Create or open any InDesign cloud document.
- InDesign User Guide
- Get to know InDesign
- Introduction to InDesign
- Workspace
- Generative AI (Not available in mainland China)
- Introduction to InDesign
- Create and layout documents
- Documents and pages
- Create documents
- Work with parent pages
- Work with document pages
- Set page size, margins, and bleed
- Work with files and templates
- Convert PDFs to InDesign files in InDesign (Beta)
- Create book files
- Add basic page numbering
- Number pages, chapters, and sections
- Convert QuarkXPress and PageMaker documents
- Share content
- Understand a basic managed-file workflow
- Save documents
- Grids
- Layout aids
- Documents and pages
- Add content
- Text
- Add text to frames
- Threading text
- South-East Asian Scripts
- Arabic and Hebrew features in InDesign
- Create type on a path
- Bullets and numbering
- Insert MathML to create math expressions
- Glyphs and special characters
- Text composition
- Text variables
- Generate QR codes
- Edit text
- Align text
- Wrap text around objects
- Anchored objects
- Linked content
- Format paragraphs
- Format characters
- Typography
- Format text
- Review text
- Spell check and language dictionaries
- Add references
- Styles
- Tables
- Interactivity
- Graphics
- Color and transparency
- Text
- Find and replace
- Share
- Export, import, and publish
- Place, export, and publish
- Publish online
- Publish online dashboard
- Copy, insert graphics
- Export to Adobe Express
- Export content for EPUB
- Adobe PDF options
- Export to HTML5
- Export content to HTML (Legacy)
- Export to Adobe PDF
- Export to JPEG format
- Import SVG files
- DPS and AEM Mobile overview
- Supported File Formats
- Export and import User Settings
- Printing
- Place, export, and publish
- Extend InDesign
- Automation
- Troubleshooting
Effortlessly collaborate by designing in InDesign and allowing editors to refine content online with InCopy on the web (Beta), speeding up your workflow.
InDesign (Beta) is available for testing and feedback. Try it now to experience new features.
Simplified text collaboration for designers
As a designer, you can create or open any cloud document, share it with content editors, and assign specific text frames to each collaborator.
Share a document with collaborators
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Select Window > Content Editing.
You can see all the collaborators added to a document.
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Select the Add collaborators button if this is your first time adding collaborators to your document.
Tip:Select the Add Collaborator icon if you have other collaborators and want to add more.
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Add the collaborator’s email ID and select Done. The email ID is now added to the Content Editing panel, and your collaborator receives an email to access the document and edit the assigned stories.
You can also Copy Link and share it with your collaborators.
Tip:Select Add instead of Done to add several collaborators one after the other.
Assign text frames for editing
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Right-click a text frame and select Content Editing Options > Assign To.
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Select an existing collaborator’s name.
Select Add to share the document with a new collaborator and give edit access to the selected text frame.
You can see the assigned icon on top of the text frame to indicate that this is shared as a story with a collaborator.
- Once a text frame is assigned, it appears as a story in the Content Editing panel under the collaborator’s email.
- You can’t edit an assigned story in the InDesign app.
- Select the application menu icon to Go to Story, Remove Story, Delete Collaborator, Stop Collaboration, or Share Feedback.
- You can’t assign one story to multiple collaborators. If you assign an already assigned story to a new collaborator, InDesign will automatically remove the text frame from the old collaborator’s list.
Effortless text editing on the web for collaborators
As a content editor, you can open the shared cloud document on the web and edit the assigned stories.
Access shared documents on the web
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Open the link shared by the document owner in Google Chrome.
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Log in with the email ID to which the document is shared.
Edit assigned stories with InCopy on the web
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Open the link shared by the document owner in Google Chrome.
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Log in with the email ID to which the document is shared.
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Select the Assignments icon to view the list of stories assigned to you.
You can also select the Pages icon to view all the pages in the document and a pink border around the pages and stories assigned to you.
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Hover over any story and select Edit. The content in the assigned story is now editable in full-screen mode.
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Make the necessary changes, and select Done .
You can use the bold icon and italics icon to format the text.
Select the Share Feedback icon from the InDesign Content Editing panel or InCopy on the web.
Here are some known limitations, and we're actively working to resolve this in future updates:
- Sometimes, the Assignments panel may take time to appear. Plese refresh the browser tab to resolve it. If the Assignment panel does not appear after you refresh the browser tab, clear the browser cache for indesign.adobe.com under site settings and restart the Chrome browser.
- If you remove a story and assign it again or move from one collaborator to another, the edited text content in the web editor will not render in the canvas and sometimes not propagated to the InDesign app.
- Whenever InCopy on the web (Beta) collaboration flow is initiated, a Do-Not-Delete folder is created in /cloud-content/. Deleting or making any modifications to this folder will mess up the collaboration data on the document.
- By default, collaborators added through the InCopy on the web (Beta) feature are assigned view-only access to the InDesign cloud documents. They can edit only their assigned text frame, not the rest of the document. These collaborators also appear in the Invite to Edit workflow, but their access cannot be upgraded to edit the document.
- Applying bold and italic styles in the text editor may render incorrectly if the corresponding font is unavailable in Adobe Fonts.
- Certain file formats, such as BMP, SVG, GIF, PDF, JPG with special effects, and MP4 assets, may not render properly in Chrome.
- Only supported on Google Chrome.
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