Give Me Some Space
Hidden under the Type menu, inside the Insert White Space submenu, you’ll find all the space you could ever want. I will be covering lots ...
Easy Bullet Styles That Will Blow You Away
You could format bullet copy the traditional way by using a Left Indent and a negative First Line Indent in the Paragraph palette. But there ...
Making the Bounding Box Disappear Just for a Second
Lots of my students complain about the Bounding Box getting in their way as they work with the Selection tool. I tell them to just ...
Editing Anchor Points As You Draw a Path
The Convert Anchor Point is a path-editing tool that’s hidden under all the Pen tools in the Tool palette. It’s used to convert a Curved ...
Command Your Way Back to Your Last Selection Tool
No matter which Selection tool was last used, if you press your Command key (Control on PC), you can temporarily access that tool. So if ...
Live Type with Multiple Strokes? Sure, Why not?
A while back, I wrote a tip about applying multiple Strokes to an object. As a reminder, here it is. Select an object and open ...
Apply a Paragraph Style to All Text In a Frame
You’re working on the back cover of a brochure, setting up the legal copy at the bottom of the page. The client wants the legal ...
Revisiting "Stroked Type that Won't Give Typographers a Stroke."
Many of my students insist that it’s not possible to create a rectangle with two square corners and two rounded corners in InDesign. But it ...