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Adobe InDesign: How to disable auto-updates for your CC apps

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor Generally speaking, I recommend that you disable auto-updates for the Creative Cloud applications. You can do this by opening up your Creative Cloud Desktop application, clicking on your avatar on the top right and choosing Preferences. I allow my Creative Cloud Desktop App to keep itself  up-to-date. This control […]

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Adobe InDesign: Nested style, nested line style or GREP style?

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor What is the difference between a nested style, a nested line style and a GREP style? At first glance, they may appear similar. They are all variations on the same theme—each of the three allow you identify a text string in a paragraph and assign a character style to […]

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Adobe InDesign: Use nested styles to format run-in heads

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor A nested style allows you to nest a character style in a paragraph style, so that you can assign both with a single click. A classic use case is a run-in head, where we emphasize the first few words of a paragraph. Run-in head example The image below shows […]

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Adobe InDesign: Multiple nested styles in one paragraph style

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor In Adobe InDesign: Use nested styles to format run-in heads, I covered a very basic nested style example. Now let’s look a more complex situation. Here is a tea catalog with pages and pages (and pages) of teas. The tea names and countries disappear into the descriptions, just like […]

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Adobe InDesign: Repeat nested styles

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor A nested style allows you to nest a character style in a paragraph style, so that you can assign both with a single click. (If you didn’t know that, scroll down to the links at the bottom of this page to learn nested style basics, and then come back […]

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Adobe InDesign: Nested line styles

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor Nested styles have been part of InDesign for a very long time. However, an early complaint was that a user couldn’t assign a nested style to a line of text within a multi-line paragraph. Adobe responded by adding one additional section to the bottom of Drop Caps and Nested […]

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Adobe Photoshop: Aligning layers

by Barb Binder Photoshop doesn’t have an Align panel like InDesign and Illustrator, but with the Move tool active, if you select two or more layers in the Layers panel, the Alignment buttons will appear on the Options bar. Here are a few tips to mastering alignment in Photoshop: When you select multiple layers and […]

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Adobe InDesign: Layer basics

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign If you are an Adobe Photoshop user, you already know that the use of layers is critical to your Photoshop workflow. In InDesign, layers are optional. They are an organizational tool that some users take advantage of, and others choose to ignore. Using layers (for the most […]

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Adobe InDesign: Page number hidden under graphic

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign This seems like such an easy fix—and it is, but it’s not intuitive. New InDesign users quickly figure out that InDesign stacks our design elements in the order in which we add them. And when we need to change the stacking order, we can use Object > […]

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Adobe FrameMaker: Define different colors for table header and footer rows

By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor Sometimes it’s the little things. New in the Fall release of FrameMaker 2022 (v17): the ability to define a different color for the table header row than the table footer row. There is a subtle new difference in Table Designer > Shading. For the first time, we can now […]

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