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To hear the audio episode from which this transcript was made, or to comment on this episode, go to the InDesignSecrets Podcast 153 page.
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David Blatner: Welcome to InDesign Secrets Episode 153. I am [...]

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• Tables Tables Tables! Answers to:
  • Table styles with column widths?
  • Find (and change) tables with Find/Change?
  • Merge two tables into one, easily?
  • Fill table cells with placeholder text?
  • Insert consecutive numbers in a column?
  • Make a cell show the sum of its column or row (or other math)?
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Automatic Document Conversion
• Quizzler Answers!!!! (“How many ways can you tell the current page number?”)

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• Keyboard shortcut “of the week”
• Interview with Ron Bilodeau, InDesign Master at O’Reilly Media
• Incredibly geeky blog posts you should check out
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Remember Font with Bullet
• Quizzler!

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• PePCon 2011 recap: It was great! Let’s do it again! ;-D
• Marijan’s new Acrobat script (lets you create form fields in InDesign)
• Our Uservoice web site for InDesign feature requests
• Interview with Douglas Waterfall, InDesign senior software engineer
• Quizzler winner! (and answer)
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Load Selected Glyph

To hear the audio episode from which this transcript was made, or to comment on this episode, go to the InDesignSecrets Podcast 150 page.
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Anne-Marie Concepcion: Welcome to InDesignSecrets, episode 150.
David Blatner: [...]

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-150.mp3 (15.2 MB, 27:18 minutes)

• Our sesquicentennial episode!
  • We talk about 15 of our list of 150 Awesome Links and Resources, including:
    Bob Bringhurst’s InDesign Docs blog, Adobe Master List of Adobe Blogs, InDesign Magazine Tip of the Week archives, Mordy’s Fridays with Mordy webinar archive, Pattern Maker plug-in free version, DesignGeek.com, Quark to InDesign conversion guide (PDF), Adobe TV InDesign channel, InDesign Beyond the Basics, Real World InDesign, InDesignUserGroup Twitter list, InDesignSecrets Guide to Special Characters, 10 Tips for Troubleshooting InDesign Files, Dave Dickson’s Digital Publishing blog
• A new Quizzler! Listen up, magicians: you need to make something disappear.
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Background Tasks

To hear the audio episode from which this transcript was made, or to comment on this episode, go to the InDesignSecrets Podcast 149 page.
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David Blatner: Welcome to InDesignSecrets Episode 149. I’m David [...]

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-149.mp3 (21.2 MB, 37:06 minutes)

• InDesignSecrets News
  • Print & ePublishing Conference update
  • Google in, Bing out, for our blog’s search engine
• Laying out book covers (spine, covers, flaps): tips and scripts
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Change Bars
• Quizzler winner and answer!

To hear the audio episode from which this transcript was made, or to comment on this episode, go to the InDesignSecrets Podcast 148 page.
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Anne-Marie Concepcion: Welcome to InDesign Secrets, episode [...]

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-148.mp3 (21.2 MB, 37:06 minutes)

• Interview with Russell Viers
  • On teaching InDesign, the suite, and his favorite tips
  • The struggles of regional newspaper publishers (his specialty)
• Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Command-Option-7/Control-Alt-7
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Select First Range of Same-Size Pages
• Quizzler! With a prize worth hundreds of dollars … listen for details