Discover some hidden and sometimes surprising workflow tips that will make working in InDesign more efficient and more fun.
Overview
Syllabus
This Week's Secret
- Finding hidden panels, controls, or menu items
- Welcome to InDesign Secrets
- Adding crop marks on your page
- InDesign Easter egg stroke styles
- Three essential InDesign scripts you already have
- Handy uses for the Show Set feature
- Create linked text using a CC Library
- Capturing a character style in a running head
- Customize the menus for a streamlined workflow
- Copy and paste object positions with the Eyedropper
- Using a section marker as a header
- Create a boilerplate text collection in CC Library
- Find indexed color images
- Activate and manage Adobe Fonts from a CC Library
- Use one frame, not many
- Create a portable InDesign document
- Create a grid with nCreate a portable InDesign document gaps
- Two GREP styles you have to know
- Tips and tricks for the Pages panel
- Learn Data Merge in five minutes
- Combine two documents to maintain pagination
- Apply corner options to corner options
- Rounded endcaps on paragraph rules
- How to tell which styles contain a font
- Keep links intact when pasting
- Find all documents that contain an image
- Pulling out key colors from placed images
- Add a time stamp to your layouts
- Adding form fields at the bottom of a contract
- Working with Google Docs in InDesign
- Adding descriptions to scripts
- Threading filled frames
- Clearing all overrides from a particular style
- Custom page numbering tricks
- Use blend modes to highlight text on images
- Where did the application bar widgets go?
- Making speech bubbles
- Working with ligatures
- Quick tips for numbered lists
- Your first GREP style—no codes!
- Change page size fast with the Page tool
- Sharing InDesign elements between versions
- Shadows and special effects on drop caps
- Auto-expand acronyms
- Knock a hole in an object
- Three ways to abolish runts (short last lines)
- Variable fonts
- Browse all Adobe Fonts from inside InDesign
- Create object styles for page positioning
- Using math in InDesign fields
- Freeze the top row of a table
- 417 Share layout elements with older versions
- 419 Tips for managing Adobe fonts in InDesign
- Find the special character you need fast
- 414 One click to better-looking type
- 415 Set up tables with footnote numbering
- 416 Copy colors, styles, or master pages across
- 418 Right-align numbers in a numbered list
- 409 Copy and paste effects
- 410 Tell InDesign to do your math homework
- 411 Manage the Edit Keyboard Shortcuts dialog
- 412 Three InDesign navigation shortcuts you need to know
- 413 Create a fast-and-easy fake duotone
- 405 When to use Balance Ragged Lines feature
- 406 Fix spacing between items in a list
- 407 Share parts of a layout with another designer
- 408 The master page trick
- 401 Import PDF comments from old PDFs
- 402 Draw on text frame above another
- 403 Import PDF comments from Document Cloud
- 404 Use InDesign Find and Replace for hyperlinks
- 397 Properties panel: Formatting objects
- 398 Change balanced ragged lines to pyramids
- 399 Properties panel: Text and styles tips
- 400 Change the space between objects fast!
