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Using math in InDesign fields - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
Using math in InDesign fields
- [Anne-Marie] Have you ever been working in InDesign and realized you needed to come up with a quick calculation? So you find a local Post-it Note or a pad of paper and you start adding things up and then you copy the number that you came up with into a field. If so you're doing it wrong. I mean, you need to stop and say, "Hey, I'm using a computer that cost thousands of dollars. "I believe it knows how to do calculations." And indeed it usually does. I'm not saying find the calculator app on your computer. Instead, InDesign itself can do the math for you in many cases right inside the fields. Any field that has a number in it can have math applied, addition, subtraction, division, or multiplication. For example, let's say that we're working on this one-page flyer, let me zoom in a bit to this top logo, and our client says, "Can you move that 1/4 of an inch "over to the right?" Well, you look over here at the X field,…
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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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