Ten Essential Tips1. The most important preferences to change| 00:05 | The number one mistake I see
InDesign users making is not changing their
| | 00:09 | preferences. You just can't be
efficient in this program, unless you customize it
| | 00:13 | to the way that you work. So let me
show you a few of the preferences
| | 00:16 | that I always change.
| | 00:18 | On a Mac OS, you can find
preferences by going to the InDesign menu and
| | 00:21 | choosing Preferences. On Windows, the
Preferences submenu is under the Edit menu.
| | 00:26 | But in either case, the Preferences
submenu lists all the different panes
| | 00:30 | inside the Preferences dialog box.
| | 00:32 | Usually, I just press Command+K or Ctrl+
K to go directly to the first pane,
| | 00:36 | the General pane. But before I do that,
I'm going to point something out here.
| | 00:41 | I have a document open. When you have a
document open, most of the changes you
| | 00:45 | make to the Preferences dialog box
will affect this particular document only.
| | 00:49 | If you want to change your default
preferences, that is all the preferences for
| | 00:52 | documents you make from now on,
then you need to close all your current
| | 00:56 | documents. I'll do that here by
pressing Command+W or Ctrl+W on Windows.
| | 01:01 | Now I'll press Command+K or Ctrl+K to open
the Preferences dialog box and I'll show
| | 01:05 | you the preferences I like to change.
| | 01:07 | I want to be clear here that just
because I change these preferences, doesn't
| | 01:10 | mean that you should. You need to make
these decisions for yourself to reflect
| | 01:14 | the way that you work. But the first
change I always make when I install a new
| | 01:18 | version of InDesign is to jump to the
Type pane and turn on the Apply Leading
| | 01:22 | to Entire Paragraphs checkbox.
| | 01:25 | When that's off, you can have
different leading values within the same
| | 01:28 | paragraph. While that's pretty cool
for some typographic special effects,
| | 01:32 | in the vast majority of text that I set,
I want the same leading for the entire
| | 01:35 | paragraph. So I turn that on. Let me
point out a couple of checkboxes here that
| | 01:39 | you might want to turn on and
off depending on how you work.
| | 01:42 | The Type Tool Converts Frames to Text
Frames feature means that if you click on
| | 01:46 | a graphic frame or an unassigned frame
with a Type tool, it will not turn into
| | 01:51 | a text frame. If that behavior drives
you crazy, then you should turn that
| | 01:55 | checkbox off. I usually
leave it on, but that's just me.
| | 01:59 | The other thing that some people like
to turn on is the Drag and Drop Text
| | 02:02 | Editing in Layout View. If you like
Drag and Drop Text Editing, then you should
| | 02:07 | turn it on in Layout View. I don't
like it on in Layout View, I just make too
| | 02:11 | many mistakes when it's on. So I only
have it turned on in Story Editor. I like
| | 02:15 | that default setting.
| | 02:16 | Now I'm going to skip down to the
Units & Increments pane and I want to point
| | 02:20 | out the Size/Leading field. This lets
you set the amount that InDesign will
| | 02:24 | increase or decrease your text size
when you use the keyboard shortcuts for
| | 02:28 | those features. To me, 2 is just too
large so I set this to 1. That just makes
| | 02:33 | it a little bit more fine-tuned control.
| | 02:35 | I also change the Kerning/Tracking
value from 20 down to 10. That way when I'm
| | 02:40 | using the keyboard shortcut for
Kerning/Tracking, it's not quite such large
| | 02:44 | increments. Don't set this to 1,
however. That's just way too small.
| | 02:48 | Next, I'm going to jump all the way
down to Story Editor Display. I love the
| | 02:52 | Story Editor in InDesign but I hate
the default font that they are using to
| | 02:55 | display text. This Letter Gothic to me
is almost unreadable. The whole point of
| | 03:00 | Story Editor is to make it really
easy to read the text. So I always change
| | 03:04 | this to something easier on the eye,
like maybe Georgia. Let's change the size
| | 03:08 | of this text to something
easier to read like 16 points.
| | 03:11 | Next, I'll go to the Display
Performance pane. There is a couple of things
| | 03:14 | I almost always change here. The first is
Greek Type Below. When InDesign Greeks
| | 03:19 | small text, it means it displays it as
a gray bar. That lets it display faster
| | 03:24 | on old machines, but the default value
is 7 points. That means 5 and 6 point
| | 03:29 | text completely grays out, that's
ridiculous. So I always change this to
| | 03:34 | something smaller like 3 points.
| | 03:36 | But I want to point something out
important here. If I change the Greek Type
| | 03:39 | Below value here, it only changes it
for the Typical display, it does not
| | 03:44 | change it for High Quality display. To
do that, I need to choose High Quality
| | 03:48 | from the Adjust View Settings popup menu
and then change Greek Type Below again.
| | 03:53 | The other thing that I usually change
here is the Preserve Object-Level Display
| | 03:57 | Settings. That way if I do tell a
single object to display in High Quality view
| | 04:01 | instead of Typical view, then InDesign
will remember that even after I close
| | 04:06 | the document and reopen it.
| | 04:07 | The last thing in this dialog box that
I want to point out is in the Appearance
| | 04:10 | of Black pane. By default, InDesign
shows all black as solid black. That means
| | 04:16 | 100% black and rich black, that is,
black with some other colors mixed in, both
| | 04:21 | look the same. I can see that here
because On Screen, it's set to Display All
| | 04:25 | Blacks as Rich Black.
| | 04:27 | Some people don't like that, some
people want 100% black to look more
| | 04:31 | realistic, like a charcoal black
because black ink isn't usually totally solid
| | 04:36 | black. If you are one of those people,
then go ahead and change On Screen to
| | 04:40 | Display All Blacks Accurately. I'll
cleave this set to the way it is for right
| | 04:44 | now and I'll just click OK. I want to
show you a few more preferences that I
| | 04:48 | like to set up when I'm
first installing InDesign.
| | 04:50 | I will go to the Swatches panel and
from the flyout menu, choose Ink Manager.
| | 04:55 | In the Ink Manager dialog box, I'm
going to turn on Use Standard Lab Values for
| | 04:59 | Spots. That way if I do use a spot color,
like a Pantone color, I'll get a much
| | 05:04 | more accurate On Screen and
proof simulation of that spot color.
