InDesign Secrets
Adobe InDesign tips, techniques and insider info from Anne-Marie Concepcion and David Blatner.

In this episode:

  • Top Posts of 2014: A look back
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Report Abuse
  • Quizzler answer, and the winner!

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QUIZZLER answer and winner!
There are 32 (yes that many) trash can/dust bin icons "littered" (sorry) throughout the InDesign interface. Intrepid listener Jim Leonardson of Chicago, Illinois came up with the top answer, which you'll find below the show links.  Honorable mention to blog contributor/InDesign author Sandee Cohen, who sent us a PDF containing screen shots of the 27 that she found.  Jim won two of our eb0oks, our Top Forty InDesign Tips and the Guide to Graphic Effects bundle by Mike Rankin.
 

Links mentioned in this podcast:
 

It's all about the Trash:
  • In Panels: Animation Articles Assignments Bookmarks Button and Forms Cell Styles Character Styles Conditional Text Cross-References Effects Folio Builder Folio Overlay* Hyperlinks Index Layers Notes Object States Object Styles Pages Paragraph Styles Table Styles Tags Trap Presets Swatches
  • In the Structure Pane at the top
  • To the right of the Find/Change Query pull-down menu
  • Next to the Find Format frame (Text, GREP, and Object tabs) counts as 3
  • Next to the Change Format frame (again Text, GREP, and Object tabs) counts as 3
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