From the course: InDesign Secrets
275 When the Control panel is missing controls - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
275 When the Control panel is missing controls
- [Instructor] I received a worried email from one of my clients who said that he thinks that he has a virus or InDesign is damaged because he's opened up a document and he can't find some important icons going across the top in the control bar, and he thinks the features are missing. One of them that he said was when he switches to the Type tool and he selected some text, he doesn't see the icon for paragraph shading up here. He actually has to switch over to the paragraph formatting controls where he can see the shading control, but he used to be able to see it right here. Another thing that he said was missing was when he selects an object with his selection tool, he doesn't see the dropdown menu of object styles that he normally does, whether he's selected a text frame or an image frame. Now you can't see them on mine either but it's not a glitch, as I explained to this nice man, and after a little bit of probing I found out that he's changed computers. He was using a big iMac at work and now they gave him a laptop, and that is the problem. When you don't have enough pixels to show all of the possible features in the control panel, InDesign just hides them, and when I'm recording this video we have to keep it at a fairly low resolution in order for it to show up right, so we're not seeing those icons here either. But if you're in front of your large monitor you might jump over to InDesign right now and see if you can see more icons in your control panel than me. You probably can if you have a big monitor or you have set up your monitor at a high enough resolution. What I explained to this gentleman is that you can customize what the control panel sees, so that if I really want to be able to get my object style dropdown menu to appear up here in the control panel, I can sacrifice other icons and play around with it that way. Let me show you how you do that. Go to the control panel menu and go down here to Customize. And you can see that by default it's going to try and show everything and there's a lot that it's going to try and show. So here under Object, and right now we're looking at all the object commands because I have the Selection tool selected and something selected out here, you can see that it's supposed to show Object Styles down here but it's not, and that's because there's just not enough room. Let's say that I'm hardly ever working with Flip & Rotate from the control panel. I can hide that and I might also want to turn off something else that I don't use a lot, maybe Text Wrap commands, that's this section right here. Let's see if that gives us enough room. I'll click OK, and it did, there we go. So now that those icons no longer appear in the control panel, I now have access to my dropdown menu of Object Styles. I can always go to Flip & Rotate by going to Object, Transform, and then all those commands are up here. It's just having these shortcut icons up here that is very useful to me. So if you don't have enough room in your control panel to show all of the items that you want, just go to the Customize command and turn off the items that you don't use that often, or that you don't mind going to a panel or a menu to select. Now these things will be saved if you create a custom workspace, so if I go to the Workspace dropdown menu and choose New Workspace, I'll just call this object styles in control panel, then they get saved here. Now if I switch to a different workspace, like Advanced, and I choose Reset Advanced, then they disappear, see, because it is automatically supposed to show the Flip & Rotate and the Text Wrap. I'll go back to my custom workspace and then they come back again. So if this is an issue that you're having, just fiddle with the customization controls for the control panel and save it in a custom workspace.
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229 Batch converting ID files to current version with the Book panel6m 9s
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230 Getting around InDesign limitations6m 46s
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231 Creating better callout lines with effects and object styles5m 47s
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232 Swapping column and row information in tables6m 9s
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233 Making bigger text link targets4m 52s
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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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111 Packaging images on the pasteboard3m 32s
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112 Automatically updating figure references for books6m 9s
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113 Adding Tool Tips to your form fields in InDesign3m 21s
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114 Setting poetry, flush left, center on longest line3m 54s
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115 Use bookmarks to navigate long documents in production4m 57s
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107 Using the same keyboard shortcut for two different commands with the Context feature5m 22s
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108 Making a text highlighter3m 33s
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109 Updating an interactive PDF without losing work done in Acrobat5m 30s
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110 Adding custom text at the beginning of each line automatically4m
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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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047 Specifying an exact amount of space between objects5m 17s
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048 Fixing last lines that are too short8m 16s
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049 Creating web graphics from your InDesign artwork7m 20s
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050 Using “No Language” to suppress unwanted hyphenation, spell-checking, and smart quotes2m 48s
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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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027 Creating running heads using variables5m 1s
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028 Live Caption tips and tricks8m 3s
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029 Making professional drop caps10m 37s
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030 Making two-state buttons in interactive documents5m 5s
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031 Moving pages from one document to another3m 15s
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032 Wrapping bulleted text around a curve5m 58s
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007 Selecting through and into objects using cmd-click and Select Above/Below5m 46s
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008 Some great tips and tricks for the Swatches panel9m 40s
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009 Saving down for backward compatibility with INX and IDML5m 54s
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010 Using the INX and IDML formats to fix problems4m 46s
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