| | 05:08 | The other thing I like to do here is
set up some swatches that I know I'm going
| | 05:11 | to be using in the future. For example,
if your corporate color is Pantone 286
| | 05:15 | and you know you always want it in your
new documents, go ahead and choose New
| | 05:19 | Color Swatch and add it to your
Swatches panel while no documents are open.
| | 05:23 | I will choose Color Type, Spot, pick
up the Pantone color here, type 286 and
| | 05:30 | click OK. That adds it to the bottom
of my Swatches panel. You can do other
| | 05:35 | customization here as well. Because
Pantone 286 is so important to me, I'm just
| | 05:39 | going to drag it up to the top of my
list. I can also drag Registration down to
| | 05:44 | the bottom. I always like to do that
because I don't want to accidentally Click
| | 05:47 | on that Registration color.
| | 05:49 | I could also delete colors out of this
list by just dragging them right into
| | 05:53 | the trash. Now that dark blue color
will not be in any new documents I create
| | 05:57 | in InDesign. However, note that when
I dragged it into the trash, I first
| | 06:01 | Clicked on it, and when I Clicked on
it, it became my new default color.
| | 06:05 | Anything you Click on when nothing is
selected becomes a default. So that blue
| | 06:10 | is now my default Fill Color. So I
better come up here and click on None. So
| | 06:14 | now when I create a new document, my
default color for that document will be None.
| | 06:19 | So those are the preferences that I
always change when I'm setting up InDesign.
| | 06:22 | Remember, the rule is, take the time
now to set up your preferences the way
| | 06:27 | that you want them and you will
save even more time in the future.
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| 2. Don't edit anything called "basic"| 00:05 | InDesign has four things that it calls
a Basic Style. For example, in the Table
| | 00:10 | Styles panel, there is Basic Table.
In the Paragraph Styles panel, there is
| | 00:14 | Basic Paragraph and in the Object Styles
panel, there are two different basic things,
| | 00:18 | Basic Text Frame
and Basic Graphics Frame.
| | 00:21 | Actually, just to let you in on the
little secret here, this has nothing to do
| | 00:25 | with graphics frames. I don't know
why they call it Basic Graphics Frame,
| | 00:28 | because this is not applied to
graphics like images. This is applied to the
| | 00:32 | unassigned frames, the ones you get
with these tools, Rectangle, Ellipse and
| | 00:35 | Polygon, not the ones you get with that
X through it, with the Rectangle Frame,
| | 00:40 | Ellipse and Polygon Frame tool.
Those are not assigned the Basic Graphics
| | 00:43 | Frame, it's just these unassigned ones.
| | 00:46 | Anyway, whatever the case, the
important thing is that InDesign has four basic
| | 00:50 | types of styles. It's very tempting to
edit them. The one that most people try
| | 00:55 | and edit is the Basic Paragraph Style.
They think, well, my basic style in this
| | 01:01 | document should be Myriad, let's say,
12 points and so on and so on. So they
| | 01:05 | edit the Basic Paragraph Style. Don't
do it. You are just going to get yourself
| | 01:10 | into trouble if you do.
| | 01:11 | Let me show you an example of why.
I'm going to zoom in on this frame down
| | 01:15 | here, just so you can see it better.
I'm going to select that whole frame,
| | 01:18 | it's yellow, it has formatted text
in it. I'm going to copy it to the
| | 01:22 | clipboard. Let me go and copy it from
the Edit menu. Now I'm going to create a
| | 01:25 | new document. I'll just
choose the basic defaults here.
| | 01:29 | Now I'm going to paste that text
frame into this document. So what happens?
| | 01:34 | Well, it looks like all the
formatting got stripped out. Look at that,
| | 01:38 | what happened to the yellow? What happened
to the font and all of that? Isn't Copy
| | 01:42 | and Paste supposed to maintain the
formatting? Well, it did but it only
| | 01:46 | maintained the Style formatting.
| | 01:48 | This text frame had the Basic Text
Frame style applied to it. Because the Basic
| | 01:54 | Text Frame style in that document is
different than the Basic Text Frame style
| | 01:58 | in this document. It threw the old one
away and it applied the new style from
| | 02:04 | this document. Same thing with the
Basic Paragraph Style of the text.
| | 02:08 | This paragraph up here is assigned to the
Basic Paragraph Style, but the Basic
| | 02:13 | Paragraph Style definition in this
document was different. So it used a new
| | 02:18 | definition, not the old one.
| | 02:20 | Now what about this paragraph down here?
Well, this did get the Body Paragraph
| | 02:24 | Style applied to it, just like it
should have been, so why did it chang so
| | 02:27 | radically? Well, let's Double-Click
on it and we can see that the Body
| | 02:31 | Paragraph Style here was based on
Basic Paragraph. So when Basic Paragraph
| | 02:37 | changed, then Body changed too.
| | 02:42 | Let's go back to that other document
here and I can see that yes, indeed this
| | 02:46 | had Basic applied and this had Body
applied. If I select this frame with the
| | 02:51 | Selection tool and look at the
Object Style, it had the Basic Text Frame
| | 02:55 | applied to it. So that is a problem. So
what do you do instead of editing your
| | 03:00 | Basic Paragraph Style?
| | 03:01 | Well, you make your own Paragraph Styles.
Just make any Paragraph Style and you
| | 03:05 | can set it up as a default style by
deselecting everything on your page.
| | 03:10 | That's a Command+Shift+A or Ctrl+Shift+A on
Windows. Then Click on the style that you
| | 03:16 | want applied. Here I'm going to
Click on Body and now that becomes my new
| | 03:21 | default style. It is sort of like a
Basic Paragraph became now whenever
| | 03:25 | I create a text frame and start typing
in it, it will automatically get
| | 03:28 | the Body Style applied to it.
| | 03:30 | So once again, the rules are, don't
edit your Basic Paragraph Style or any of
| | 03:35 | the other styles that are called Basic,
make your own styles. Don't base any
| | 03:41 | new styles on Basic Paragraph or Basic
Styles, because you are just going to
| | 03:45 | get yourself in trouble sooner or later.
