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A friendly Q & A with a variety of commonly asked InDesign questions.

Help David uncover the mystery of “the best” desktop typesetting program from the early 90s.

Importing MS Word documents can cause pesky problems. You can avoid some problems by ensuring your MS Word paragraph and character styles aren’t based on the wrong thing.

Placing an inline graphic has some subtle and profound consequences for your paragraph’s composition, and the Universe.

I’ve been waiting for this script for years! A simple way to merge a bunch of text frames into one!

Adobe’s new Text Layout Framework for Flash 10 and AIR could mean big changes in future workflows.

Sometimes it’s hard to understand what you’re looking at in InDesign. Here are a few oddities we’ve seen recently, along with clues to what went “wrong.”

The Gravity feature fundamentally broke in CS3. Fortunately, it’s finally fixed again. But what on earth is it and how do you use it?

Conditional text is one of the coolest new features of CS4. You can even apply conditions with Find/Change. But there are a couple of quirks to be aware of.

Often it’s the little things you love the most, and InDesign CS4’s new method of creating styles is my favorite small new feature.