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Is there a way to combine the attributes of multiple cell styles in a table? And what does it really mean when a cell style ignores formatting?

Just in time for Halloween: here’s how to make (or find) a ghost lurking in your InDesign document.

Here’s a little guide showing which InDesign preferences are document-specific and which ones are application-wide.

It happened. InDesign crashed. One moment I was working happily, and the next InDesign was gone with a message about quitting unexpectedly. (On Windows this would have been that InDesign had stopped working.)
I restarted the program. As expected, InDesign restored the document I had been working on. But there were a few surprises.
First, not only [...]

Why copy-and-paste sometimes stops working

The Control panel is teeming with hidden shortcuts to other panels, preferences, and dialog boxes. Here’s not one, but seven maps, to reveal them all.

When you’re creating interactive PDF files, hiding your sound files is surprisingly tricky. Here are a couple of tricks to help.

How to type feet and inch marks and then use GREP styles to automatically format them as prime and double prime characters.

Turns out those fields for adjusting text’s Horizontal and Vertical Scale can actually come in quite handy!