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| 3. How to strip out unwanted text formatting| 00:05 | I am going to share with you one of
the most important tips I know regarding
| | 00:09 | importing text into InDesign, stripping
out the formatting that you don't want
| | 00:13 | and keeping the formatting that you do.
| | 00:15 | Here I have a template that I want to
place some text into. So I'll go to the
| | 00:19 | File menu, choose Place, pick my .rtf
file and Click Open. Now I'm going to
| | 00:23 | Click on this text frame and the text
flows into this threaded frame. Let me
| | 00:28 | zoom in here for a minute and I can
see that at first glance, it looks pretty
| | 00:31 | good. There seems to be a lot of
formatting, the paragraphs seem to be
| | 00:34 | formatted properly and I have got some
text in italics and so on, but here's a problem.
| | 00:39 | If I open the Paragraph Styles panel
and I click on some of the text, I just
| | 00:43 | Double-Click to switch the Type tool,
I see there's a plus sign here after the
| | 00:47 | word, Body. If I Click up here in the
sub-head, there is a plus sign over here.
| | 00:51 | So what does that mean? In fact,
everywhere I Click, there is always a plus
| | 00:55 | sign. Well, that means that there is
local formatting applied everywhere,
| | 01:00 | this whole document has local
formatting applied to it.
| | 01:03 | Here is a little trick. I'm going to
hover my cursor over the Paragraph Style
| | 01:07 | with the plus sign and a tool tip
shows me what the local formatting is.
| | 01:11 | It says it's too big and there is tracking
applied to it. This often happens when
| | 01:16 | editors working in something like
Microsoft Word, select everything in the file
| | 01:20 | and make it bigger or maybe they
change the font, so they can read it more easily.
| | 01:24 | It doesn't seem like that big of a
deal to them at the time, but when you
| | 01:28 | import the file, all the local
formatting they put in there gets applied to the
| | 01:32 | text in InDesign. So it's kind of a
disaster. I wish there's a way to strip out
| | 01:37 | all that local formatting and in fact, there is.
| | 01:40 | I am going to select the whole story
with the Command+A or Ctrl+A on Windows.
| | 01:43 | Now go down to the bottom of the
Paragraph Styles panel and Click on the Clear
| | 01:47 | Overrides button. That's that little
one with a little paragraph symbol, a plus
| | 01:51 | ,
and a red line through it and you
can see that this stripped out all the
| | 01:55 | local formatting through the entire story.
It looks much better now and I don't have
| | 02:00 | that little plus sign anywhere anymore.
| | 02:02 | That's okay, except there is one
problem. It stripped out all the local
| | 02:06 | formatting, even the text that was
italic for emphasis. Well, that's a problem.
| | 02:11 | What I really need is a way to strip
out most of the local formatting, all the
| | 02:15 | stuff I don't want, but keep some of
the local formatting like italics. Can you
| | 02:20 | do that? Absolutely. Let me show you how.
| | 02:23 | I am going to Undo that Command+Z or
Ctrl+Z on Windows and I'm going to apply a
| | 02:27 | character style to the text
that I want to stay in italics.
| | 02:31 | So I'll go to the Character Styles
panel. I'm going to create a new character
| | 02:34 | style, I'll just call it Italic and
I'm going to go to the Basic Character
| | 02:39 | Formats pane of the New Character
Style dialog box. I'll strip out all this
| | 02:43 | stuff, I don't want anything applied
to this character style except for the
| | 02:48 | Font Style to be Italic.
| | 02:50 | I just type I-T and it guessed Italic.
That's right; that's just what I want.
| | 02:54 | I'll go back to General and I can
see that this Italic character style is
| | 02:58 | simply going to apply the Italic
style to whatever it's applied to.
| | 03:02 | So, that's the first step. I'll Click
OK, I have got Italic in the Character
| | 03:06 | Styles panel, looks good. Now, how am I
going to apply that character style to
| | 03:11 | all the text that's in italic? It would
be really tedious to have to go to and
| | 03:15 | select the text and Click on the
styles, select the text and Click on the
| | 03:17 | styles, and so on. You don't have to
do that; that's what Find/Change is for.
| | 03:22 | I am going to open the Find/Change
dialog box with the Command+F or Ctrl+F on
| | 03:25 | Windows and I'm going to leave Find
what and Change to blank and I'm going to
| | 03:29 | focus instead on the formatting at
the bottom. I'll Click in the blank Find
| | 03:33 | Format area and I'm going to say find
anything in which the Basic Character
| | 03:38 | Formats is Font Style, Italic. I-T, it
guessed Italic, looks good. Click OK.
| | 03:44 | So find anything that's italic and
change it, just Clicking out blank area down
| | 03:49 | there, change it to the character style,
Italic. That's what I want. Click OK,
| | 03:55 | Click Change All, went through the
entire document and changed all of them.
| | 03:59 | So I'll Click Done to close that and we
will see that wherever I Click in some
| | 04:02 | italic text, it has a character style
applied into it now. So that's good.
| | 04:07 | Now I can select everything with the
Command+A or Ctrl+A on Windows, go to the
| | 04:11 | bottom of the Paragraph Style and
clear the overrides and everything is
| | 04:15 | stripped out except for the italic text.
The italic text had a character style
| | 04:20 | applied to it, so it is not stripped
out with that Clear Overrides button.
| | 04:24 | Okay, so here's is your standard
workflow; whenever you import some text that
| | 04:28 | has local overrides throughout the whole
thing, make sure you apply character styles
| | 04:32 | to the text that you want to keep
formatted like the italic text and don't
| | 04:35 | forget to use that Find/Change dialog
box to do that efficiently, and then
| | 04:39 | Select All, hit Clear
Overrides and you are good to go.
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| 4. Watch out for default formatting| 00:05 | Have you ever had a situation where
you just can't format text or objects
| | 00:08 | the way you wanted to? It's a real
problem, but there is a real solution.
| | 00:12 | It almost always has to do with default
formatting, but it's not always obvious
| | 00:17 | where to look. Let me show you.
| | 00:18 | I am going to create a text frame out
here and I'll zoom into 400% to move just
| | 00:23 | out of the way and just type some
words in here, HELLO WORLD! All right, well
| | 00:27 | that looks pretty good, except that's
in the wrong font. So I'm not sure what's
| | 00:31 | going on there. Why don't I go to the
Paragraph Styles panel and I'll see that
| | 00:34 | there's a plus sign. All right,
that's all right, there is some local
| | 00:37 | formatting. So I remove the local
formatting and nothing changes. This is a
| | 00:43 | situation that so many people run into.
No matter what they do, they can't
| | 00:47 | change the formatting. For example,
I'll Click on Basic Paragraph, well,
| | 00:51 | that definitely should have changed
the formatting, but it didn't;
| | 00:54 | it's still the same formatting.
| | 00:55 | What is going on there? Well, I'll
tell you what's going on. There is a
| | 00:59 | character style applied to it and
character style formatting does not show up
| | 01:03 | as a plus sign in the Paragraph Styles
panel. Very frustrating. So I'm going to
| | 01:07 | select everything here, go to the
Character Styles panel and set the character
| | 01:12 | style to None. That does it.
