Lynda.com - InDesign Secrets 1 to 65 (2012)
with David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepcion
In this series, David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepción, co-hosts of the web's top resource for InDesign tips and tricks, InDesignSecrets.com, share some hidden and sometimes surprising workflow tips that will make working in InDesign more efficient and more fun. The course covers built-in timesaving features such as Quick Apply and auto-expanding text, but also little-known tricks, such as using the eyedropper to copy and paste character and paragraph text attributes and making accurate selections by selecting through or even into objects.
New techniques will be added to the collection every other week, so check back early and often. Find more tips and tricks at indesignsecrets.com.
authors
David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepcion
subject
Design
software
InDesign CS4, CS5, CS5.5, CS6
level
Intermediate
duration
6h 22m
released
Aug 25, 2011
updated
Nov 08, 2012
FileList :
001 Intro to InDesign Secrets 51s
002 The hidden "auto-expand text" feature 5m 51s
003 Letting InDesign do the math for you 3m 15s
004 The indispensible Quick Apply feature 5m 29s
005 Customizing the Links panel 6m 53s
006 Magically building graphs with the Chartwell font 7m 43s
007 Using the Eyedropper tool to pick up character or paragraph attributes 3m 21s
008 Selecting through and into objects using cmd-click and Select Above/Below 5m 46s
009 Some great tips and tricks for the Swatches panel 9m 40s
010 Saving down for backward compatibility with INX and IDML 5m 55s
011 Using the INX and IDML formats to fix problems 4m 46s
012 InDesign's Easter eggs 5m 0s
013 Three cool GREP styles everyone can use 7m 35s
014 A field guide to special characters 8m 2s
015 Trashing the application preferences to solve weird behaviors 4m 42s
016 Aligning numbered lists by decimal points 3m 10s
017 Running a script 9m 33s
018 When text disappears from a text frame 6m 18s
019 Preview and Presentation modes (changing color, etc.) 4m 8s
020 Using multiple windows for comparisons 3m 35s
021 Putting images on a stroke 5m 23s
022 Making your own motion path 5m 43s
023 Copying objects between Illustrator and InDesign 6m 53s
024 Using layer comps in Photoshop files to show alternates in InDesign 4m 19s
025 Adding custom HTML tags to EPUB/HTML exports 5m 32s
026 Tracking down type issues with the composition highlighter 8m 13s
027 Managing your InDesign panels 5m 46s
028 Creating running heads using variables 5m 1s
029 Live Caption tips and tricks 8m 3s
030 Making professional drop caps 10m 37s
031 Making two-state buttons in interactive documents 5m 5s
032 Moving pages from one document to another 3m 15s
033 Wrapping bulleted text around a curve 5m 58s
034 Importing a custom dictionary 7m 8s
035 Changing document orientation and page size 6m 45s
036 Numbering instead of using auto page numbers 6m 23s
037 Setting story order with the Articles panel 8m 3s
038 Updating a linked table without losing formatting 5m 38s
039 Creating electronic sticky notes 4m 49s
040 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility 2m 48s
041 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers 6m 18s
042 Letting InDesign add the diacritics 4m 21s
043 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting 6m 2s
044 Formatting fractions correctly 8m 11s
045 Fixing unwanted hyperlinks in an imported Word file 5m 57s
046 Inline graphic tricks with invisible paragraphs 4m 21s
047 Ensuring the first line of every chapter starts in the same spot 3m 1s
048 Specifying an exact amount of space between objects 5m 17s
049 Fixing last lines that are too short 8m 16s
050 Creating web graphics from your InDesign artwork 7m 20s
051 Using “No Language” to suppress unwanted hyphenation, spell-checking, and smart quotes 2m 48s
052 Five things that should be in every new file 5m 19s
053 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects 6m 21s
054 Understanding component information 6m 39s
055 Creating running heads using section markers 4m 16s
056 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script 5m 20s
057 Finding where that color is used 7m 17s
058 Text wrapping 6m 54s
059 Inserting pages: Understanding the Pages panel 4m 20s
060 Copying paths between Illustrator and InDesign 5m 14s
061 Automating Find/Change with the Find/ChangeByList script 12m 48s
062 Embedding images 7m 43s
063 Adjusting leading inside a paragraph 4m 31s
064 Placing one InDesign file inside another 3m 58s
065 Creating bookmarks for PDFs 7m 25s
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