There are so many parts to the answers I show Carly from Minnesota in this Episode. No, it’s not a button to push, but rather a few buttons to push. Once you know the buttons, however…WOW what you can do.

In this episode I cover so many features of InDesign, pulling them together as a team to help you work faster. Please note that I don’t go in depth on any of the individual features here, but rather focus on the tools you need to know to build these photo pages (and more) faster.

So this Episode is like a medley. Yes, we’ll call it a medley of several tools, including:

• Create Guides
• Layers
• Paragraph Styles
• Object Styles
• Text Frame Options
• Auto Size Frames
• Transform Objects
• Gridify
• and more
  

Each of these features gets its own Episode, but here you get to see them play together.

Some of what I’ll show you in this Episode includes:

• How to divide your page to get the correct size photos and text
• Create a basic Paragraph Style (including Next Styles and Based On)
• Create a basic Object Style
• Document-wide editing of objects and text after pages are created
• Resizing frames automatically after pages are built
• Moving and changing all frames in a document quickly
• Replicating photos and texts on pages in seconds with a few button clicks and a mouse drag
• Resizing text frames to fit long text instantly
• Why Layers will save you time
• and other stuff
  

This is a long Episode. Grab some popcorn and a note pad and join me on a really exciting learning journey.