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Exploring conditional text

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Exploring conditional text

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Here is a cardinal rule for being efficient in InDesign: do more with less. For example, let's say this catalog will be printed and distributed in both the U.S. and UK. Now you could make two different files, but that's not very efficient, especially if you later need to make edits. You'd end up making each change twice. But there is a solution, and it's called Conditional Text. Let me show you how it works. First I'll jump to the previous spread by holding down the Option or Alt key and pressing Page Up. Then I'll click on this text frame in the lower left corner and zoom in to 200% by pressing Command+2 or Ctrl+2 on Windows. The Roux Academy has both a New York office and a London office, so I'm going to put both addresses inside this text frame. The rule with Conditional Text is and, not or, always put both in your document. I have that address sitting over on the pasteboard, so I'm just going to scroll over to the left and double- click inside this text frame. That places the…

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