That removes the character style.
| | 01:18 | Okay, let me show you one more example
of when this really becomes a problem.
| | 01:21 | I'm going to select the text frame over
here and use the Command+D or Ctrl+D on
| | 01:26 | Windows, keyboard shortcut to place
this .rtf file into this text frame. Well,
| | 01:32 | I know there is a lot of local
formatting there, so once again, I'll select
| | 01:35 | all, go to my Paragraph Styles and
strip it out, and here we go again. It's all
| | 01:40 | the wrong font and that's definitely
the wrong font; everything looks like a sub-head.
| | 01:45 | So I look in here and there is no local
formatting, but once again as soon as I
| | 01:49 | look at Character Styles, everything
has this character style applied to it.
| | 01:55 | That is so frustrating. So I'm going to
select everything and Click on None and
| | 02:00 | that strips out that character style
and it sets up the way it's supposed to look.
| | 02:04 | But now there is a bigger question.
Why is that character style being applied
| | 02:08 | to everything? Well, it's because its
default formatting, and this is a very
| | 02:13 | important concept in InDesign, the
concept of default formatting. Default
| | 02:16 | formatting means anything that's applied,
while no objects were selected on the page.
| | 02:22 | So I'm going to deselect everything.
Command Shift+A or Ctrl+Shift+A deselects
| | 02:26 | everything and while nothing is
selected, we can look around and see what the
| | 02:30 | default formatting is for this document.
| | 02:32 | As soon as we look at the Character
Styles panel, we see that indeed this
| | 02:36 | character style was applied while
nothing was selected. So if I want to fix
| | 02:41 | that problem, I simply click on
None while nothing is selected.
| | 02:45 | Now None is my new default formatting.
In fact, I generally recommend that
| | 02:49 | people look at that Character Styles
panel before typing or placing text, just
| | 02:53 | in case to make sure it's set to None.
| | 02:55 | Let me show you another example of
when this becomes a problem. I'm going to
| | 02:59 | draw a line with my Line tool and I'm
just going to draw right cross the top of
| | 03:03 | this frame and oops! It's disappeared.
What happened? Where did it go? Well, the
| | 03:08 | line is there; we just can't see it, why,
because it has a stroke of None. Why
| | 03:14 | does it have a stroke of None,
because someone sometime must have set it to
| | 03:18 | None while no objects were selected on
the page. So they changed the default
| | 03:22 | formatting of this particular document.
| | 03:25 | You have to watch out for that. So
once again, I'm going to delete that,
| | 03:28 | deselect everything on the page
with that little Command+Shift+A or
| | 03:32 | Ctrl+Shift+A and now, I'm going to
teach you a new keyboard shortcut, D.
| | 03:37 | The D keyboard shortcut sets the Fill &
Stroke back to their default settings of No
| | 03:42 | Fill and one point stroke.
| | 03:43 | Now when I draw my line, I get what I
expected; a one point line right in the
| | 03:48 | middle of the page. So be careful what
you change when nothing is selected on
| | 03:52 | your page, because you are changing
your default formatting and changing the
| | 03:55 | default formatting can really help you
or it can really come back and bite you.
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| 5. Editing the keyboard shortcuts| 00:05 | InDesign already has dozens of
keyboard shortcuts that you can use, but there
| | 00:09 | are hundreds of features in the
program that don't yet have a keyboard
| | 00:12 | shortcut. If those are the features
that you use, wouldn't it be a good idea to
| | 00:16 | apply a keyboard shortcut to those? Well,
you can do that in the Edit Keyboard
| | 00:20 | Shortcuts dialog box.
| | 00:21 | I will show you an example of a
keyboard shortcut that you may want to add.
| | 00:25 | Let me zoom in on this text frame down
here, and I'm going to Double-Click to
| | 00:29 | switch to the Type tool, and now you
can see that I can type here, you can type
| | 00:33 | inside that text frame like usual.
| | 00:35 | Well, what if as I'm typing, I want to
switch into the Preview Mode? Well, the
| | 00:39 | typical keyboard shortcut for that is
the W key. So I'll just hit W. Now as you
| | 00:44 | can see that obviously it doesn't work,
because I'm just typing the letter W.
| | 00:47 | When you are editing inside of a text
frame, you can't use any of the keyboard
| | 00:50 | shortcuts for any of the tools in the
panel or any of the other features in the
| | 00:53 | tool panel, like Preview
Mode. Well, that's a problem.
| | 00:56 | So let's go ahead and delete that and
I'm going to add a new keyboard shortcut
| | 01:00 | so that I can actually go into Preview
Mode, even when I'm editing text. To do
| | 01:05 | that, I'll go to the Edit menu,
and I'll choose keyboard shortcuts.
| | 01:09 | In the upper-left corner of the
Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box, you'll see that
| | 01:12 | the Set is set to Default. You don't
want to change the Default. So instead,
| | 01:17 | create a new set by
Clicking on the New Set button.
| | 01:20 | Now I'm going to call this My Lynda.com
Set, you can call it anything you want
| | 01:25 | of course. I'll Click OK. And the next
thing we need to do is figure out what
| | 01:29 | product area that feature is in. In
this case, I know it's a feature that's in
| | 01:34 | the tool panel, so I'll go down to the
tool product area, and then I'll just
| | 01:38 | scroll down this list until I see the
feature I want. Here it is, Toggle view
| | 01:44 | setting between default and preview.
