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073 Working with sets in the content conveyor tool - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
073 Working with sets in the content conveyor tool
One of the interesting new features in InDesign CS6 is this thing called the Content Tools, Content Collector, Content Placer, and Content Conveyor, and they're used to grab content from one area of your InDesign document and put them elsewhere in the same document or in another document, kind of like a permanent clipboard while the InDesign document is active. The tools are right here in the Toolbar, the Content Collector Tool. The shortcut is B, and if you press B again it switches to its partner in crime, which is the Content Placer. And if I press and hold down here, you can see the Content Collector is an arrow that goes into a little bucket and the Content Placer is an arrow that comes out of the bucket. And whenever you choose either of these tools, you'll get the Content Conveyor, which is this gray thing right here. And when the Content Conveyor is active, meaning that one of these tools is active, then when you click on an object with the Content Collector it selects that…
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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