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112 Automatically updating figure references for books - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
112 Automatically updating figure references for books
I've been writing and laying out books for over 20 years, and one of the great challenges over all that time has been figure numbering. That is, how to deal with the fact that sometimes you need to add or remove an illustration right in the middle of a chapter, and that can mess up all the figuring numbering after that page. Fortunately, InDesign makes figure numbering a breeze, if you just follow these few basic steps. In this document here, I have a figure and a caption underneath it. I want to add a figure number to that caption, so I'm going to double-click on it with the Selection tool, which switches to the Type tool. And I'll zoom in, so I can see it better with the Cmd+2 or Ctrl+2 on Windows. Now, I'm going to edit the paragraph styles. You have to use paragraph styles in order for this to work, but if you're laying out things like books, you better be using paragraph styles or else you're in all kinds of trouble. So, I'm going to open the Paragraph Styles panel, and you can…
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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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