And the current shortcut for this is W.
| | 01:49 | I am going to create a new keyboard
shortcut for this. So I'm going to Click in
| | 01:52 | the New Shortcut field, and I'll type
let's say Ctrl+Option+W. Well, it says
| | 01:57 | that it's currently unassigned, so
it's free for me to use. When I Click the
| | 02:01 | Assign button, it shows up
in the Current Shortcuts list.
| | 02:05 | Notice that I now have two different
keyboard shortcuts for the same thing.
| | 02:09 | That's okay, no problem, they'll both
work. I'll Click OK and let's try it.
| | 02:15 | I'm typing away just random text in here,
and now when I want to go into Preview
| | 02:19 | Mode, I'll try the keyboard shortcut
that I used, and it worked. The frame
| | 02:23 | edges disappeared, and it's a much
cleaner look on page. I'll press it again,
| | 02:27 | and I'll come out of Preview Mode
into the Normal Mode and now I can see my
| | 02:30 | guides and frame edges again.
| | 02:31 | Let' look at a couple of other
things that you might want to apply with a
| | 02:34 | custom keyboard shortcut. What if I
change these to one-quarter exotic, and
| | 02:38 | three-quarter salty, but I actually
want to use real fraction formatting for
| | 02:42 | those fractions.
| | 02:43 | Normally, I would have to select the
fraction and go all the way up to the
| | 02:47 | control panel flyout menu, down to the
OpenType submenu and choose Fractions.
| | 02:52 | Well, if I only had one or two to do,
that wouldn't be such a big deal, but if
| | 02:55 | I were doing fractions all the time,
that would be a real hassle. It would be
| | 02:59 | better to apply a keyboard shortcut to
this feature. So let's go ahead and try it.
| | 03:03 | Edit, Keyboard Shortcuts. Now I have
to find which Product Area the Fraction
| | 03:09 | feature is in, and that actually is
going to cause me a little difficulty,
| | 03:12 | I'm not sure where to look.
| | 03:14 | Well, here is a trick. Go over here and
Click the Show Set button. When you do that,
| | 03:19 | it writes the current keyboard
set to disk as a text file, and then
| | 03:23 | automatically opens it in your
default Text Editor. On the Mac it's usually
| | 03:27 | TextEdit, on Windows it is usually Notepad.
| | 03:29 | Now all I have to do is search this
file for the feature I'm looking for. In
| | 03:34 | this case, it's Fraction. So I'll press
Command+F or Ctrl+F on Windows to open
| | 03:38 | the Find dialog box, and I'm going to
say Find Fraction. Click Find Next and
| | 03:44 | there it is, Character: OpenType:
Fractions. And you can see right here that it
| | 03:48 | says none defined. So there is no
keyboard shortcut already applied to that.
| | 03:52 | Let's go ahead and close that.
| | 03:54 | What we need to do now is scroll up
to the top part of this grouping in the
| | 03:58 | list and find out what Product area
it's in. After I scroll up a little bit, I
| | 04:03 | see that the Product area is called
panel menus. That's all I needed to know.
| | 04:08 | Now I can come back to InDesign and
choose Panel Menus from the Product Area
| | 04:13 | menu. I'll scroll down here until I see
the feature I need, select it and I can
| | 04:20 | see that there is no current shortcut
here. So I'll give it one. I just type
| | 04:25 | the keyboard shortcut that I think I'm
going to remember, I'll see that it's
| | 04:28 | unassigned, so I Click the Assign
button. Don't forget to Click Assign or it
| | 04:32 | won't work, then I'll Click OK.
| | 04:34 | Let's try it out. I'll press the
keyboard shortcut while that text is selected,
| | 04:39 | and it turned into a true fraction.
Select this, hit the keyboard shortcut and
| | 04:43 | it changed.
| | 04:45 | Adobe is fully aware that they have no
idea which features you use the most.
| | 04:49 | That's why they gave you the Edit
Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box, so that you
| | 04:53 | can customize InDesign to the way that you work.
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| 6. Let InDesign do the math| 00:05 | I would like to move this image over to
the left 4 millimeters. Can I do that?
| | 00:09 | Sure, I'll just go up to the control
panel and I'll see that this is currently
| | 00:12 | set to 99 picas, 9.167 points.
So what am I going to do?
| | 00:17 | Well, I could pull out a calculator
and convert the millimeters to points and
| | 00:22 | then do the math on the calculator
and so on, or I could just lean back and
| | 00:26 | relax and let InDesign do the math for
me. That would be easier. Yes it's true.
| | 00:31 | InDesign can do the math for you. It's
a computer, let it do the work for you.
| | 00:36 | So how do you do it? If I want to move
this over 4 millimeters, I simply Click
| | 00:40 | to the right of that number in the
X field and say minus 4mm; minus 4
| | 00:45 | millimeters, and notice that I'm
combining picas and millimeters in the same
| | 00:49 | field, that's okay. It can do the math.
Hit Enter and it moves over exactly 4
| | 00:55 | millimeters. And this is not just the X
and Y fields of the control panel, this
| | 00:59 | is any panel or any dialog box in the
whole program. If you see a number,
| | 01:03 | you can do math there.
| | 01:05 | So let's say your art director comes to
you and says, I need a new document and
| | 01:09 | it has to be half the height of a
regular Letter size page, and it has to be 3
| | 01:14 | and 15/16 inches wide. What do you do,
do you panic? No, you just go to the
| | 01:19 | File menu, choose New Document and you
say the Height is to be half of a Letter
| | 01:24 | size page, right? So what's half of 66
pica, you can just say divide it by 2;
| | 01:29 | the divided is the Slash key. So
that's half the height, and now we need to
| | 01:34 | change the Width. If I Click in
any other field or just hit Tab,
| | 01:38 | it does the math for me.
| | 01:39 | Now I'll go to the Width field and
type in 3 and 15/16 inches, but you can't
| | 01:44 | type all of that in one go, you have
to break it up. First I need to do 15/16
| | 01:49 | inches and then I hit the Tab key and
it does the math for that part of it.
| | 01:54 | Now I'll go back and I'll say add 3
inches, hit Tab again, and you can see it
| | 02:00 | does the math. So I have got 3, and 15
/16 inches wide by half of the Letter
| | 02:05 | size page, Click OK, and I'm good to go.
| | 02:08 | Letting InDesign do the math for you
can save your time and make your layouts
| | 02:11 | far more precise.
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| 7. Troubleshooting documents| 00:05 | Sooner or later something is going to
go wrong, either with InDesign or your
| | 00:09 | InDesign document. So before you panic
and pull all your hair out, it's a good
| | 00:13 | idea to learn a few troubleshooting techniques.
| | 00:17 | Let's say something has gone wrong
with this file. I don't know, maybe
| | 00:20 | you can't delete a color swatch out of
the Swatches panel or maybe the pasteboard
| | 00:24 | has grown incredibly large. Those are
the kinds of things that can happen when
| | 00:27 | documents become slightly corrupted.
| | 00:29 | The first thing you should do, whenever
you experience any kind of weirdness in
| | 00:32 | a document, is to go to the Component
Information dialog box. The problem is
| | 00:37 | you can search through the menus all
day for that and you would never find it.
| | 00:40 | That's because it's hidden.
| | 00:42 | Here is the secret. On the Mac OS,
hold down the Command key and choose About
| | 00:46 | InDesign from the InDesign menu. In
Windows, hold down the Ctrl key and choose
| | 00:52 | About InDesign from the Help menu.