- 393 Case-sensitive spell checks for custom words
- 394 Transform points to create amazing shapes
- 395 Properties panel: Tips for the new user
- 396 The right way to make a table style
- 388 Split a text frame into multiple threaded frames
- 389 Add notes to CC Library items
- 390 Use Split Window when choosing text colors
- 391 Copy layers from one layout to another
- 392 Swap text and images with a free script
- 384 Out-of-gamut warnings when choosing colors
- 385 Larger previews of CC Library items
- 386 Snippets: The easiest way to save and share styles
- 387 Move CC Libraries around with a file
- 380 Fill empty table cells with this script
- 381 Tips for targeting table strokes
- 382 Free, high-quality maps in vector format
- 383 Favorite Bridge tips for InDesign users
- 376 Make cast shadows
- 377 Loose and tight body styles
- 378 Change your measurements and rulers
- 379 Troubleshoot missing fonts
- 371 Determine type specs in a PDF
- 372 Add or remove columns while editing a story
- 373 Convert a PDF to an editable INDD
- 374 Animation: Fly in diagonally
- 375 Script editing for nonscripters
- 364 The mysterious _GoBack bookmark
- 365 Quick check for TypeKit fonts
- 366 Paste with and without text formatting
- 367 The line breaks of Paragraph Composer
- 368 PB, DT, and OV in the Links panel
- 369 Shared CC Libraries tips
- 370 Run scripts with Quick Apply or shortcuts
- 360 Find spacing problems
- 361 Use the No Break option to format characters
- 362 Find/Change to add text to many table cells
- 363 Export all text
- 351 Change default fonts
- 352 Best default RGB
- 353 Use Adobe Bridge to find fonts
- 354 Discretionary line breaks
- 355 Scale pictures inside a layout
- 356 Numbering items in a diagram
- 357 Extract anchored text frames
- 358 When Paragraph Style has no effect
- 359 Efficient ways to format paragraph styles
- 348 Make a quick grid from objects on your page
- 349 Utilize the new note feature
- 350 Exchange or swap two images
- 339 Change default keyboard shortcuts
- 340 Mapping one color swatch to another
- 341 Find free InDesign templates on Adobe Stock
- 342 Numbering items in a diagram
- 343 Border spacing fix
- 344 Insert a line before and after a heading
- 345 View track changes and export with InCopy
- 346 Export to HTML5
- 347 How to merge paragraph shading
- 335 Edit spacing from the keyboard
- 336 Create perfect triangles
- 337 Footnote and endnote keyboard shortcuts
- 338 Publish Online statistics
- 326 Changing word or character spacing in a paragraph style
- 327 Preflight profile to check for Typekit fonts
- 328 Naming items in the Layers panel
- 329 Distinguish among multiple working documents
- 330 Add corner brackets around a frame
- 331 InCopy with InDesign workflow Add space around lists with spans
- 332
- 333 Tips for formatting text spacing
- 334 Free script to rotate selected characters
- 322 Change character style for text inside parentheses
- 323 Typekit tips: Workarounds
- 324 Top 10 keyboard shortcuts to know
- 325 Link text frames
- 319 Use Creative Cloud to share InDesign files
- 320 Combining Animated GIFs with InDesign Animations
- 321 Conditional text with editorial notes
- 315 Streamline placement of auto-formatted images
- 316 Pay attention to Transparency Blend Space
- 317 Color fills with Eye Dropper
- 318 How to split a long story into smaller pieces
- 307 Two ways to ignore text wrap
- 308 Easily insert glyphs with free script
- 309 Create better publish online thumbnails
- 310 View publish online document stats
- 311 Make Word act like InDesign
- 312 Create Cross-Refs with a page range
- 313 Quick Apply preferences
- 314 Duplicate objects into a Grid
- 302 Automate a numbered list with check boxes
- 303 Import a style with Find/Change
- 304 Create a calendar with CalendarWizard
- 305 Keep options for table rows
- 306 Automatically crop multiple images
- 298 How to embed a YouTube video
- 299 Shrink your InDesign files
- 300 Remove blue highlighting from text
- 301 Embed a two-column text frame
- 289 Display overriding styles
- 290 Work with scripts
- 291 Overview of working with CC libraries
- 292 Automatically format run-in headings
- 293 Modify the Pages panel view
- 294 Adjust table strokes in Table Settings
- 295 Place and replace Artboards with a script
- 296 Incorporate Photoshop files into InDesign layouts
- 297 Share CC libraries with other users
- 285 Replace formatted text with lorem ipsum
- 286 How to format ellipses
- 287 Merge book files with a free Script
- 288 Create a maze with a free script
- 280 Screen redraw problems
- 281 Share a CC library
- 282 Make an image break out of its frame
- 283 Use Quick Apply to Drag and Drop
- 284 How to correct hyphenation
- 272 Reverse text when partially over a dark object
- 273 Set tab order for forms
