Text Posts

Create a “Clear All” Find/Change Query

January 4 2012 • 1:24 PM

While you’re waiting for the InDesign team to add a Clear All button to Find/Change, use this tip.

Why Am I Seeing Yellow Highlighting on My Text?

December 26 2011 • 3:48 PM

A (thankfully) easy solution to an often frustrating InDesign problem!

Ruling headers… (or, Placing a Rule Behind a Header)

December 20 2011 • 2:26 AM

Consider this part 2 in the series ‘working with text on a tinted background’!

Center that vertically… (Framed)

December 19 2011 • 1:50 AM

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

How to Make the File Extension Go Away in Captions

November 17 2011 • 5:58 PM

You’ve created file name captions for your pictures, but you don’t want those icky file type extensions? Here’s how to make them disappear!

Create a Keyboard Shortcut for Preview Mode

November 9 2011 • 11:16 AM

It’s not hard to define your own keyboard shortcut that works even when your’e editing text in a frame!

Converting Text to Outlines the Right Way, Updated

November 2 2011 • 2:13 AM

The hack that used to work stopped working, but we found a workaround…

Ghost Frames

October 31 2011 • 11:10 AM

Just in time for Halloween: here’s how to make (or find) a ghost lurking in your InDesign document.

How to Find Overset Text in InDesign Fast

October 28 2011 • 4:29 PM

InDesign tells you that you have some overset text, but sometimes it’s hard to find if you don’t know where to look

Applying Transparency to Text

October 20 2011 • 11:24 AM

When it comes to applying transparency to live text, Quark gives you finer control than InDesign. But there ways of working around this limitation. You just have to think outside the box, er, frame. Whatever. Read the post.