Tune into the weekly InDesign Tips for Design Geeks series for answers, how-tos, and cool discoveries to improve your design skills within InDesign and related software.
Overview
Syllabus
New This Week
- Three Windows defaults designers should modify
- Welcome to InDesign Tips for Design Geeks
- Editing images created with the Text to Image AI feature in InDesign
- Favorite fast formatting tips (no text styles required!)
- Quickly add "unknowns" to your User Dictionary
- Create and share a custom dictionary
- Finessing clunky tab leader dots
- Easily add diacritics to text
- Apply ALT text with an Object Style
- Splitting an image that spans a two-page spread
- The case of the reluctant text frame
- Make a local copy of your CC Library assets
- Speeding up image proofing, even in complex layouts
- Fixing imported PDF comments that don't map correctly
- Avoiding the "Failed to Import" alert
- Mirror or rotate a complex frame without affecting its text
- Create intertwining letters and graphics right in InDesign
- When you can't equalize spacing, use this character style trick
- Inspector in Acrobat reveals font and image info in PDFs
- Using Generative Fill in Photoshop to fix images in a layout
- Add Illustrator gradients to InDesign
- Replace formatted text with placeholder text without losing formatting
- Create a linked table of contents in your PDF
- Quickly and precisely import multiple images
- No import command in the Layers panel menu? No problem
- Find and use free InDesign templates in Adobe Stock
- Use a source layout to populate common pages in other layouts
- Last-minute changes to layouts are easy with Adjust Layout
- Create a magic default text frame
- Use your CC Libraries in Google Docs, Word, and PowerPoint
- Some of your fonts have alternate universes
- Essential free scripts: Find/change by list
- Table hacks: Making rows and columns obey your commands
- Linking to Google Docs in InDesign
- Add Pantone colors with the free Pantone Connect plugin
- Create multi-column layouts the right way
- How to turn off just one automatic ligature
- How much storage space is left in your Adobe CC subscription?
- Two ways to optically balance center-aligned headlines and pull quotes
- Figuring out the page sizes in a mixed page-size layout
- Drag and drop parent pages across layouts
- 200 free or low-cost stock photo sites
- Import PDF comments into multiple InDesign files
- Print color separations to a PDF
- Secret resources for learning InDesign
- Locating all images linked to a layout without opening InDesign
- Unearth those buried menu commands with Quick Apply
- Beware the little red dot!
- Apply object styles automatically
- Troubleshoot issues with CC Libraries
- Script to unanchor text frames
- Use the discretionary hyphen
- Import word art into InDesign
- You must back up your CC Libraries!
- Rescuing deleted CC Libraries
- Undoing the MakeGrid script
- How to anchor a text-wrapped image to the beginning of a paragraph
- Four ways to quickly save and reuse layout elements elsewhere
- Why is my button text disappearing?
- Three InDesign tips I learned from my clients in the past few months
- Design geek graduate school: Opening an IDML file to fix problems
- Make a keyboard shortcut to toggle Auto-Fit off and on
- Can't see your hidden characters? It's either an obscure setting or a prank
- How do I love thee, word count? Let me count the ways
- Oversets, begone! Make text frames autosize by default
- Add InDesign layouts to Creative Cloud Libraries
- Font recognition in images using the new Extract feature
- Slim down linked vector files for smaller PDFs
- Easily manage dozens of scripts among multiple InDesign versions
- Batch-search for InDesign files that use Adobe Type 1 fonts
- Top sites for free InDesign scripts
- Fix number kerning problems by using the Proportional Lining attribute
- Make sure original high-res images travel with CC Library items
- Navigate long InDesign layouts with these little-known keyboard shortcuts
- Start a file with a two-page spread
- Take advantage of styled Word files
- Creating reader-friendly PDFs of facing-pages documents
- Open EPUBs for editing and put them back together with this utility
- Convert guides to strokes for fun and profit
- Create backup versions of your InDesign layout every time you save using Dropbox
- Fix character spacing problems by switching kerning methods
- Add a text frame to the middle of a text thread
- View effects of master page changes on document pages immediately
- Share a single layout with multiple designers concurrently
- When to use the Balance Ragged Lines feature—and when not to
- How to convert an InDesign layout to Word format
- How to buy the fonts you love on Adobe Fonts
- Fast ways to find and fix overset text
- Tired of having to manage all the external image links? Embed them
- How to find and download public libraries to your CC libraries
- The next best things to folders for organizing master pages
- Get sharp vector art in your Publish Online files, part one
- Get sharp vector art in your Publish Online files, part two
- Three tips for flexible headlines, tabs, and tables
- No source file for an EPUB you need to redesign? No problem!
- Customize how InDesign hyphenates a particular word
- How to use InCopy with InDesign
- Best practices for PDF commenting to share with your reviewers
- Scaling images in InDesign vs. scaling them in Photoshop
- InDesign default preferences that you should change
- From my script collection: Change the language in a layout
- Illustrator graphics in InDesign: Copy/paste, or import?
- Importing the Apple HEIC image format into InDesign
- How to mix page sizes in the same layout
- What's that blue happy face icon (and other mysterious hidden characters)?
- Make the Buttons and Forms library more accessible
- Search public domain stock sites from within InDesign
- Make animated GIFs with Photoshop and InDesign
- Hide the blue highlighting in PDF forms you create from InDesign
- Automatically break long URLs without adding hyphens
- Simplify that long list of forgotten CC Libraries
- Two sort of secret tips for sending files to clients via Dropbox
- Let InDesign distribute the public link for your Share for Review
- Adding new Pantone Color book swatches to InDesign
- Use the 70,000-plus free Adobe Stock assets in your layouts
- Update the same text across multiple layouts at once
- Browsing styles of a particular character
- Acrobat and InDesign: Use the Acrobat Share tools to send out PDFs for review
- Tips for easy text extraction from old PDFs
- Export PDF document versions quickly from a single layout
- Extract high-quality images from PDFs to use in your layout
- Use the Find Color features to avoid problems on the press
- InDesign for beginners: The two tools and three commands you need to know
- InDesign for artists: Where are all the art tools?
- InDesign for marketers: Finding and using templates
Taught by
Anne-Marie Concepción
