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116 Selecting text with the InDesign keyboard dance - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
116 Selecting text with the InDesign keyboard dance
Okay. I've got to let you in on a little InDesign secret, something really weird about In Design and yet something you have to understand if you're going to become an In Design professional. It has to do with selecting text with keyboard shortcuts. And it's called doing the keyboard dance. Right now, you'll see that the flashing text cursor is in the middle of this paragraph, and you probably know that if you hold down the Shift key, and then start pressing the arrow keys on your keyboard you can start selecting text. The Shift key means select from one place to another and you can control where it's going to with the arrow keys. So, the right arrow key moves one character at a time. The down arrow key moves one line at a time. And you'll see that, because the Shift key is still held down when I change the arrow keys. I'm moving around, selecting different parts of the text. So that's easy enough. But what if I want to actually select to the left of that i. That is, I want to add to…
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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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