In this landmark 300th episode… 

• News
  
  • Anne-Marie and David will be live at Adobe MAX in October
  • CreativePro Week 2023 registration opens October 6, 2022
  • Design & Accessibility Summit (online) Nov. 29–Dec. 2, 2022
• Whoa! 300 episodes!
  • A look back at 17 years of the InDesign Secrets podcast
  • Snippets from the first episode, Nov. 29, 2005
  • Audio snippets from friends and colleagues with limericks, favorite features, memories, and more
• The FIRST Obscure InDesign Feature: Friendly Alien (A young David explains this in the first episode)

In this episode…

• News
  • Last chance to get CreativePro Week 2022 videos and handouts
  • Our online Design and Marketing Summit debuts July 18–19  
  • Illustrator Summit returns Sept 22–23
  • Anne-Marie and David will be live at Adobe MAX in October
  • CreativePro Magazine's July issue is all about Illustrator and InDesign Type: https://creativepro.com/issues/
  • "Smarter Workflows with InDesign and Word," Anne-Marie's newly-published course on LinkedIn Learning
• Editorial Tools and Panels in InDesign
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Select Subject 

Sponsor for this episode:

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Smarter Workflows with InDesign and Word by Anne-Marie!
• InDesign for Editors by Nigel French
• Notes tool and panel
  • https://creativepro.com/find-notes-indesign-files/
  • https://creativepro.com/how-do-you-know-if-there-are-notes-in-an-indesign-document/
  • https://creativepro.com/show-indesign-notes-tool-some-love/
  • https://creativepro.com/use-notes-to-hide-text/
  • Kris Coppieters' free ShowNotes.jsx startup script
• Story Editor:
  • https://creativepro.com/hidden-gems-the-story-editor/
  • https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-to-use-the-story-editor/
• InCopy articles:
  • https://creativepro.com/category/incopy-workflow/
• Track Changes:
  • https://creativepro.com/tip-of-the-week-tracking-changes/
  • https://creativepro.com/use-track-changes-when-accepting-pdf-comments/
• Obscure Feature: Select Subject
  • https://creativepro.com/how-to-use-subject-aware-text-wrap-in-indesign/

In this episode…

• News
  • CreativePro Week 2022 recap
  • Design and Marketing Summit coming up in July!  
  • CreativePro Magazine issues: https://creativepro.com/issues/
• Cool InDesign tips we learned at the conference
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Create Button Trigger 

Sponsor for this episode:

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

• CreativePro Week: on-demand still available https://creativeproweek.com/2022ondemand/
• CreativePro Week 2023 announced: https://creativeproweek.com/savethedate2023/
• Learn to use Canva: https://creativepro.com/getting-started-with-canva/
• CreativePro "3 Minutes Max" videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU-BUwkpVTo&list=PLFof_0NMmT7Uwyy6bc1Uo5OlfBUEtU2Li
• Cool tips and scripts:Keith Gilbert's Isometric/Diametric InDesign script:  https://gilbertconsulting.com/scripts

The settings for a custom stroke that Bart demonstrated, which can be used for a static rule length in Rule Above/Below:

In this episode…

• News
  • Adobe InDesign 17.2.1 update patch released
  • CreativePro Week May 9-13, live in DC and online
  • CreativePro Events: https://creativepro.com/events
  • CreativePro Magazine: https://creativepro.com/issues/
  • CI-HUB Prize Raffle: https://ci-hub.com/creativepro/  
    Deadline is May 2 2022! Details on that page
• Field Guide to Non-Printing Highlights (there are more than you think!)
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Float in Window 

Sponsors for this episode:

>> Microsoft and Adobe! Both of these fine companies are CreativePro partners and will be represented at CreativePro Week 2022. Adobe is flying in a group of Adobe CC engineers from India, and MS Office product manager Stephanie Horn is doing a session on using video in Powerpoint. 

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• You can use CC Libraries in Word and PowerPoint: https://creativepro.com/using-cc-libraries-in-word-and-powerpoint/
• Cool tip: "How to Make an Object Style That Resizes Objects from the Center (or Any Other Reference Point) in InDesign" https://creativepro.com/how-to-make-an-object-style-that-resizes-objects-from-the-center-or-any-other-reference-point-in-indesign/
• What's new in 17.2.1: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html
• Andreas Michalski from CI-HUB, our guest from the last podcast episode
  • Company site https://ci-hub.com
  • Enter their raffle here: https://ci-hub.com/creativepro/) for free tickets to CreativePro Week and free subscriptions to CI-HUB! Deadline for entries is May 2, and they'll contact the winners on May 3, 2022
• Composition Highlights: https://creativepro.com/field-guide-to-composition-highlighting/ https://creativepro.com/why-is-my-indesign-text-highlighted-in-blue/
• What Anne-Marie taught David in this episode (how to quickly jump to the active InDesign document's location on your hard drive):https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-to-video-find-file-size-location/
• 3 Minutes Max tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=580PSVBohDI&list=PLFof_0NMmT7Uwyy6bc1Uo5OlfBUEtU2Li

In this episode…

• News
  • Adobe InDesign 17.2 update patch released
  • CreativePro Week agenda is up! May 9-13, live in DC and online
  • The cover story in the March 2022 issue of CreativePro magazine dives deep into alternatives to Adobe software (including how Affinity Publisher stacks up to InDesign) 
  • And the April issue is all about making data visual; a must-read for anyone who makes charts, graphs, infographics, and so on 
• Interview with Andreas Michalski of CI-HUB
• Control Panel vs. the Properties Panel: Total Smackdown!
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Key Object 

In this episode…

• News
  • Creative Pro Events full 2022 schedule is up!
    • The Design + PowerPoint Summit, March 10-11
    • CreativePro Week, May 9-13 (live in DC and online!)
    • The Design + Marketing Summit, July 18-19
    • The Adobe Illustrator Summit, September 22-23
    • The Design + Accessibility Summit, November 29-December 2
• InDesign's Most Confusing Features
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Others 

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Design + PowerPoint Summit, CreativePro Week, and more! https://creativepro.com/events
• Confusing Features
  • Start document on a left-hand page: https://creativepro.com/starting-a-document-on-a-left-hand-page/
  • Gap Tool: https://creativepro.com/exactly-indesign-tool/
  • Auto-Fit: https://creativepro.com/video-use-auto-fit-on-images/
  • How Gradients Work: https://creativepro.com/adjusting-the-position-of-gradients/
  • Why Radial Gradients are crazy: https://creativepro.com/yes-indesigns-radial-gradients-insane-its-you/
• Place and Link: https://creativepro.com/linking-images-change/(how you get to this episode's Obscure Feature: Others)
• Bart Van de Wiele's course "Advanced InDesign: Productivity Techniques" https://www.linkedin.com/learning/advanced-indesign-productivity-techniques/welcome-to-this-course

In this episode…

• News
  • Creative Pro Events full 2022 schedule is up!
    • The Design + PowerPoint Summit, March 10-11
    • CreativePro Week, May 9-13 (live in DC and online!)
    • The Design + Marketing Summit, July 18-19
    • The Adobe Illustrator Summit, September 22-23
    • The Design + Accessibility Summit, November 29-December 2
  • Pantone® and Adobe brouhaha
• InDesign Collaboration Tips and Solutions
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Accessibility (it appears in an InDesign panel)