The Thesaurus: Free InCopy Tutorial

Learn how to utilize InCopy's Thesaurus feature to enhance your text editing skills.

This exercise is excerpted from past InCopy training materials and is compatible with InCopy updates through 2021. To learn current skills in Adobe Creative Cloud and graphic design, check out our graphic design classes in NYC and live online.

The Thesaurus

Using InCopy’s Thesaurus

  1. Go to Window > Thesaurus or use the keyboard shortcut by pressing Command–Option–F7 (Mac) or Control–Alt–F7 (Windows).

  2. Select a word in the text.

  3. Click the Load Word button thesaurus eyedropper button at the bottom of the panel.

    thesaurus load word

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The word you had selected will appear in the Lookup line at the top of the panel.

  1. Click the Lookup Word button thesaurus lookup button at the bottom of the panel.

  2. If you want to change the selected word to one of the Synonyms:
    • Click on the Synonym you want.
    • Click the Change Word button thesaurus change word button at the bottom of the panel. (Or just double–click the Synonym.)

    thesaurus change word

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