From the course: InDesign for Editors
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The Info panel - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign for Editors
The Info panel
- [Voiceover] InDesign's Info Panel is used for character, word, line, and paragraph counts. I've included the Info Panel in my custom Editorial Workspace. But if you don't see yours open, you'll find it under the Window Menu. So, I'm gonna insert my cursor into the story. Now, if I have a text insertion point, what I will see is a count of my whole story. If I make a selection, I see a count of just that selection. What the Info Panel is also very useful for, I've moved now to the next spread, I'll delete this frame, and then, double-click back into the previous frame, is it will tell you by how many words you are overset. So by deleting that frame, I created overset text. Clicking back into the story, I see now indicated after the plus symbol the amount of words, characters, lines, and paragraphs that are overset. Note that the counts are on a story by story basis, and they are not a tally of all the word in all stories in the document.
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