InDesign Tips for Design Geeks
With Anne-Marie Concepción
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Duration: 10h 54m
Skill level: Advanced
Released: 2/5/2021
Course details
Anne-Marie “Her Geekness” Concepcion, co-founder of InDesign Secrets and Adobe-certified Creative Cloud Design and Layout instructor, hosts this weekly series exploring new ways to use InDesign and related software for creative work. Anne-Marie presents answers, how-tos, and cool discoveries for amateurs, pros, and everyone in between. She pulls in tips related to other software that designers use frequently, such as Acrobat, Photoshop, Google Docs, InCopy, and more, with a focus on how techniques in these programs can make your work in InDesign faster, easier, and more fun.
Note: Because this is an ongoing series, viewers will not receive a certificate of completion.
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Splitting an image that spans a two-page spread4m 4s
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The case of the reluctant text frame4m 28s
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Make a local copy of your CC Library assets5m 2s
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Speeding up image proofing, even in complex layouts4m 59s
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Fixing imported PDF comments that don't map correctly5m 2s
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Avoiding the "Failed to Import" alert4m 10s
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Mirror or rotate a complex frame without affecting its text3m 11s
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Create intertwining letters and graphics right in InDesign5m 20s
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When you can't equalize spacing, use this character style trick5m 59s
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Inspector in Acrobat reveals font and image info in PDFs7m 14s
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Using Generative Fill in Photoshop to fix images in a layout5m 43s
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Add Illustrator gradients to InDesign5m 59s
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Replace formatted text with placeholder text without losing formatting3m 55s
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Create a linked table of contents in your PDF4m 53s
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Quickly and precisely import multiple images5m 42s
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No import command in the Layers panel menu? No problem5m 25s
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Find and use free InDesign templates in Adobe Stock5m 51s
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Use a source layout to populate common pages in other layouts6m 34s
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Last-minute changes to layouts are easy with Adjust Layout6m 24s
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Create a magic default text frame7m 42s
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Use your CC Libraries in Google Docs, Word, and PowerPoint5m 39s
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Some of your fonts have alternate universes6m 59s
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Essential free scripts: Find/change by list6m 37s
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Table hacks: Making rows and columns obey your commands4m 57s
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Linking to Google Docs in InDesign4m 36s
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Add Pantone colors with the free Pantone Connect plugin5m 34s
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Create multi-column layouts the right way7m 28s
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How to turn off just one automatic ligature3m 32s
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How much storage space is left in your Adobe CC subscription?7m 38s
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Two ways to optically balance center-aligned headlines and pull quotes4m 44s
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Figuring out the page sizes in a mixed page-size layout5m 38s
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Drag and drop parent pages across layouts4m 55s
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200 free or low-cost stock photo sites5m 1s
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Import PDF comments into multiple InDesign files4m 39s
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Print color separations to a PDF5m 16s
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Secret resources for learning InDesign7m 30s
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Locating all images linked to a layout without opening InDesign3m 55s
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Unearth those buried menu commands with Quick Apply7m 12s
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Beware the little red dot!6m 30s
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Apply object styles automatically4m 29s
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Troubleshoot issues with CC Libraries4m 9s
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Script to unanchor text frames4m 7s
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Use the discretionary hyphen4m 58s
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Import word art into InDesign6m 40s
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You must back up your CC Libraries!5m 22s
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Rescuing deleted CC Libraries6m 48s
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Undoing the MakeGrid script2m 47s
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How to anchor a text-wrapped image to the beginning of a paragraph6m 54s
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Four ways to quickly save and reuse layout elements elsewhere11m 23s
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Why is my button text disappearing?4m 59s
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Three InDesign tips I learned from my clients in the past few months8m 56s
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Design geek graduate school: Opening an IDML file to fix problems5m 33s
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Make a keyboard shortcut to toggle Auto-Fit off and on5m 10s
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Can't see your hidden characters? It's either an obscure setting or a prank3m 52s
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How do I love thee, word count? Let me count the ways5m 31s
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Oversets, begone! Make text frames autosize by default5m 25s
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Add InDesign layouts to Creative Cloud Libraries6m 1s
