Using a combination of keyboard shortcuts, Jeff Witchel shows how to quickly access options for some of InDesign’s more popular tools.
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Jeff Witchel graduated from Pratt Institute in 1973 with a B.F.A. (Cum Laude) in Advertising Design and Visual Communications. He has been an award-winning advertising art director, writer, designer, illustrator, and TV producer ever since. Before starting his own advertising agency in New Jersey, Jeff built his career at top New York ad agencies such as Young & Rubicam, Grey Advertising, and Wells, Rich, Greene. Over the years, he has created award-winning work for many clients including AT&T, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Jell-O Pudding, The Plaza Hotel, and Pfizer. His many prestigious awards include N.Y. Art Directors Club Gold Award, One Show Gold Award, N.J. Art Directors Club Award, multiple Andy Awards, Graphis Annual, numerous readership awards, plus an Emmy Award nomination. Jeff is a self-taught computer artist with over 19 years of experience. His initial introduction to the computer was with PageMaker, but he switched to Quark 1.0 when it was first introduced in 1987. Having arrived on the desktop publishing scene so early, Jeff became the "go to" guy for answers when others started getting into computer graphics. As an Adobe Certified Expert, he's provided online support for Adobe and is now an Adobe Certified Training Provider for both Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Adobe InDesign CS2. Jeff is one of just a handful of Adobe Certified Instructors in the New York metropolitan area. He also is a Quark Certified Expert in QuarkXPress 6 as well as a master of Adobe Photoshop and related applications. He counts among his training clients ad agencies, design studios, magazines, illustrators, and photographers in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
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Thanks Jeff.
Very handy tip, especially with the bullets.
Thanks Kisan!
Great information! Can’t believe I’ve been working with InDesign for many years, and never took the time to explore these shortcuts.
Thank you, Jeff, for suddenly making my life easier!
Thanks Kisan. Glad you liked it.
Best,
Jeff
Hi Jeff,
I ‘m a starter. Need help to begin with designing!
Thanks,
Cyma
Some of these tips are superb! Now here’s a question. I discovered a great tip whereby if I drag a graphic frame and press the up arrow it divides the frame into columns and the left arrow will divide into rows. Problem = If I have created a 2 page spread and set a page gutter value of for example of 20mm and I use this method InDesign assumes that I want the same gutter value between the rows and columns. How can I adjust this so that I can have a set gutter value dividing the page and a different gutter value dividing rows and columns?
Alan