Rock InDesign like a boss:

• Locate and tweak essential settings hidden in the Preferences

• Customise the appearance and content of menus

• Change InDesign's keyboard shortcuts and add new ones

• Take charge of all those panels with workspace power tips

• Use built-in automation scripts and add new ones (for free)

Finesse your text content:

• Restyle specific words and phrases across hundreds of pages in a second

• Access the full hidden character set of every font including accents, symbols and icons

• Work with typographical glyphs, dashes and white spaces

• Set up complex multi-style text formatting that works automatically

• Master advanced formatting features such as paragraph shading, baseline alignment and column spanning

• Simplify, customise and automate bulleted and numbered lists

Design with tables:

• Insert tabular layouts with resizable rows and columns into any document and edit their content

• Import spreadsheets from Microsoft Excel and continue working with them in InDesign

• Restyle tables with fonts, colours and patterns, and even add graphics

• Add, remove and re-arrange rows and columns at will

• Flow tables across multiple pages with repeating headers and footers

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Manage your design assets:

• Use design industry colour references such as Pantone

• Work with RGB, LAB and CMYK colours, including spot inks

• Build re-usable and sharable libraries containing branded colours, type styles, graphics and layouts

• Capture the visual style of anything in a layout and re-apply it anywhere with one click

Take full control of pages:

• Automate complex documents with multiple master pages

• Use different page sizes in the same document

• Change page numbering and spread pagination anywhere in a document

• Manage layout grids that automatically align text baselines

Go further with graphics:

• Enable 'clipping path' cut-out graphics or create your own

• Place multi-layered images or graphics and choose which layers to show

• Create original graphics with shape and drawing tools

• Apply advanced transparency effects and blending modes

• Reposition graphics automatically when your text reflows

• Make text roll along curves, turn corners and swerve into custom shapes

Produce better PDFs:

• Ensure colour consistency between on-screen and print

• Create custom 'preflight' checks to ensure clean and reliable output

• Configure your own custom PDF presets for faster export

• Make PDFs that your printing press people will love

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