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Need to recombine pages that have been separated into individual color channels? Photoshop can help with this arcane but helpful trick!

What if you want your pages numbered 4A, 4B, and so on… both on the page and in the Pages panel?

You want objects to extend all the way to the page edge… you need bleed!

Joe needs to convert all his captions in the form LastName_FirstName.jpg into “FirstName LastName.” It’s way easier than you’d think.

Need to draw a vertical bar along the left side of some text? Here are three techniques you should try!

Copy and pasting images might seem like a good idea, but there are other options to explore.

You know you want to add a keyboard shortcut to a feature… but you can’t find the feature in the Edit Keyboard Shortctus dialog box! Here are three solutions.

Need some text to suddenly change color when its over a dark background? This technique should do the trick.

Sometimes InDesign’s alert icons are mysterious to the unintiated. Here’s an explanation of a few of them.

InDesign pauses whenever you make a change to your document? It may not be due to what you think it is.