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Setting application and document preferences

Setting application and document preferences - InDesign Tutorial

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Setting application and document preferences

The more that you customize InDesign to the way that you work, the more efficient you're going to be. The primary way to customize InDesign is the Preferences Dialog Box, which you can find up here, under the InDesign menu on the Mac, and in Windows, it's at the bottom of the Edit Menu. Inside the Preferences sub menu, you'll find a bunch of different preferences that you can jump to, but it's a lot faster just to jump to the General Preferences, and you can get to all of the other ones from there. Now, if you're going to be an InDesign power user, you probably are going to go to the Preferences dialog box a lot. It's a good idea to remember the keyboard shortcut, Command+K, or Ctrl+K on Windows. However you get to the Preferences dialog box, when it opens you'll see a bunch of panes down the left side. This list of preferences is the same list that we saw just a moment ago in that sub menu. We can jump from one of these preferences panes to the next simply by clicking on them, or…

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