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Unthreaded text frames, filled with a colour and a single line of capitalized text that is both horizontally and vertically centered.

Water, water everywhere. Three-quarters of the planet is covered with it. Sixty percent of you is water. And with the help of a blending mode, you can add a drop or two of H2O to your designs.

Did you ever try option-dragging an object to make a copy of it using the Direct Selection tool? If so, you may have witnessed this weird phenomenon.

Although most of us today will use InDesign’s table and table styles features to distribute ‘tabular’ data across the width of the page – instead of painstakingly trying to align and set tabs – I am for some reason compelled to write about tabs today I hope it makes them feel part of InDesign again after I’ve been deserting them for a bit

If you’ve ever been confused or frustrated with the results of pasting a graphic from one frame to another, this one’s for you.

A quick tip on how to make any object the “key object” when aligning.

The ability to use GREP in a Find/Change is pretty sweet, but there’s at least one limitation that could leave a bad taste in your mouth.

Get way more “Awesome” out of InDesign’s Bevel effect with these tips and tricks.

You don’t need a mouse to navigate through many of your InDesign panels. You just have to know when they’re “listening” to your keyboard.

An answer to the question: How do I create dots for all the minutes on a clock face…