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Weird … I've taught hundreds of IC/ID users, and a few months down the line, after they've done a project or three, they're like, “you'll take my copy of InCopy out of my cold dead hands …” LOL. They can't imagine going back to paper markup or whatever.

Eugene, that's the first time I've heard of InCopy users really not getting check-in/check-out. I know you've moved on, but for lurkers, you should know that it's a trivial little task (that allows multiple users to edit the same file at the same time, so it's powerful feature!) You just do a Check Out All when opening the file, and then that's all you have to worry about. When you close the doc, InCopy checks all stories back in for you automatically.

Funny … David hatest check-in/check-out too. On the other hand, he doesn't believe in working off the server either. While very few of my publisher clients would allow users (editors especially) to work on files locally.

I should mention that if you don't need the ability for two or more people (designer and editor, or 2, or 5, etc.) to work on the same INDD file concurrently, you could just equip your InCopy users with Ctrl-Publishing's CtrlCross-Talk https://www.ctrlpublishing.com/…..  That lets IC users open INDD files and start editing, no check-out/check-in required.

AM