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410 Tell InDesign to do your math homework - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
410 Tell InDesign to do your math homework
- [Instructor] I want to split this A4 page into thirds, so where should I put my guides? Like I'll pull out a guide from the ruler and I'll drop it here. Now let's drop another one over here. But that's not very precise, right? To position these properly, I would need to do math, like the page height divided by three. But unless you have a calculator, that's going to be hard. Fortunately you do have a calculator, it's called InDesign. That's right. InDesign can do the calculations for you. Like I'll select this guide up here, and then up here in the control panel, I'm going to change the Y field to 297 millimeters. That's the height of an A4 page. If it were a letter page, I'd type 11 inches. Then I'll type slash and then three. Slash three means divide it by three. When I press enter or return, you can see the guide moves to exactly the right spot. Now I'll select this guide down here, go back to my Y field, and I'll…
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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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