InDesign How-to: Use the Story Editor
See how to use InDesign's Story Editor to view the content of text frames without the distraction of formatting for easy editing and problem solving.
In this InDesign video, Bart Van de Wiele shows how using the Story Editor is just like having X-ray vision! He demos using it to see just the content of text frames without the distraction of formatting for easy editing and problem solving.
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This article was last modified on August 29, 2025
This article was first published on July 19, 2021
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