- 274 When white is set to overprint
- 275 When the Control panel is missing controls
- 276 Make a grid of pages from a PDF file
- 277 Fix fraction problems in EPUBs
- 278 Adjust space between a group of objects
- 279 CC Libraries: Share vs. Collaborate overview
- 268 Techniques to convert text to outlines
- 269 Fix Illustrator place problems
- 270 Work with new Animated Zoom features
- 271 Add images to an index
- 264 Use a script to set the table subhead row style
- 265 Keep your templates current
- 266 Export selection or page as a sized JPEG or PNG
- 267 When all your numbers are superscript
- 255 Check resolution in a PDF
- 256 Character style highlighting
- 257 Convert a list to a table
- 258 Move InDesign artwork to Photoshop
- 259 Include summaries in your table of contents
- 260 Batch process images
- 261 Update swatches by syncing
- 262 Build and apply kerning tables
- 263 Sync master pages
- 251 Share one layout among many ID users with Layout Zone
- 252 Clean out old hyperlinks and hyperlink destinations
- 253 Crop many overlapping pix at once
- 254 Find the hex number for any color
- 247 Use InCopy to create linked boilerplate text for layouts
- 248 Keyboard shortcuts for special characters
- 249 Create layout notes in InDesign for InCopy users
- 250 Keyboard shortcut to insert special glyphs inside a font
- 242 When a tab really means new line
- 243 Export all the fonts in a layout without packaging
- 244 Format the first line of a paragraph with Line Styles
- 245 Place all PDF pages at once
- 246 The problem with blending spot colors
- 234 Free script identifies word stacks
- 235 Easier style mapping from Word to InDesign
- 236 Auto-reflow images in a grid
- 237 Making your style names “legal” for EPUBs
- 238 See your document in grayscale onscreen
- 239 Packaging without the instruction file
- 240 Side-by-side tables
- 241 Three ways to move styles from one InDesign file to another
- 229 Batch converting ID files to current version with the Book panel
- 230 Getting around InDesign limitations
- 231 Creating better callout lines with effects and object styles
- 232 Swapping column and row information in tables
- 233 Making bigger text link targets
- 225 Discovering secrets of the Tabs panel
- 226 Making object styles to change frame size
- 227 Tips for using Edit Original
- 228 Setting text at an angle
- 218 Copying and pasting Photoshop paths
- 219 Customizing frames in Normal View
- 220 Placing paragraph lines for emphasis
- 221 Finding and editing all overset text in a doc
- 222 Adding paragraph shading
- 223 Forcing chapter names down from the top with a style
- 224 Creating custom color swatches
- 210 Working with pasteboard options
- 211 Tips and tricks for paragraph shading
- 212 Incorporating spring-loaded tool shortcuts
- 213 Making InDesign run faster
- 214 Formatting text quickly with Apply Next
- 215 Making a print PDF do double-duty as an online PDF
- 216 Adding continued headers to tables
- 217 Choosing which layout objects get packaged for the printer
- 206 Creating Intertwining Objects
- 207 Fixing style collisions in EPUB output
- 208 Navigating through pages with bookmarks
- 209 Creating a keyboard shortcut for the [None] character style
- 197 Permanently disabling hyphenation
- 198 Adding prefixes to page numbers
- 199 Taming baseline grid previews
- 200 Using Work and Turn to create two-sided documents
- 201 Making better Bridge previews
- 202 Formatting drop words in a text document
- 203 Sharing custom workspaces
- 204 Creating a
- 205 Managing scripts
- 189 Placing InDesign files
- 190 Make an image sandwich: Putting an image in front and in back of text for a magazine cover
- 191 Deciding between reflowable and fixed-layout EPUB
- 192 Test font choices quickly in CC
- 193 Printing tracked changes
- 194 Using Ink Manager before sending your project to the printer
- 196 Working with dynamic layouts
- 184 Put a box around or behind a paragraph
- 185 Fixing three common Word formatting glitches
- 186 Making long shadows
- 187 Three ways to prevent a word from hyphenating
- 188 How to type the last page number in a book
- 176 Quickly empty out an InDesign document of text and images
- 177 Add a font from Typekit in CC
- 178 How to hide the content grabber donut
- 179 File naming for healthy EPUBs
- 180 One-sided custom strokes for image borders
- 181 The fastest way to find missing links
- 182 Start a document on a left-hand page
- 183 Borrowing preset art paths from Illustrator and Photoshop for fresh frame looks in InDesign
- 172 Making a character style change only the tint of your text
- 173 Editing table set up from the keyboard
- 174 How to sort text in InDesign
- 175 Making captions easy (ignore text wrap object style library item live caption)
- 169 All about All Caps (change case open type option)
