistakes as you type
Checking spelling as you type or all at one time
Customizing the spelling and hyphenation dictionaries
Searching and replacing words and formats
Placing notes in text
Most users do the bulk of their writing and editing in a word processor before bringing the files into InDesign for layout.
That doesn't mean you shouldn't perform word processor functions in InDesign, however. It makes a lot of sense to write captions, headlines, and other elements that need to fit a restricted area, as well as to take care of copy editing and minor revisions. InDesign lets you do such writing and editing in the actual layout or in a built-in text editor that mimics TextEdit for the Mac or WordPad for Windows, except it does layout-specific things for you as well, such as tracking line counts.
Either way, you'll extensively use InDesign's editing and search-and-replace functions, as well as the spell-checker, to refine your content.
Editing Text
When you're working in a layout in InDesign, you have the basic editing capabilities found in a word processor: cutting and pasting, and deleting and inserting text. These capabilities work very much like other text editors and word processors, so you should be able to use the techniques you already know to edit text within InDesign.
Controlling text view
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