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Font recognition in images using the new Extract feature4m 12s
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Slim down linked vector files for smaller PDFs6m 35s
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Easily manage dozens of scripts among multiple InDesign versions4m 55s
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Batch-search for InDesign files that use Adobe Type 1 fonts5m 3s
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Top sites for free InDesign scripts6m 39s
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Fix number kerning problems by using the Proportional Lining attribute3m 36s
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Make sure original high-res images travel with CC Library items7m 30s
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Navigate long InDesign layouts with these little-known keyboard shortcuts5m 52s
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Start a file with a two-page spread3m 54s
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Take advantage of styled Word files5m 33s
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Creating reader-friendly PDFs of facing-pages documents5m 37s
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Open EPUBs for editing and put them back together with this utility4m 8s
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Convert guides to strokes for fun and profit4m 48s
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Create backup versions of your InDesign layout every time you save using Dropbox6m 8s
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Fix character spacing problems by switching kerning methods4m 53s
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Add a text frame to the middle of a text thread6m 1s
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View effects of master page changes on document pages immediately3m 44s
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Share a single layout with multiple designers concurrently4m 24s
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When to use the Balance Ragged Lines feature—and when not to4m 25s
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How to convert an InDesign layout to Word format6m 3s
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How to buy the fonts you love on Adobe Fonts4m 44s
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Fast ways to find and fix overset text5m 55s
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Tired of having to manage all the external image links? Embed them6m 2s
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How to find and download public libraries to your CC libraries4m 53s
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The next best things to folders for organizing master pages4m 4s
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Get sharp vector art in your Publish Online files, part one5m 29s
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Get sharp vector art in your Publish Online files, part two4m 45s
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Three tips for flexible headlines, tabs, and tables5m 51s
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No source file for an EPUB you need to redesign? No problem!6m 53s
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Customize how InDesign hyphenates a particular word5m 32s
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How to use InCopy with InDesign7m 12s
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Best practices for PDF commenting to share with your reviewers7m 40s
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Scaling images in InDesign vs. scaling them in Photoshop6m 51s
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InDesign default preferences that you should change6m 34s
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From my script collection: Change the language in a layout5m 1s
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Illustrator graphics in InDesign: Copy/paste, or import?5m
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Importing the Apple HEIC image format into InDesign5m 24s
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How to mix page sizes in the same layout5m 10s
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What's that blue happy face icon (and other mysterious hidden characters)?5m 25s
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Make the Buttons and Forms library more accessible3m 24s
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Search public domain stock sites from within InDesign5m 9s
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Make animated GIFs with Photoshop and InDesign4m 48s
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Hide the blue highlighting in PDF forms you create from InDesign6m 9s
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Automatically break long URLs without adding hyphens4m 24s
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Simplify that long list of forgotten CC Libraries4m 35s
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Two sort of secret tips for sending files to clients via Dropbox6m 47s
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Let InDesign distribute the public link for your Share for Review4m 49s
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Adding new Pantone Color book swatches to InDesign4m 53s
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Use the 70,000-plus free Adobe Stock assets in your layouts5m 38s
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Update the same text across multiple layouts at once5m 57s
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Browsing styles of a particular character4m 48s
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Acrobat and InDesign: Use the Acrobat Share tools to send out PDFs for review6m 16s
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Tips for easy text extraction from old PDFs6m 19s
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Export PDF document versions quickly from a single layout5m 24s
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Extract high-quality images from PDFs to use in your layout6m 54s
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Use the Find Color features to avoid problems on the press6m 24s
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InDesign for beginners: The two tools and three commands you need to know7m 15s
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InDesign for artists: Where are all the art tools?6m 48s
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InDesign for marketers: Finding and using templates6m 44s
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What’s included
- Practice while you learn 3 exercise files
- Test your knowledge 5 quizzes
- Learn on the go Access on tablet and phone
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