- 170 Batch convert InDesign files to IDML and other formats
- 171 Fun with placeholder text
- 166 Creating blank entry spaces on forms
- 167 Creative uses of the Slug area
- 168 Change the UI languaging in InDesign CS6 and CC
- 161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items
- 162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text
- 163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook
- 164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style
- 165 Five InDesign Presentation tips
- 157 Sharing swatches (PS/IL/ID and ID to ID)
- 158 Convert rounded corners to editable paths
- 159 Convert local formatting to character styles
- 160 Sort an index by page number
- 153 When InDesign ignores your leading values
- 154 Extracting images from a Word document
- 155 Uncommon uses for Quick Apply
- 156 Uncovering InDesign's magic font folders
- 148 Cropping with paste into
- 149 Using vertical justification to spread out text in a frame automatically
- 150 Rotate text inside a frame, or the frame around the text
- 151 Looking at snippets vs. libraries
- 152 Import a folder full of pictures, one per page
- 144 Lay out a front back and spine for a book jacket
- 145 Ghosting area of image behind text
- 146 Make a transparency mask in InDesign
- 147 Using preflight to find common document errors
- 139 Faking bold and italic when the font family doesn’t have one
- 140 Keeping the same scale size when updating or relinking to images
- 141 Inserting glyphs
- 142 Building richer, bolder color gradients
- 143 Finding the right font with InDesign’s font menus
- 135 Fitting text to a specific size
- 136 Quick tips for making a small PDF file size
- 137 Sharing presets, workspaces, and custom shortcuts sets
- 138 Making a multi-level numbered list
- 131 Changing the shape of polygons and starburst as you draw or afterward
- 132 Contextual text and images that you only want sometimes visible
- 133 Creating nav points in a movie
- 134 Adding effects to your rule above and rule below
- 127 Making automatic jump lines
- 128 Turning off allow pages to shuffle in order to separate facing pages
- 129 Dealing with parentheses around text size
- 130 Make a fill in the blank label for contracts and forms
- 122 Allow text frame to resize with text
- 123 Mapping Word styles to InDesign styles
- 124 Make two automatically threaded text flows
- 125 Saving for Web in InDesign
- 126 Numbering rows in a table
- 119 Making alternative body text styles for fast typesetting
- 120 Making InDesign patterns with the free PatternMaker
- 121 Creating pull quotes the easy way
- 116 Selecting text with the InDesign keyboard dance
- 117 Including a total page count in your page numbers
- 118 Making a custom arrowhead
- 111 Packaging images on the pasteboard
- 112 Automatically updating figure references for books
- 113 Adding Tool Tips to your form fields in InDesign
- 114 Setting poetry, flush left, center on longest line
- 115 Use bookmarks to navigate long documents in production
- 107 Using the same keyboard shortcut for two different commands with the Context feature
- 108 Making a text highlighter
- 109 Updating an interactive PDF without losing work done in Acrobat
- 110 Adding custom text at the beginning of each line automatically
- 103 Converting text to outlines the right way
- 104 Turning InDesign into a speed demon
- 105 Working with MiniBridge
- 106 Customize your QR codes
- 099 Aligning Objects tips and tricks
- 100 Applying corner options to any shape
- 101 Converting footnotes to endnotes with a free script
- 102 Making tab leaders pretty
- 095 Managing changing pages with primary text frames
- 096 Secrets of the Info panel
- 097 Surprising ways to do a word count
- 098 Placing an object where you want it with an object style
- 089 Three great Object Styles for any designer
- 090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency
- 091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files
- 092 Adding ALT tags to your images
- 093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting
- 094 Setting the baseline position of a caption
- 085 Using Illustrator to create InDesign gradient swatches
- 086 Building a simple grep style to change character size
- 087 Exporting a grayscale PDF
- 088 Three ways to cheat text outside of its frame
- 081 Creating a custom cross-reference format
- 082 Putting different-sized pages on a single spread
- 083 Formatting prices with nested and grep styles
- 084 Checking out the Gridify tricks
- 077 The secrets of formatting objects with Find/Change
- 078 Using ruler guides: 10 great tricks
- 079 Converting a clipping path to a frame
- 080 Adding a drop shadow to a single word inside a frame
- 069 Ten uses of the Story Editor
- 070 Moving an object: Ten ways!
