Adobe InDesign CS5 - Manual (Page 203)

197 USING INDESIGN
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Last updated 11/16/2011
• To convert a note to text, select the text in the Notes panel that you want to add to the text of the document. Or, in
Story Editor, select the text in the inline note. Then choose Type > Notes
> Convert To Text.
• To split a note, place the insertion point in the note where you want it to be split and choose Type > Notes > Split Note.
• To navigate among notes, click the insertion point in the story and choose Type > Notes > Previous Note or Notes >
Next Note.
Edit Notes preferences
Preferences settings let you set the color for note anchors, bookends, and backgrounds when inline in the Story Editor.
You can also choose to display note info as a tool tip, as well as choose whether to include note content in Find/Change
operations and spell checking in the Story Editor.
1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Notes (Windows) or InDesign > Preferences > Notes (Mac OS).
2 Select a color for note anchors and note bookends from the Note Color menu. Select [User Color] to use the color
specified in the User dialog box. This is especially useful if more than one person is working on the file.
3 Select Show Note Tool Tips to display note information and some or all of the note content as a tool tip when the
mouse pointer hovers over a note anchor in Layout view or a note bookend in Story Editor.
4 Specify whether you want to include inline note content when using the Find/Change and Spell Check commands
(in Story Editor only).
Note: In Layout view, you cannot use the Find/Change and Spell Check commands to search for the contents of notes,
regardless of the settings in the Preferences dialog box. However, Change All does edit the contents of notes.
5 Select either [None] or [Note Color] (the color you chose in step 2) to use for the background color of an inline note.
6 Click OK.