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002 Letting InDesign do the math for you

002 Letting InDesign do the math for you - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

002 Letting InDesign do the math for you

David Blatner > So my art director told me to move this image over by 1 cm, but the ruler up here is set to points. Geez well, I know that there are 72 points per inch, and I know there's 2.54 cm per inch, so I could do the calculation if I wanted to, but that would be insane! I don't need to do that. I have a computer for me and InDesign itself can do the math. This is a really important point. It's a great way to get efficient in InDesign. Let InDesign do the math for you. In this case, I want to move this over to the right one centimeter. So I'm going to go up to the x-field of the Control panel and I'm going to say +1CM. That's all I need to do, +1CM. Notice I'm mixing and matching points and centimeters. That's okay. You can mix your measurements up if you want to, not a big deal. AS soon as I hit Return or Enter it moves it over 1 cm. So this is great. I can do addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division in any field in InDesign that has a number. The Control panel, any…

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