Either way, you get the Component
| | 00:56 | Information dialog box, which just gives you
a huge amount of troubleshooting information.
| | 01:01 | The top part of the dialog box gives
you information about the application
| | 01:04 | itself, both the version, the sub-
version and even the build number. Sometimes,
| | 01:09 | if you are talking to Adobe tech
support, they are going to ask you for that
| | 01:12 | kind of information. This also gives
you a list of all the plug-ins that are
| | 01:15 | currently loaded in InDesign.
| | 01:17 | The bottom half of the dialog box
gives you information about this particular
| | 01:20 | document that's open. Most of this is
just way too technical and you are not
| | 01:25 | going to need it, but there are a few
things that are really interesting about
| | 01:28 | this. For example, it shows you a list
of all the missing plug-ins. These are
| | 01:32 | plug-ins that were used when
I first created this document,
| | 01:36 | but aren't currently here.
| | 01:37 | Usually, that's not a problem but it
could be. So it's a good thing to know
| | 01:41 | about, but I think the most interesting
part of this dialog box is the Document
| | 01:44 | History. Here is where you can find
information, such as is this a recovered
| | 01:48 | file? That is, was it recovered
after a crash? In this case, No.
| | 01:53 | Was it converted? That is, was this
originally a document that was created in an
| | 01:57 | earlier version of InDesign? Yes, it was.
| | 02:00 | One of the most important things you
can know about a document is, was it
| | 02:03 | created from QuarkXPress or PageMaker?
This will tell you, yes or no. In this case,
| | 02:08 | it wasn't. Then if I scroll down
this list, you can see that InDesign has
| | 02:12 | saved a total document history. For
example, when was this document first created?
| | 02:16 | Then every Save As since then.
| | 02:19 | If this is too much information, you
can even write this log file out to disk
| | 02:23 | by Clicking on this button. If your
document was converted from QuarkXPress or
| | 02:26 | PageMaker, or if you still don't know
what might be wrong with the document,
| | 02:30 | go ahead and Click OK and
here is what you should do.
| | 02:32 | You want to export it to an IDML file
or an INX file. To do that, go to the
| | 02:37 | File menu and choose Export. In the
Export dialog box, choose either IDML or
| | 02:43 | INX. In InDesign CS3, there was only
INX, but in CS4, we have both INX and
| | 02:49 | IDML. IDML is probably more robust.
That's the one I'll choose here. I'll Click
| | 02:54 | Save and it saved the IDML
file off on to the Desktop.
| | 02:57 | Once you have saved your IDML file, go
ahead and open it again. When you open
| | 03:02 | an IDML or an INX file back in
InDesign, it literally re-builds the whole
| | 03:07 | document from scratch. It's that though
you really quickly imported the images
| | 03:11 | and laid out all the text. Note that it even
opens as an Untitled document, it's brand new.
| | 03:15 | Let's check out the Component
Information dialog box. In the Document Info
| | 03:20 | area, you can see that all the missing
plug-ins are gone. It wasn't converted
| | 03:24 | from anything and this was actually
originally opened from an InDesign
| | 03:28 | Interchange file. Now if that still
doesn't clear up the problem or you suspect
| | 03:32 | that the problem is application wide
rather than corruption in the document,
| | 03:36 | then here is what you should do.
| | 03:37 | I am going to go ahead and quit out
of InDesign here and I won't save these
| | 03:41 | documents. Now I'm going to relaunch
InDesign. Just launch InDesign as you
| | 03:46 | normally would. Here on the Mac, I'll
start it from the dock; on Windows, you
| | 03:50 | might start it from the Start menu.
| | 03:51 | But in either case, as soon as you
start it, hold down all the modifier keys.
| | 03:56 | That is, on the Mac, hold down Command+
Option+Shift+Ctrl and on Windows,
| | 04:01 | hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift.
| | 04:04 | If you hold them down quickly enough
and keep holding them down, you should see
| | 04:07 | this dialog box, Delete InDesign
Preference files? Go ahead and click Yes.
| | 04:12 | It will wipe out all of the preferences
files in InDesign and rebuild new clean ones.
| | 04:19 | When you rebuild InDesign's
preferences, you do loose any of the custom
| | 04:22 | preferences you might have made, but
in my mind, that's a small price to pay
| | 04:26 | for getting InDesign running
smoothly again and for peace of mind.
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| 8. Changing page size with Layout Adjustment| 00:00 | I would like to move the top margin on
this first page of the document, down to
| | 00:09 | be flush with the top of these text
frames. So I'll go to the Pages panel,
| | 00:13 | make sure that just page 1 is selected in
here. Then go to the Layout menu and
| | 00:18 | choose Margins and Columns.
| | 00:19 | Because I only want to change one margin,
I'll make sure that this little chain
| | 00:23 | link icon is unlinked. Now I can change
the top margin to 14 centimeters.
| | 00:29 | Click OK and you can see that the margin moves down,
but nothing else on my page was affected.
| | 00:34 | Now let's go look at the second spread.
I sure would like to add a running head
| | 00:37 | along the top of this page, but I
just didn't give myself enough space.
| | 00:41 | So here, I need to move the margins and
the text frames down. Because I want to
| | 00:45 | effect all my document pages, it's
faster just to change my master page.
| | 00:49 | So I'll click once on my Master in
the Pages panel. You don't have to Click
| | 00:53 | twice and actually go to the Master
page in order to do this, just Clicking
| | 00:57 | once targets it. So now any change I
make in the Layout menu will affect that
| | 01:01 | Master. I'll choose Margins and
Columns, check to make sure that link is
| | 01:05 | unlinked and then set this to 5 centimeters.
| | 01:09 | When I turn the Preview check box
turned on, you can see that this is what I
| | 01:13 | would get if I clicked OK. The margin
moved down but the text frames did not.
| | 01:19 | So that's not giving me the effect I
want. I'll hit Cancel and let's see what
| | 01:23 | we can do to make InDesign
actually move the text objects as well.
| | 01:27 | The trick is a little feature called
Layout Adjustment. If I choose Layout
| | 01:31 | Adjustment and then turn on the Enable
Layout Adjustment check box and Click
| | 01:35 | OK, I have just told InDesign that
it's okay to move the objects on my page
| | 01:39 | when the columns or
margins change. Let's try it out.
