For example, in one project, I repeatedly had to use the tedious phrase “financial capabilities program.” To speed up the typing, I added a new Autocorrect entry that automatically changed “fcp” to expand the text. Tip: You can use Autocorrect as a poor person’s keyboard macro as well. Check Enable Autocorrect in the Autocorrect panel of the Preferences dialog box. If you type in InDesign a lot, turning it on is worth a try. (You can quickly toggle this preference from the Edit > Spelling menu as well.)Īnother preference that mimics Microsoft Word is Autocorrect. You can adjust this setting to make it work for you.ĭo you like how Microsoft Word underlines potentially misspelled words, repeated words? You can enable similar behavior in InDesign with by selecting Enable Dynamic Spelling in the Spelling panel of the Preferences dialog. I knocked it down to 5 in the Kerning/Tracking field (Preferences > Units & Increments > Keyboard Increments). But I find InDesign’s default increment of 20/1000ths of an em to be huge.
Keyboard shortcuts for kerning and tracking are awesome for quickly experimenting with type and for copyfitting. To change your units of measurement for your rulers, choose from different options from the Horizontal and Vertical menus in the Units & Increments panel of the Preferences dialog.Īnd if you are curious about those other units of measurement, check out “ The Measure of Type.” (No pressure-now you know that nobody will make you use ciceros if you don’t want to.) Let go of your guilt-work in the measurement system you prefer. Whether this is true or not, that observation freed me up to work in inches. I never changed the default rulers because I thought that’s what the pros use.Īt one point, though, a brilliant production artist mentioned to me that nobody really knows picas except for people with newspaper training. As a writer and page layout person with no design training, I never learned picas.
Rulers that rockĪpparently, Adobe thinks all designers not only understand picas but are most comfortable using them. (If you need more details on this topic, read Rein in Rogue Leading.) 4. Check Apply Leading to Entire Paragraphs in the Type panel. When do you not want the leading to be the same within a paragraph? There might be a case here and there, but chances are, you want the same spacing between lines no matter the text sizes. (If you’re using the Keyboard Shortcuts set, InDesign will prompt you to create a custom set.) You can select a more obscure keyboard shortcut or eliminate the shortcut altogether. Click on the current shortcut and click Remove. Choose Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts, then select Text and Tables from the Product Area menu and scroll to Toggle Typographer’s Quotes Preference. And if it keeps happening, consider changing that keyboard shortcut. If Use Typographer’s Quotes in the Type area of the Preferences dialog box is mysteriously unchecked, you almost certainly added Option (Mac) or Alt (Windows) to those commands and accidentally changed the way InDesign works for you. Chances are you went to use straight single or double quotes-as you would for indicating feet or inches-with the usual respective keyboard shortcuts: Command+’/Command+Shift+” (Mac) or Ctrl+’/Ctrl+Shift+” (Windows).
InDesign offers a default keyboard shortcut that will change this single setting. But you might suddenly find that your quotes are no longer converting to curly. Now, this one is a little tricky because Use Typographer’s Quotes (Preferences > Type … ) is actually checked by default ( and for good reason). As for me, I like the retro soft gray, so I go with the lightest swatch. You can choose from a range of four gray swatches in the Appearance area-and, yes, you can make the default interface even darker if you really like that. Lighten upĭo you really like that Dark interface? You have a choice! Select Interface > Color Theme in the Preferences dialog box. So if you’ve never thought to change your preferences, press Command+K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Windows) to open the dialog box and follow along. If you find any of these quirks annoying or distracting, InDesign also lets you customize your work environment. And in recent years, it wants to act like it’s your best friend with chummy greetings when you fire it up to get some work done. If you’re using older versions, it’s pretty sure that you don’t want to take advantage of that gorgeous monitor you’re using.
It thinks you measure things in picas and points. It’s pretty sure that your worldview is pretty Dark. InDesign makes some assumptions about you.
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