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Hi there!

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In this video we’ll be talking about optimizing
our preferences, for a better workflow in

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InDesign, so let’s get started.

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You’ll find the ‘preferences’ option
on a PC under ‘Edit’ menu, somewhere towards

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the end, and on a Mac, it sits under ‘InDesign’,
so let’s click ‘General.’

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The first one is this option that says ‘show
Home Screen when no documents are open.’

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If you find the welcome screen confusing,
and want to straight away land to the screen

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from where you can select the new document,
you can uncheck this box, so next time you

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double-click the InDesign icon, you’ll land
here, and from here you can then go to file,

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and then new, and click document, to create
a new document, and then hit create.

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Since I love my welcome screen, I’d check
the box.

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The next one is this ‘content-aware fit’
option.

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By default it is unchecked, and let me show
you what it does.

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Let’s grab a rectangle frame tool, and make
a rectangular frame here.

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Now let’s go to file, and then place, and locate 
an image on the computer, and then hit open.

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Once your image is placed into the frame,
you’ll find that it’s not the complete

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image, so particularly when I’m working
on a document where I have to place lots of

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images, it’s better to have the content-aware
fit option checked.

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So, let’s undo the last action, and go to
preferences, and then general, and check the

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content-aware fit option, and hit okay.

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Now let’s go to file, and then place, and
locate the same image on the computer, and

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hit open, and you shall find that this time the 
image has been placed perfectly into the frame.

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Please be aware that this is still not the
entire image.

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Let’s right-click, and go to fitting, and
select ‘fit content to frame’ option,

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and you shall find the image resizing itself
slightly.

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So what content-aware fit does is, it automatically
scales, and repositions the image into the

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frame, based on the context and focal point
of the image, which is why the subject is

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enhanced, and the unnecessary corners are
shed, using content-aware fit.

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Let’s move on to the next one.

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Let’s go to the Interface tab, under preferences.

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From here you can change the color theme of
InDesign.

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If you prefer a darker theme, select the one
on the left.

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If you prefer a lighter theme, you have two
nice options to chose from, so it’s entirely

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up to your choice here.

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I’m going to stick to the default option.

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The next one is units and increments, so let’s
move to that tab, and in here the ruler units

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are set to picas, so let’s change it to
millimeters, and hit okay, and the rulers

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will be set to a more familiar unit.

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You can chose millimeters, or inches, or centimeters,
depending upon your comfort zone with them.

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For the next one, let’s make a rectangle,
using the rectangle tool.

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Now when you click, and move it, it moves
in certain preset increments.

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If you want to reduce or increase the size
of the increments, go to preferences, and

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then units and increments, and you see at
this point it is set to .353 millimeter, which

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means with every click it moves .353 millimeter,
so let’s change it to .1 millimeter, and

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hit okay, and now when you move it, using the 
arrow keys, it will move as per .1 millimeter increments.

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It’s an option used more when precision
is required, in terms of alignment.

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Let’s move on to the next one, and it’s
spelling.

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Here you can check ‘enable dynamic spelling’
option, and it shall work much like the ‘spell

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checker’ of MS Word.

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Now if you move on to ‘autocorrect’, you’ll
find quite a few misspelled word list on the

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left, and their correction on the right.

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So basically this is for people that have
a trend in misspelling words, so instead of

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typing in ‘about’, they tend to type in
‘abbout’, so InDesign corrects it, when

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it comes across a word like this, but you’ll
have to add such words to the list, for it

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to trigger a correction, so let’s hit okay,
and see how it works.

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Let’s select the type tool, and make a text
box.

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Let’s type in ‘abbout’, and the moment you
 enter another space, InDesign will trigger correction.

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You may also have noticed the green underline,
and that’s because we have activated dynamic

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spelling, so InDesign will give you red lines
under incorrect spellings, and green lines

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if the sentence is incomplete.

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Now you see if I type in ‘aboout’, it’s
an incorrect spelling of the word ‘about’,

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so InDesign has alerted us with the red underline,
but it hasn’t autocorrected the word, because

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we never added this word to be autocorrected.

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So let’s add it now.

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Let’s go to the autocorrect option, and
click the ‘add’ button.

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In the ‘misspelled word’ bar, type in
‘aboout’, and in the ‘correction’

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bar, add the right spelling of the word, and
hit okay, and come out of the preferences panel.

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Now if you misspell the word ‘about’,
adding two ‘o’s, InDesign will auto correct it.

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Let’s misspell the word ‘favorite’,
and you shall find the red underline.

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Correct it, and the underline will be replaced
with green.

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It’s because it’s a stand alone word.

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It will not happen, if you type in a complete
sentence.

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Let’s type in ‘I love Adobe’, and you
shall find no green underline.

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Let’s delete the text, and get back to preferences.

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Let’s move to ‘clipboard handling’,
and we have already covered this option earlier

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during one of the tutorial sessions, but let’s
discuss it once more.

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So this one is particularly useful when you’re
pasting text or tables from other applications,

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so if you want them to come to InDesign along
with the styles, and swatches etc., you should

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chose the ‘all information’, option from
here, else, you can select the ‘text only’ option.

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In which case you’ll have to style everything
on InDesign, as per your choice.

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Do go through other options in preferences,
and see what you can further customize according

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to your working style, and something you feel
can add on to your workflow efficiency, and

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I’m sure it will speed up your work, and
make life simple for you.

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Alright guys!

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That concludes our session, and I’m going
to see you in the next one momentarily.

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Good bye!