- 071 Understanding optical margin alignment (and the quote trick)
- 072 Changing the shape of any frame with the pen tool
- 073 Working with sets in the content conveyor tool
- 074 Running text along the top and the bottom of a circle
- 075 Creating a list using the Table of Contents feature
- 076 Quickly threading frames together and unthreading frames
- 065 Customizing the story editor preferences
- 066 Setting the size of text exactly with this free script
- 067 Using Gravity to simulate perspective
- 068 Fixing the overflowing text frame problem in EPUBs
- 061 Embedding images
- 062 Adjusting leading inside a paragraph
- 063 Placing one InDesign file inside another
- 064 Creating bookmarks for PDFs
- 057 Text wrapping
- 058 Inserting pages: Understanding the Pages panel
- 059 Copying paths between Illustrator and InDesign
- 060 Automating Find/Change with the Find/ChangeByList script
- 051 Five things that should be in every new file
- 052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects
- 053 Understanding component information
- 054 Creating running heads using section markers
- 055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script
- 056 Finding where that color is used
- 047 Specifying an exact amount of space between objects
- 048 Fixing last lines that are too short
- 049 Creating web graphics from your InDesign artwork
- 050 Using “No Language” to suppress unwanted hyphenation, spell-checking, and smart quotes
- 043 Formatting fractions correctly
- 044 Fixing unwanted hyperlinks in an imported Word file
- 045 Inline graphic tricks with invisible paragraphs
- 046 Ensuring the first line of every chapter starts in the same spot
- 037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting
- 038 Creating electronic sticky notes
- 039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility
- 040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers
- 041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics
- 042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting
- 033 Importing a custom dictionary
- 034 Changing document orientation and page size
- 035 Numbering instead of using auto page numbers
- 036 Setting story order with the Articles panel
- 027 Creating running heads using variables
- 028 Live Caption tips and tricks
- 029 Making professional drop caps
- 030 Making two-state buttons in interactive documents
- 031 Moving pages from one document to another
- 032 Wrapping bulleted text around a curve
- 019 Using multiple windows for comparisons
- 020 Putting images on a stroke
- 021 Making your own motion path
- 022 Copying objects between Illustrator and InDesign
- 023 Using layer comps in Photoshop files to show alternates in InDesign
- 024 Adding custom HTML tags to EPUB/HTML exports
- 025 Tracking down type issues with the composition highlighter
- 026 Managing your InDesign panels
- 015 Aligning numbered lists by decimal points
- 016 Running a script
- 017 When text disappears from a text frame
- 018 Preview and Presentation modes (changing color etc.)
- 011 InDesign's Easter eggs
- 012 Three cool GREP styles everyone can use
- 013 A field guide to special characters
- 014 Trashing the application preferences to solve weird behaviors
- 007 Selecting through and into objects using cmd-click and Select Above/Below
- 008 Some great tips and tricks for the Swatches panel
- 009 Saving down for backward compatibility with INX and IDML
- 010 Using the INX and IDML formats to fix problems
- 001 The hidden "auto-expand text" feature
- 002 Letting InDesign do the math for you
- 003 The indispensible Quick Apply feature
- 004 Customizing the Links panel
- 005 Magically building graphs with the Chartwell font
- 006 Using the Eyedropper tool to pick up character or paragraph attributes
Taught by
Anne-Marie Concepción and David Blatner
