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Introduction
Welcome to InDesign Tips for Design Geeks
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April-June 2024
Favorite fast formatting tips (no text styles required!)
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January-March 2024
Splitting an image that spans a two-page spread
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The case of the reluctant text frame
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Make a local copy of your CC Library assets
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Speeding up image proofing, even in complex layouts
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Fixing imported PDF comments that don't map correctly
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Avoiding the "Failed to Import" alert
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Mirror or rotate a complex frame without affecting its text
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October-December 2023
Create intertwining letters and graphics right in InDesign
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When you can't equalize spacing, use this character style trick
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Inspector in Acrobat reveals font and image info in PDFs
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Using Generative Fill in Photoshop to fix images in a layout
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Add Illustrator gradients to InDesign
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Replace formatted text with placeholder text without losing formatting
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July-September 2023
Create a linked table of contents in your PDF
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Quickly and precisely import multiple images
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No import command in the Layers panel menu? No problem
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Find and use free InDesign templates in Adobe Stock
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Use a source layout to populate common pages in other layouts
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Last-minute changes to layouts are easy with Adjust Layout
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April-June 2023
Create a magic default text frame
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Use your CC Libraries in Google Docs, Word, and PowerPoint
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Some of your fonts have alternate universes
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Essential free scripts: Find/change by list
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Table hacks: Making rows and columns obey your commands
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Linking to Google Docs in InDesign
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January-March 2023
Add Pantone colors with the free Pantone Connect plugin
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Create multi-column layouts the right way
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How to turn off just one automatic ligature
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How much storage space is left in your Adobe CC subscription?
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Two ways to optically balance center-aligned headlines and pull quotes
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Figuring out the page sizes in a mixed page-size layout
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Drag and drop parent pages across layouts
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October-December 2022
200 free or low-cost stock photo sites
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Import PDF comments into multiple InDesign files
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Print color separations to a PDF
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Secret resources for learning InDesign
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Locating all images linked to a layout without opening InDesign
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July-September 2022
Unearth those buried menu commands with Quick Apply
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Beware the little red dot!
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Apply object styles automatically
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Troubleshoot issues with CC Libraries
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Script to unanchor text frames
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Use the discretionary hyphen
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Import word art into InDesign
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April-June 2022
You must back up your CC Libraries!
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Rescuing deleted CC Libraries
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Undoing the MakeGrid script
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How to anchor a text-wrapped image to the beginning of a paragraph
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Four ways to quickly save and reuse layout elements elsewhere
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Why is my button text disappearing?
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Three InDesign tips I learned from my clients in the past few months
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Design geek graduate school: Opening an IDML file to fix problems
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Make a keyboard shortcut to toggle Auto-Fit off and on
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Can't see your hidden characters? It's either an obscure setting or a prank
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How do I love thee, word count? Let me count the ways
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Oversets, begone! Make text frames autosize by default
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January-March 2022
Add InDesign layouts to Creative Cloud Libraries
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Font recognition in images using the new Extract feature
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Slim down linked vector files for smaller PDFs
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Easily manage dozens of scripts among multiple InDesign versions
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Batch-search for InDesign files that use Adobe Type 1 fonts
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Top sites for free InDesign scripts
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Fix number kerning problems by using the Proportional Lining attribute
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Make sure original high-res images travel with CC Library items
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Navigate long InDesign layouts with these little-known keyboard shortcuts
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Start a file with a two-page spread
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Take advantage of styled Word files
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Creating reader-friendly PDFs of facing-pages documents
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Open EPUBs for editing and put them back together with this utility
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October-December 2021
Convert guides to strokes for fun and profit
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Create backup versions of your InDesign layout every time you save using Dropbox
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Fix character spacing problems by switching kerning methods
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Add a text frame to the middle of a text thread
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View effects of master page changes on document pages immediately
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Share a single layout with multiple designers concurrently
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When to use the Balance Ragged Lines feature—and when not to
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How to convert an InDesign layout to Word format
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How to buy the fonts you love on Adobe Fonts
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Fast ways to find and fix overset text
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Tired of having to manage all the external image links? Embed them
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How to find and download public libraries to your CC libraries
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The next best things to folders for organizing master pages
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July-September 2021
Get sharp vector art in your Publish Online files, part one
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Get sharp vector art in your Publish Online files, part two
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Three tips for flexible headlines, tabs, and tables
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No source file for an EPUB you need to redesign? No problem!
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Customize how InDesign hyphenates a particular word
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How to use InCopy with InDesign
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Best practices for PDF commenting to share with your reviewers
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Scaling images in InDesign vs. scaling them in Photoshop
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InDesign default preferences that you should change
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From my script collection: Change the language in a layout
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Illustrator graphics in InDesign: Copy/paste, or import?
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Importing the Apple HEIC image format into InDesign
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How to mix page sizes in the same layout
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What's that blue happy face icon (and other mysterious hidden characters)?
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April-June 2021
Make the Buttons and Forms library more accessible
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Search public domain stock sites from within InDesign
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Make animated GIFs with Photoshop and InDesign
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Hide the blue highlighting in PDF forms you create from InDesign
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Automatically break long URLs without adding hyphens
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Simplify that long list of forgotten CC Libraries
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Two sort of secret tips for sending files to clients via Dropbox
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Let InDesign distribute the public link for your Share for Review
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January-March 2021
Adding new Pantone Color book swatches to InDesign
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Use the 70,000-plus free Adobe Stock assets in your layouts
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Update the same text across multiple layouts at once
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Browsing styles of a particular character
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Acrobat and InDesign: Use the Acrobat Share tools to send out PDFs for review
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Tips for easy text extraction from old PDFs
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Export PDF document versions quickly from a single layout
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Extract high-quality images from PDFs to use in your layout
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Use the Find Color features to avoid problems on the press
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InDesign for beginners: The two tools and three commands you need to know
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InDesign for artists: Where are all the art tools?
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InDesign for marketers: Finding and using templates
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