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081 Creating a custom cross-reference format

081 Creating a custom cross-reference format - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

081 Creating a custom cross-reference format

Cross-references have been a feature in InDesign for a few versions now, but I find that a lot of people are intimated by the cross- reference dialog box and very seldom delve any deeper to customize them and out of the box, they are kind of clunky in all those quote marks surrounding everything. I want to spend a few minutes giving you some of my favorite tips to use when you're working with cross-references, especially how to apply custom cross-reference formats. In our first example, we are going to look at this trade book called History of Art. And it is very small here, but let's say that we are in Chapter 1 and we want to make a reference to Chapter 2. So now if I scroll down here and to go to Chapter 2, here's the beginning of the chapter. Now your first tip is before you even begin to create your cross-reference, make sure that you go to the destination of where you want to cross-reference to go, in this case Chapter 2, and jot down or memorize the paragraph style used…

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