1 00:00:06,100 --> 00:00:07,310 Hi there! 2 00:00:07,310 --> 00:00:11,910 In this video we’ll be talking about some workflow speed tips in InDesign, so let’s 3 00:00:11,910 --> 00:00:13,610 get started. 4 00:00:13,610 --> 00:00:17,980 Let me grab the rectangle tool, and make a rectangle. 5 00:00:17,980 --> 00:00:24,000 If you look at the control panel on top, you’ll find that the selected unit is picas, and 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,290 I’m not comfortable with picas, so should I change the units from the settings? 7 00:00:28,290 --> 00:00:29,290 Well! 8 00:00:29,290 --> 00:00:34,090 It’s going to take time, and do I really need to do that? 9 00:00:34,090 --> 00:00:35,250 Actually I don’t. 10 00:00:35,250 --> 00:00:41,899 Let’s just click the width tab, and if you’re comfortable with inches, just type in 6 ‘in’. 11 00:00:41,899 --> 00:00:48,249 ‘In’ for inches, and InDesign will do its internal calculation, and change the width 12 00:00:48,249 --> 00:00:54,460 to 6 inches, and what you see in the control panel is the 6 inches equivalent in picas. 13 00:00:54,460 --> 00:01:00,819 Similarly, I can increase the height to 10 inches, and it shall obey my command. 14 00:01:00,819 --> 00:01:03,339 Let’s drop this rectangle down. 15 00:01:03,339 --> 00:01:10,049 Let’s say I want to reduce the height three times, so all I need to do is click the height 16 00:01:10,049 --> 00:01:18,710 tab once, and add a forward slash, as it is used for division, and enter 3, and hit return, 17 00:01:18,710 --> 00:01:22,750 and you shall find the rectangle resized, as per your settings. 18 00:01:22,750 --> 00:01:28,840 Similarly, now I want the height to be doubled, so I’ll click the height tab once, and for 19 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:34,939 multiplication, add the asterisk sign and the number 2, and hit return, and it shall 20 00:01:34,939 --> 00:01:37,390 do the multiplication for you. 21 00:01:37,390 --> 00:01:42,920 You can even use the close quotation mark for inches, so let’s change the width to 22 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:47,869 7, and then add the close quotation mark, and hit return, and you shall find it recognizing 23 00:01:47,869 --> 00:01:49,450 the quotation for inches. 24 00:01:49,450 --> 00:01:52,210 Let’s delete the rectangle. 25 00:01:52,210 --> 00:01:56,270 The next one is a brilliant one, and is most underused feature of InDesign. 26 00:01:56,270 --> 00:02:01,590 Let’s say I want to go to the bulleted lists option, but I have forgotten where I’ll find it. 27 00:02:02,999 --> 00:02:04,249 Not to worry! 28 00:02:04,249 --> 00:02:09,508 Just go to Help menu, and you’ll find a small search bar to type in, so just type 29 00:02:09,508 --> 00:02:15,220 in ‘bullet’, and as you type in, you’ll find InDesign guiding you with a blue, bold 30 00:02:15,220 --> 00:02:18,780 arrow, where exactly you can find this option. 31 00:02:18,780 --> 00:02:21,120 Let’s try something else. 32 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:25,930 Let’s type in ‘cross’, because I want to find out where the ‘cross-references’ 33 00:02:25,930 --> 00:02:31,300 option is, and just by typing in ‘cross’, it will point out where exactly it is in the 34 00:02:31,300 --> 00:02:33,040 menu options. 35 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:38,440 So do make good use of this option, as not many people know about it, and the ones who 36 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:42,530 do, don’t use it that often, for some unknown reasons. 37 00:02:42,530 --> 00:02:46,220 The next one is very similar to the help feature we just spoke about. 38 00:02:46,220 --> 00:02:52,010 To activate this, you need to press Command and Return on a Mac, or Ctrl and Return on 39 00:02:52,010 --> 00:02:55,160 a PC, and you shall find it populating. 40 00:02:55,160 --> 00:03:00,370 It’s called ‘quick apply’, and if you scroll through, you’ll find a wide variety 41 00:03:00,370 --> 00:03:05,840 of options that can be quickly applied to elements of your choice, so from applying 42 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:11,810 styles to your paragraphs, to saving your file, to activating the rectangle tool, or 43 00:03:11,810 --> 00:03:18,440 the frame tool, you have a plethora of settings that can be activated from here, so do give 44 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:19,540 it a try. 45 00:03:19,540 --> 00:03:25,780 For the next one, let’s grab the type tool, and type in ‘Adobe InDesign.’ 46 00:03:25,780 --> 00:03:30,970 Now suppose I’m composing a document in which I’ll have to type in Adobe InDesign 47 00:03:30,970 --> 00:03:37,471 more than 100 times, so a quicker way of doing this is through the ‘autocorrect’ option 48 00:03:37,471 --> 00:03:39,420 that you learnt in the last lesson. 49 00:03:39,420 --> 00:03:42,480 Let’s go to ‘preferences’, and then ‘autocorrect.’ 50 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:46,860 Now let’s click the ‘add’ button to add a new word. 51 00:03:46,860 --> 00:03:51,270 In the ‘misspelled word’ option, I’m going to type in ‘ain’, which is going 52 00:03:51,270 --> 00:03:57,410 to trigger the correction, and the correction phrase will be ‘Adobe InDesign’, and I’m 53 00:03:57,410 --> 00:04:03,380 going to type it, in the way I want it corrected, and then hit okay, and come out of the preferences panel. 54 00:04:04,380 --> 00:04:09,780 Now let’s type in ‘ain’, and the moment you add a space, you’ll find the word getting 55 00:04:09,780 --> 00:04:11,900 corrected, as per our settings. 