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Hi Mike, fwiw almost all of my clients forego assignments and use a layout-based workflow as you describe.

I think you're overlooking a menu item and its submenu. The first set of commands in Edit > InCopy are for assignment-based workflows. Underneath them, right under a menu separator rule, there is an Export command. Look there for the commands you'll need for a layout-based workflow. Probably you want to use Edit > InCopy > Export > All Stories. In CS3, this ignores un-overridden master page stories, so it's a handy little guy. (In previous versions the command would export every folio ... oy)

When you export, be sure to save the stories into their own folder so editors don't accidentally open them instead of the layout. I usually put exported .incx files into a "stories" folder. If you use ID's Assignments feature, it creates a folder called "content" for these files automatically.

AM