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Adobe InDesign: Numbering Chapters, Subheads, Tables & Figures

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Adobe InDesign Updated Jan 29. 2024 InDesign has a robust set of numbering tools, but most users don’t do much more than set up basic numbered lists. Yesterday, in my Advanced Adobe InDesign class, a student asked how to number her chapters, subheads, tables and figures. It can be […]

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Adobe InDesign: Signaling the End of an Article

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Adobe InDesign CS6 Multi-story publications like newsletters and magazines often have stories that jump across pages. In a multi-story publication with jumps, it is helpful to add an end sign to signal the end of the story to the reader. It’s a two-step process: first, select the appropriate symbol, […]

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Adobe InDesign: Need Fractions?

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Adobe InDesign Updated: Aug 06, 2023. Works on InDesign CS4 and all later versions Typesetting fractions is no fun, or at least it didn’t used to be. The introduction of OpenType fonts and the Glyphs panel were a great help, allowing point and click access to additional commonly […]

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Adobe Photoshop: Image Appearing as a “Thumbnail” in InDesign

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Adobe Photoshop CS6 This question was posed to me recently by one of our IDUG Denver user group members: I’m using ID-CS5 (Mac), working on a book about presidents and it includes a photo section. One of the photos opens in Photoshop CS3 and appears to be OK but […]

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Adobe InDesign: Why Can’t I Select Anything?

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign From a recent Rocky Mountain Training Introduction to Adobe InDesign CS6 student: I am experiencing issues with the Selection tool. The tool is not selecting any text or graphic box. Is there a setting that I might have changed? Any advice would be great! Looking at your file, […]

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Adobe InDesign: Opening a Document in an Older Version of InDesign

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign From a recent Rocky Mountain Training student: I am not able to open a document that I created in InDesign yesterday. When I took your [Introduction to Adobe InDesign CS6] class, I was using a free trial of the CS6, then after your class my company decided to […]

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Adobe InDesign: Left-Aligned Currency Symbols with Right-Aligned Numbers

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign From a recent Rocky Mountain Training InDesign student: Are you familiar with formatting columns of numbers in Excel?  You can line up currency numbers in a format called “accounting” that lines them up by decimal AND ALSO left aligns all of the dollar signs.   In InDesign tables, […]

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Adobe InDesign CS6: Moving CS5 Presets to CS6

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign I’m a big fan of InDesign presets, and use them quite a bit. Despite the fact that I’ve used every single of version of InDesign, I’m inevitably surprised when I start laying out a document in a new version and realize my favorite custom presets aren’t available. Here’s […]

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Adobe InDesign CS6: What’s New?

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign Updated May 17, 2018 InDesign CS6 new Adaptive Design Tools—Liquid Layout, Alternate Layouts, Linked Content and the Content Collector tools—all geared towards allowing you to easily adapt page layouts for print, tablets and screens. Another really powerful new feature is the ability to set up forms fields in […]

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Adobe FrameMaker 11: My Wish List

by Barb Binder Updated: Nov 12, 2022 NOTE: I just ran across this post from 10 years ago and I’m really happy to report that a number of these wishes have been incorporated in the current versions of Adobe FrameMaker. I’m adding checkmarks ✅ in front of the features that have been added or changed since I […]

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