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096 Secrets of the Info panel

096 Secrets of the Info panel - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

096 Secrets of the Info panel

When I'm working in InDesign, one of my secret weapons is the info panel. The info panel used to be a big player with InDesign, used to be parts of all sorts of workspaces. No longer. Poor thing was left behind. But it still is quite useful in many situations. Let me show you. You open up the info panel from the window menu. The info panel can tell you some information. Who cares about the position of your cursor, by the way that's what X and Y is showing. What I'm interested in is information about this document. It is showing us metadata about the document. If you have nothing selected, down here it'll tell you when it was last modified and what the final size is. But what I like to use is this field right here, Location. If you hover over it, you'll see a tooltip that gives you the path to where this exact InDesign document is stored. I'd say, though, probably the most useful thing about the Info panel is that it gives you a word count. And in one of the other tips in this video…

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