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

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor Updated Aug 5, 2024 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 […]

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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 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 InDesign: How to Copy your Presets after an Update

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor updated Jul 5, 2023 When you upgrade to a new version of InDesign, it’s usually a good idea to not import your previous settings to the new version. I find InDesign to be more stable over the long run if I turn that feature off and take a few […]

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Adobe InDesign: Paste Live Text from Illustrator

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign and Illustrator New in InDesign CC 2023: we can now copy text from Illustrator and paste it as live text (fully editable, not outlines!) into InDesign. It’s as awesome as it sounds but may want to adjust your preferences in InDesign. Here’s a quick overview of the […]

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