InQuestion: Making Sideheads
Q: I’ve been tasked with laying out a document that uses side heads. I’ve figured out how to anchor them, but positioning and resizing them over and over is a pain. Is there a method that can help me speed this up?
A: Well, there’s no disputing that side heads are a bit of a pain. I can’t eliminate it, but let’s see if I can at least give you a bit of relief.
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If I could just find Tim Cole’s InDesign BackChannel (apparently archived on Adobe blogs but still can’t find it) I could put a link. He wrote this up a decade or so ago and I’ve relied on it ever since for marginal notes. And one can assign one’s own keyboard shortcut so the text frame appears in the right place with the right paragraph style setting. So if anyone can find the archived InDesign BackChannel, it would be well worth it.
Ann, this the one? https://web.archive.org/web/20071114122158/https://blogs.adobe.com:80/indesignchannel/2007/11/anchored_frames_productivity_s.html
If it’s the one, you have a simply AMAZING memory. It “[p]osted by Tim Cole on November 9, 2007”, and thus indeed exactly ‘a decade ago’ :)
It absolutely is but minus the very helpful screen grabs. How amazing I remembered the date quite so precisely! And how wonderful that you could find it. Just love this variety of helpful articles. Been trying to find it on my Mac but only have the printout.
Sucks to be archived without your screen grabs.