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003 The indispensible Quick Apply feature

003 The indispensible Quick Apply feature - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

003 The indispensible Quick Apply feature

David Blatner> You want to get more efficient in InDesign right? After all, that's why you're watching these videos. So I'm going to let you in on a secret feature that will help speed you up no matter what you do in InDesign. For example, let's say you want to apply a paragraph style to this paragraph here. I'll place my cursor in here so it's flashing. And I want to apply a paragraph style. So normally I would go to a panel or a menu or something like that. And I don't want to do that. I want to keep my hands on the keyboard. The best way to stay efficient in InDesign is to keep your hands on the keyboard. So to do this, I'm going to bring up the Quick Apply menu. And you get that by pressing Command+ Return on the Mac or Control+Enter on Windows. And what you see is the Quick Apply menu appears. And you can place this any way you want. I'm going to move it up to the upper right corner here, so it's a little bit out of the way. And it'll remember that so the next time I bring it up…

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