| | 01:43 | Once again, I'll make sure that
Master is selected in the Pages panel by
| | 01:46 | Clicking once on it. Go to the Layout
menu and choose Margins and Columns. Now
| | 01:51 | the Preview check box is turned on, so
I should see this immediately. I'll type
| | 01:54 | 5 cm and then hit Tab. Pressing Tab
just tells InDesign that I'm finished
| | 02:01 | typing in that frame.
| | 02:02 | The Preview shows me that the margins
and the text frames got adjusted.
| | 02:06 | That is exactly what I wanted, so I'll
click OK. Notice that each one of these
| | 02:10 | columns is a separate text frame. Now
I'm going to go back to the Margins and
| | 02:13 | Columns dialog box and set this from a
2 column layout to a 3 column layout.
| | 02:18 | I'll Click OK. Now I have a 3 column
layout but there is still separate text frames.
| | 02:24 | Layout Adjustment actually added a
text frame on each page to make up the
| | 02:28 | difference. I'm going to switch over to
another document and show you one more
| | 02:31 | radical example of Layout Adjustment.
I'll close the Pages panel and I want to
| | 02:36 | point out that this frame is
touching the margin edge and this frame is
| | 02:40 | touching the page edge.
| | 02:42 | Now I'm going to make sure that Layout
Adjustment is turned on, it is. So I'll
| | 02:47 | go to the File menu and choose Document
Setup. I'm going to make a huge change
| | 02:51 | to this document. I'm going to change
it from Landscape to Portrait. When I
| | 02:54 | Click OK, the Layout Adjustment feature
is going to do its best to re-flow the
| | 02:59 | whole page to make it make sense.
| | 03:02 | You can see that anything that was
touching the page edge or margin guide got
| | 03:05 | moved, somewhat intelligently. It is
still touching the page edge or the margin
| | 03:10 | guide, but all those things that were
not touching page edges or guides, well,
| | 03:14 | those got, kind of, moved all over
the place. Layout Adjustment tried to be
| | 03:18 | intelligent about where it moved those
things, but honestly, it just doesn't do
| | 03:22 | that good of a job, when you have
such a huge radical change to a document.
| | 03:26 | So using Layout Adjustment just to
move a margin up and down or change the
| | 03:29 | number of columns, it is great but
changing the page size radically or the
| | 03:33 | orientation like this, would I
trust layout adjustment? Not so much.
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| 9. Scaling objects| 00:05 | Here's is a few quick scaling tricks
that you need to know about. First,
| | 00:08 | you know that if you drag a corner it
crops not scales, right? Let me undo that.
| | 00:13 | Instead if I want to scale this I have
to hold down the Command on the Mac or
| | 00:16 | Ctrl key on Windows to scale it, but
that scales disproportionately. If I want
| | 00:21 | to scale the frame and the content
together but keep it proportional, I need to
| | 00:26 | hold down Command and Shift
or Ctrl and Shift while I drag.
| | 00:30 | Let me undo that and I'll show you.
Command+Shift+Drag or Ctrl+Shift+Drag will
| | 00:34 | force it to always scale proportionally,
small or large. But sometimes dragging
| | 00:40 | a frame larger or smaller is just
isn't precise enough. It would be nice
| | 00:43 | if there were keyboard
shortcuts and in fact, there are.
| | 00:46 | Command+Period or Ctrl+Period makes
them 1% larger, Command+Comma or Ctrl+Comma
| | 00:51 | on Windows makes them 1% smaller and
notice that it's scaling from the center
| | 00:56 | point of all of those objects
somewhere around here, because the reference
| | 01:00 | point in the control panel is set to
the Center. If I want to scale in larger
| | 01:04 | increments add the Option or the Alt key.
| | 01:07 | Command+Option+Period or Ctrl+Alt+
Period on Windows scales in 5% increments up.
| | 01:12 | Command+Option+Comma or Ctrl+Alt+Comma
on Windows scales in 5% down. Of course,
| | 01:17 | if I want to scale the image inside
this frame and not the frame itself, I can
| | 01:21 | also use those same keyboard shortcuts.
| | 01:23 | I'll Double-Click to switch to the
Direct Selection tool and then click on the
| | 01:27 | image to select the image
inside the frame and now once again
| | 01:30 | Command+Option+Period or Ctrl+Alt+
Period on windows scales in 5% increments up
| | 01:35 | Command+Option+Comma or Ctrl+Opt+
Comma on Windows scales in 5% down. So you
| | 01:40 | have a lot of control over fine tuning
the selection. Okay, what if I want to
| | 01:44 | scale this frame up. So that it's
exactly 120 millimeters wide.
| | 01:48 | How would I do that?
| | 01:49 | Well, intuitively you might go up to
the control panel and change the Width
| | 01:53 | field to 120 millimeters. But that
doesn't scale it, that just changes the
| | 01:58 | width, as though you sort of uncropped
it to 120 millimeters. In this case, I
| | 02:03 | want to scale it up to 120 millimeters.
So I'm going to Undo that, Command+Z or
| | 02:07 | Ctrl+Z on Windows and I'm going to
use the scaling features instead.
| | 02:12 | But you ask, those are percentages. I
don't know what percentage I should type
| | 02:16 | in there to get this to be 120
millimeters. Well, you don't have to know,
| | 02:20 | because it's a little known fact that
you can replace this percentage with an
| | 02:24 | absolute value. That is, I can type 120
millimeters into that field. Then, when
| | 02:30 | I hit Return, InDesign does the math
for me, scaling it up, so that the width
| | 02:34 | ends up at 120 millimeters.
| | 02:36 | Here, let me show you how it works on
these objects over here. I have three
| | 02:40 | graphics all grouped together and I
want to scale them up so that the width is
| | 02:44 | exactly 60 picas. If I go to the Width
field and type 60 picas it stretches the
| | 02:49 | frames but not the contents. So I'm
going to Undo that and instead come over
| | 02:53 | here to the Scaling tool and you
guessed it, type 60 picas into
| | 02:58 | the Scale field instead.
| | 03:00 | Hit Return and that scales it up,
again from the center because the reference
| | 03:04 | point was set to its center. It
scales it up, so that it's exactly 60 picas wide.
| | 03:08 | These little scaling tricks
maybe non intuitive, but if you can get them
| | 03:12 | under your belt, they can
really help you make pages fast.
