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084 Checking out the Gridify tricks

084 Checking out the Gridify tricks - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

084 Checking out the Gridify tricks

Recent versions of Adobe InDesign have had this really cool feature called Gridify, that's kind of amorphous. It's not really a tool. It's not a menu command. It's just something you can do. Let me show you how useful it can be. Here's the Polygon tool, and I'm going to double-click to make sure I have my settings for a star, yes. Let's say that I want to make 50 stars. So, I start dragging out one. As you're dragging out any shape in InDesign, in InDesign CS6 and 5.5, you can tap the up arrow or the right arrow to duplicate the item that you're dragging out. So if you're dragging out a frame or a line or whatever or stars I'm doing here, as I tap the up arrow, I duplicate more vertically. As I tap the right arrow, more horizontally. So if I want to make 50, I'll do five rows and ten columns. So I'm dragging and I'm tapping, that's five, one more. There we go, 50 stars. Nice and easy. Now what governs the amount of space in between these objects, people ask me that all the time. It's…

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