56 00:04:11,900 --> 00:04:17,509 I think this feature can be a life-saver, particularly when you’re composing a book. 57 00:04:17,509 --> 00:04:19,509 The next one is to zoom-in and out. 58 00:04:19,509 --> 00:04:25,380 The best way to do it is holding Option on a Mac, or Alt on a PC, and using the mouse 59 00:04:25,380 --> 00:04:26,410 scroll key. 60 00:04:26,410 --> 00:04:32,480 It’s the fastest way you can jump to another page as well, so do make good use of it. 61 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:37,170 The next one is to increase, or decrease the font size in larger increments. 62 00:04:37,170 --> 00:04:41,400 So let me select my text here, and you can see that the font size is set to 10 points 63 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:47,560 at the moment, so using the selection tool, if I hit Shift Command and > sign on a Mac, 64 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:53,980 or Shift Ctrl and > sign on a PC, it will increment the font size by 2 points with every click. 65 00:04:54,980 --> 00:04:59,150 Let’s do it twice, and check the font size. 66 00:04:59,150 --> 00:05:03,480 You can see from 10 points, now the font size has move to 14 points. 67 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:09,520 Let’s undo the last two actions using Command Z on a Mac, or Ctrl Z on a PC. 68 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:12,980 So the font size has come back down to 10 points. 69 00:05:12,980 --> 00:05:19,190 This time click, and hold Shift Option Command, and then hit the > sign on a Mac, and on a 70 00:05:19,190 --> 00:05:24,390 PC, hold Shift Alt Ctrl, and then hit the > sign. 71 00:05:24,390 --> 00:05:29,370 With every click of > sign, it will increment by 10 points. 72 00:05:29,370 --> 00:05:36,020 You can see we hit the > sign twice, and the size has jumped from 10 points to 30 points. 73 00:05:36,020 --> 00:05:40,380 Similarly to reduce the font size you use the same set of keys, only this time use 74 00:05:40,380 --> 00:05:42,870 the < sign instead. 75 00:05:42,870 --> 00:05:47,160 Moving on, let’s talk about another tool that has been underused by most, for some 76 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:48,860 unknown reasons. 77 00:05:48,860 --> 00:05:52,639 Let me fist make a rectangle using the rectangle tool. 78 00:05:52,639 --> 00:05:57,030 This tool is called the ‘measure tool’, and you will find it hiding under the ‘color 79 00:05:57,030 --> 00:06:00,090 theme tool’, so click to activate it. 80 00:06:00,090 --> 00:06:05,010 You see I just made this rectangle, but I don’t know the dimensions of it yet, so 81 00:06:05,010 --> 00:06:09,770 with the measure tool, I’m going to click the edge of the rectangle, hold Shift, and 82 00:06:09,770 --> 00:06:14,990 then drag to the opposite edge, and it shall give me the exact height of the rectangle 83 00:06:14,990 --> 00:06:16,580 in the info panel. 84 00:06:16,580 --> 00:06:21,370 Similarly, you can find out the width of the rectangle as well, holding Shift. 85 00:06:21,370 --> 00:06:24,800 We hold Shift so as to have a straight line. 86 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:29,770 You can even measure the diagonal of the rectangle, and it will also give you the angle of the 87 00:06:29,770 --> 00:06:32,280 diagonal in the info panel. 88 00:06:32,280 --> 00:06:36,360 This is something you can use, not just with shapes, but texts, or any other elements on 89 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:42,760 the screen, so if we try to find out the width of our text here, all we need to do is click, 90 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:47,490 hold and drag to the other side of the text, and the width shall be revealed in the info panel. 91 00:06:48,780 --> 00:06:53,440 Like I said, a powerful, but underused tool of InDesign. 92 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:55,770 That brings us to the last one for this tutorial. 93 00:06:55,770 --> 00:07:00,919 Let’s go to the pages panel, and let’s say I want some of my pages to be on a different 94 00:07:00,919 --> 00:07:06,540 size, so what I need to do is, click the page tool from the toolbar on the left, or you 95 00:07:06,540 --> 00:07:12,139 can even use the shortcut Shift P, and then click the first page you want on a different 96 00:07:12,139 --> 00:07:17,760 size, and then hold Shift, and then click the last page you want on a different size. 97 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:21,889 You’ll find all the pages in between getting selected. 98 00:07:21,889 --> 00:07:26,300 Now since we’ve already activated the pages tool, you’ll find the dimensions on the 99 00:07:26,300 --> 00:07:27,430 top toolbar. 100 00:07:27,430 --> 00:07:33,620 Let’s say I want to change the selected pages to 6 inches, by 8 inches, and then hit 101 00:07:33,620 --> 00:07:38,550 return, and all four pages will have the new size now. 102 00:07:38,550 --> 00:07:42,830 To verify it, click one of the pages, and you can find pages of both the dimensions 103 00:07:42,830 --> 00:07:49,520 sitting side by side, so that’s the easiest way to resize pages using the page tool. 104 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:50,520 Alright guys! 105 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:53,150 That brings us to the close of this session. 106 00:07:53,150 --> 00:07:56,630 Time to take a break, and I shall see you in the next one in just a bit. 107 00:07:56,630 --> 00:07:57,130 Good bye!