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Last updated 11/30/2015
You can view and edit tables in Story Editor, where text is displayed in sequential columns and rows for easy editing.
Quickly expand or collapse tables, and decide whether to view them by row or column.
The Story Editor also displays text that has been added, removed, or edited if you turn on Track Changes. See Tracking
and reviewing changes .
Open the Story Editor
1 Select the text frame, click an insertion point in the text frame, or select multiple frames from different stories.
2 Choose Edit > Edit In Story Editor.
To open another instance of the same story editor window, make the story editor active, and choose Window > Arrange
> New Window.
Return to the layout window
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In Story Editor, do one of the following:
Choose Edit > Edit In Layout. When you use this method, the layout view displays the same text selection or
insertion-point location as last appeared in the story editor, and the story window remains open but moves
behind the layout window.
Click in the layout window. The story window remains open but moves behind the layout window.
Close the story editor window.
Choose the document name from the bottom of the Window menu.
Show or hide Story Editor items
You can show or hide the style name column and the depth ruler, expand or collapse footnotes, and show or hide
paragraph break marks to indicate the start of new paragraphs. These settings affect all open story editor windows, as
well as all subsequently opened windows.
With the story editor active, choose View > Story Editor > Show Style Name Column or Hide Style Name Column.
You can also adjust the width of the style name column by dragging the vertical bar. Subsequent story editor
windows have the same column width.
With the Story Editor active, choose View > Story Editor > Show Depth Ruler or Hide Depth Ruler.
With the Story Editor active, choose View > Story Editor > Expand All Footnotes or Collapse AllFootnotes.
With the Story Editor active, choose View > Story Editor > Show Paragraph Break Marks or Hide Paragraph Break
Marks.
Story Editor preferences
Use Story Editor Display preferences to change the appearance of the Story Editor. Although the Story Editor
suppresses all but the most basic text styling attributes, some objects and attributes are represented, including the
following:
Attribute Icon
Table
Inline objects
XML tags