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How to find special little-used characters when working in InDesign

What happens when you can’t seem to find the welcome screen?

Trying to get text to wrap around a graphic inside a table can be quite annoying, unless you know this simple workaround.

Black doesn’t always look black! Here’s how to make sure your blacks really black out what’s behind them.

It really can be annoying when the type tool converts your empty frames into text frames. Learn how to stop the madness!

InDesign offers very fine grained control over find/change, including which sorts of characters you want it to find.

When you need to make more than one index in a single document, you need to resort to workarounds.

Importing Microsoft Word and Excel documents is pretty easy, how about PowerPoint?

A simple introduction to grouping GREP expressions shows how easy it is to manipulate found text in all sorts of time-saving ways.

Need to cut a hole in (or apply a spot varnish to or emboss) your InDesign document? It’s not that hard, with the help of a spot color.