Posts Tagged with ‘Special characters’

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

Deleted one of your footnote numbers? Don’t panic! Here’s a (very obscure) way to get it back.

Making a vertical line in a table without using tables requires some tricky text maneuvering

Special characters are a pain to type or find in the Glyphs panel; here’s how you can make a shortcut for any character!

For those of you using the Mac OS, take a quick peek at Apple’s new-ish Pro Techniques page at www.apple.com/pro, which focuses on tutorials and tip for the creative professional. Although many of the tips there are for video and audio, they’ve begun to add some DTP tricks, too, such as this one about the Mac OS X Character Palette (sort of a “hidden” glyphs palette with some cool options that InDesign’s Glyphs palette doesn’t have), written by… um… well, me.