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| 10. Ten quick shortcuts everyone should know| 00:05 | If you're going to be an InDesign
Power user, you have got to learn
| | 00:07 | the keyboard shortcuts. Keep your
hands on the keyboard if you want to be
| | 00:11 | efficient. But you don't have to
learn every keyboard shortcut.
| | 00:14 | Let's start with just ten.
| | 00:15 | Ten keyboard shortcuts you have got
to know. Okay, here we go. I'm going to
| | 00:19 | select this frame and this frame and I
want to change the font in both of those
| | 00:24 | to the same thing. I'm going to change
it to Minion Pro. How am I going to do it?
| | 00:27 | Well, keyboard shortcut number 1 is T,
T for the Type tool and the Type tool is
| | 00:32 | cool because even though I have
selected these frames with the Selection tool,
| | 00:36 | I can still switch to the Type tool to
change their font and if I do this it
| | 00:40 | changes the font for all the text in
all of these unthreaded frames. But how am
| | 00:44 | I going to get up to that
control panel to change them?
| | 00:47 | Well, that bring us the keyboard
shortcut number 2. Command+6. Command+6 or
| | 00:52 | Ctrl+6 on a Windows, always jumps to
the first field in the control panel. Now
| | 00:57 | I can just type Min and I'm ready or I
could make some changes as well. Maybe I
| | 01:02 | don't want it bold, maybe I want a
different font. So I can Tab forward.
| | 01:05 | You can always Tab forward and Shift+
Tab back. Let's just change this to
| | 01:09 | Regular. I just have Re and now
when I'm done making my changes,
| | 01:13 | hit Return or Enter.
| | 01:15 | Now, what if I wanted to change the
paragraph formating of this text, not the
| | 01:18 | character formating? Well, I could do
that but I need to switch over to the
| | 01:21 | Paragraph Formating Mode of the
control panel, right? How do I do it?
| | 01:25 | Command+Option+7, keyboard shortcut number 3.
| | 01:28 | Command+Option+7 or Ctrl+Alt+7 on
Windows switches between character and
| | 01:34 | paragraph or back again. It's a
toggle, it goes back and forth between
| | 01:37 | character and paragraph formating. So
now I could do again, Command+6 and
| | 01:42 | I'll Tab, Tab, Tab just a little bit to
jump over to something different.
| | 01:46 | May be I'll give this all a Drop Cap.
How about a two line Drop Cap. Okay,
| | 01:50 | that looks great. But what happens if I
now want to give that Drop Cap over here.
| | 01:55 | I want to select this text over here and
give that a Drop Cap. How do I jump back
| | 02:00 | to that same field, the same place in
the control panel? Well that's keyboard
| | 02:04 | shortcut number 4, Command+Option+~
or Ctrl+Alt+~, that's the key on the US
| | 02:10 | keyboard which is right next to the
number 1. That always takes you back to the
| | 02:14 | last used field in whatever panel you
are in. So here it jumped me right back
| | 02:19 | to the Drop Cap field and I'm going to
type 2 and going to Enter and now I have
| | 02:22 | got a Drop Cap there.
| | 02:24 | Now what if I want to zoom back and
see the whole spread at the same time.
| | 02:28 | I can't use Command+0, that just
fits the page in the Window.
| | 02:31 | But Command+Option+0 or Ctrl+Alt+0 fits the
spread in the Window. I love that one.
| | 02:37 | Very, very handy to get a bird's eye
view of the whole page. That is keyboard
| | 02:41 | shortcut number 5. Command+Option+0 or
Ctrl+Alt+0 on Windows, fits spread in window.
| | 02:46 | Okay, I want to get out of the Type
tool now and switch to the Selection tool.
| | 02:50 | I can't hit the V key because that
would actually type the letter V.
| | 02:53 | I'm editing some text right now. So
I need a different keyboard shortcut.
| | 02:57 | I need keyboard shortcut
number 6, which is Escape.
| | 03:01 | Escape when you are editing text,
Escape always switches back to the Selection tool,
| | 03:05 | isn't that cool? That's a really
handy one. Then if I want to select some
| | 03:09 | text in this frame over here I need to
get back to the Type tool, so I Double-Click.
| | 03:13 | Double-Clicking with the Selection tool
gives me the Type tool. Well, I should
| | 03:17 | say it switches to the Type tool if I
Double-Click on a text frame. But what if
| | 03:21 | I Double-Click on an image frame?
Then it does something very different.
| | 03:25 | If I Double-Click on a graphic frame or
a path or any frame that has nothing in it,
| | 03:30 | it switches to the Direct
Selection tool. This is a great way to go back
| | 03:34 | and forth between the Selection tool
and the Direct Selection tool and that is
| | 03:37 | keyboard shortcut number 7, Double-
Click. Granted Double-Clicking has nothing
| | 03:41 | to do with the keyboard for say, but
it still is a shortcut, so it counts.
| | 03:45 | Number 8 is Triple-Click. If I Double-
Click and then click one more time,
| | 03:49 | I actually select the image inside the
frame. And then if I Double-Click again,
| | 03:53 | it takes me back to the frame. So
really you could say, Triple-Click selects
| | 03:57 | the image and Double-Click it goes
back to the frame. What if I want to fill
| | 04:01 | that frame with a color instead of White?
| | 04:03 | Well, I'm going to hit the X key. Do
you see what's happening, it's pretty
| | 04:06 | subtle, look down at the bottom of the
tool panel and you'll see that the fill
| | 04:10 | and stroke icons are swapping. You can see it
even easier in the top of the Swatches panel.
| | 04:15 | Pressing X swaps the Fill and the
Stroke color. That's keyboard shortcut number nine,
| | 04:20 | and now I'm going to go ahead and
fill that with Magenta and, oh oh!
| | 04:24 | What did I do? I accidentally stroked it with
Magenta instead of filled it. I do this all
| | 04:30 | the time. It's just a very common
mistake, stroking when you need to Fill or
| | 04:33 | Fill when you need to Stroke. So what do you do?
| | 04:36 | Instead of undoing, I'm going to use
keyboard shortcut number 10, Shift+X.
| | 04:42 | Shift+X swaps the colors. So what was
the Fill color becomes the Stroke color
| | 04:47 | and what was Stroke becomes Fill.
| | 04:49 | Well, if you were paying close
attention, you have probably noticed
| | 04:51 | that I snuck in a few more than just ten
keyboard shortcuts. I can't help it,
| | 04:55 | I love keyboard shortcuts. But if you
learn these 10 plus keyboard shortcuts,
| | 05:00 | you'll be amazed that how much
faster you can layout pages.
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