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168 Change the UI languaging in InDesign CS6 and CC

168 Change the UI languaging in InDesign CS6 and CC - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

168 Change the UI languaging in InDesign CS6 and CC

- Maybe you're Swedish, but you have to work with an English version of InDesign. Or maybe you're using the Japanese version of InDesign, but you want English menus. Currently, InDesign doesn't have any way to change the UI or user interface, but there is kind of a crazy hack that will do it. However, as a far as I can tell, this particular trick only works in InDesign CS6 and InDesign CC. Right now, I'm using the U.S. version of InDesign. But I'm going to quit out of InDesign and show you the trick. First, you need to open up the InDesign program file. On the Mac, that's inside the Applications folder. On Windows, it's inside the Program Files folder. Once you have the InDesign folder open, look for a folder called Presets. I'll open that and inside here there's a folder called InDesign Shortcuts Sets. Let's double-click on that. And now there's a cryptic folder called en_US. That means I'm using the English U.S. version of InDesign. Now as it turns out, if I change that code, I…

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