Chapter Five. Tracking Text Edits

It seems that no matter how hard we try and how many times we revise our own writing, every time we submit a book chapter or a magazine story to an editor it comes back full of comments and corrections. This back and forth process of writing, editing, and revising can go through several rounds before the content is ready to publish, and it’s important to always have a virtual paper trail of the editing process. This is where the track changes features of InCopy help streamline the process, especially when there are multiple writers, editors, and proofreaders involved.

If you edit a story in a simple text editor by adding, deleting, or moving text, the text is altered, but there’s no way to keep track of what was ...

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