InDesignSecrets Podcast 156

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

• News and Announcements
  • James Fritz's InDesignSecrets Live seminar in Milwaukee, Sept 27
  • Anne-Marie's InDesignSecrets Live seminar in Las Vegas, Nov 2
  • David & Fritz are presenting with Russell Brown at Adobe MAX, Oct 1–5
  • Mike Rankin's 3-city InDesignFX tour of midwest IDUGs, Sept 13–15
• All about Change Case; tips and secrets and scripts and plug-ins and GREP, oh my
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Contextual Alternates
• Quizzler! All you need is a web connection to figure it out

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

> InDesignSecrets Live! with James Fritz in Milwaukee, WI, September 27

> InDesignSecrets Live! With Anne-Marie Concepcion in Las Vegas, November 2

> David & Fritz at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, Oct 1–5

> Mike Rankin's InDesignFX tour of the InDesign User Groups, Sept 13–15

> Formatting Tools plug-in from InTools (does Change Case magic)

> Change Case with GREP, InDesignSecrets post here and forum thread here

> Using Configurator in InDesign to change case

> Is it Upper Case or is it All Caps? Big difference!

> Free script for Smart Title Case

> "Engaging Contextuality," great post about fonts with Contextual Alternates