Replacing Word with InCopy may have revolutionized your office’s workflow, but odds are not all of your clients, partners, vendors, or freelancers have yet seen the light. How can you work with collaborators still on Word? Easily.
Turn InCopy stories into a format Word users can read. Select File > Export. In the Export dialog that appears, choose Rich Text Format from the Save As Type dropdown menu. Rich Text Format (RTF) files are the basis for Microsoft Word .DOC files, and Word reads and writes RTF. Equally important, RTF will preserve all your story’s formatting–fonts, sizes, paragraph spacing, bold, italics, and so on–so that the Word user sees–and sends back to you–a fully formatted story. Even paragraph and character styles are saved in the RTF!
Of course, when it’s time for the story to come back to you, your collaborator can resave the RTF or create a Word DOC–InCopy will open either.