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283 Use Quick Apply to Drag and Drop - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
283 Use Quick Apply to Drag and Drop
- [Instructor] Yes, yes, this is a video about an InDesign secret, but I'm just starting out in Word to show you something. I want to talk about the feature called drag and drop. Now people either love or hate drag and drop. I love drap and drop. David, my business partner hates it. This is what drag and drop is if you're like, "Huh?" In Microsoft Word drag and drop is turned on by default. Say for example that I wanted to put the word goodbye after the word adios. I don't have to select it and then tediously cut it and then click over here and paste it I could just select it and then drag and drop it right over here. Isn't that beautiful? Or I could take this word adios with the period and put it at the beginning of the word hello. Do you see that insertion bar? That's where it's telling me it's going to drop it. When I drop it right in front of the word hello it's not smart enough to add a space. Now InDesign has drag and drop and it is smart enough to add the space but it's not…
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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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