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ContentsToggle the Find/Change Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Link to a Page in Another InDesign File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Use the Color Theme Tool to Sample Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Resize Tables Quickly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Turn Off Multiple Layers Simultaneously . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Convert InDesign Notes to PDF Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Fast Ways to Add a Bunch of Files to a Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Jump Between Masters from the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

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Super Fast Style Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Secret Way to Create New Color Swatches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Delete Unwanted Text with Find/Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Save and Close All Open Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Use a Duplicate Story Editor Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Add Image Captions Fast with the Links Panel. . . . . . . . . . . 17

Change the Presentation Mode Background Color . . . . . . 18

Duplicating Styles Instead of Basing On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Find Menu Items Quickly by Alphabetizing Them . . . . . . 20

Bypass the Swatches Panel: Color Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Change Values in Panels with the Arrow Keys . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Create Your Own Custom Glyph Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

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Spellcheck Capitalization in Your Added Words . . . . . . . . . 24

Make Better-Looking Drop Shadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Lock Objects to Protect Them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Revealing Hidden Objects with Preflight Profiles . . . . . . . . 27

Learn Useful Info with Print Dialog Box Previews . . . . . . . 29

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W hen InDesign CC 2014 was released in June 2014, one of the cool new features was the ability to reverse the direction of a Find/

Change search. All you had to do was select Direction > Backward in the Find/Change dialog box.

But if you’re someone who likes to keep your hands on the keyboard at all times for maximum ef-ficiency, you might want to use a keyboard shortcut to toggle the direction of a search. And sure enough there is one: press Command+Option+Return (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+Enter (Windows) to switch between Forward (Find Next) and Backward (Find Previous) searches.

By Mike Rankin

Toggle the Find/Change Direction

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D id you know that you can make a hyperlink to a page in another InDesign document? This can be handy in several scenarios, but

the one I use most is to create links between docu-ments in an InDesign book that I output to interac-tive PDF. And unlike cross-references, this kind of link doesn’t have to depend on text anchors or paragraph formatting.

Start by selecting the text or page item you want as the source of the hyperlink.

Click on the New Hyperlink button in the Hyper-links panel.

In the New Hyperlink dialog box, choose Link To: Page, and then choose the document and page number you want as the destination of the hyperlink. The Document pop-up menu will list all your cur-rently open InDesign documents. You can also use the Browse command to locate and open another document.

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The Page option will default to whatever page is cur-rently displayed in the destination document, but you can select any page from the menu.

Once the link has been created, you can use the Hyperlinks panel to check the destination document’s name and page (via a tooltip), or single click on the source or destination buttons to jump to them. Double-clicking the hyperlink listing (in this case <rectangle>) will open the Edit Hyperlink dialog box if you need to make changes.

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Adobe snuck a cool feature into InDesign CC 2014 called the Color Theme tool. You just se-lect the tool in the Tool panel (it’s just above

the Hand tool), then either click on an object (like an image) or drag the tool over a bunch of objects on the page. InDesign collects the most common colors from the selection and places them into the Color Theme panel that pops up. For example, in this image, I’ve dragged the tool over most of the page and its colors appear in the little floating panel:

Once the colors are in the floating panel, you can click the Add This Theme to Swatches button to cre-ate a new color group with those five color swatches in it. But here’s a secret shortcut: If you hold down the Q key when you click or drag with the Color Theme tool, InDesign will automatically create a color group with five color swatches in it. No fuss, no muss!

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By the way, you may notice that in the image at left, the colors are all defined as RGB. That is because the document was created with the Digital Publish-ing intent, which causes new swatches to be defined as RGB by default. If you create a document with Print intent, the Color Theme tool will add CMYK swatches by default.

You can override these defaults and force swatches to be created in RGB or CMYK by double-clicking on the Color Theme tool and selecting the color space you want from the Color Theme Options dialog box.

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You can resize a table with the Type tool by drag-ging the right or bottom edge. But if you want to resize all the rows, hold down the Shift key

while you drag the bottom edge.Note that resizing the table using these techniques

does not scale the text in the table.

By David Blatner

Resize Tables Quickly

To resize all the columns proportionally, Shift-drag the right edge (above).

Or, to resize the table rows and heights at the same time, just drag the lower-right corner of the table (right) with the Type tool.


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InDesign’s layers are great, but sometimes you can end up with so many layers that it gets confusing. To instantly hide all layers except one, hold the Op-

tion/Alt key and click the eye icon of the layer you want to remain visible.

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Notes are a great tool for saving comments and questions alongside the content in your InDe-sign documents. And it would also be great if

you could export those notes as PDF comments so other folks who didn’t have InDesign could read and respond to them as well. Unfortunately, there’s no command in InDesign to convert notes to comments. But there is in InCopy! And you can make use of it, even if you never use InCopy for anything else. Here’s how.

InCopy is part of Adobe’s Creative Cloud offerings, so if need be you can find and install it from the Apps tab in the Creative Cloud application.

Then just open your InDesign file in InCopy (use the File > Open command). You’ll see an alert if you don’t have any InCopy content in the InDesign file. Just close it. In fact, you don’t need any InCopy content since we’re not going to edit the document.

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Your layout should look the same as it does in InDesign but you won’t have any editing tools available. Again, that’s okay.

All we want is a PDF so just as you would in InDesign, choose File > Export > Adobe PDF (print). Note that you won’t see anywhere near the number of choices of export formats that you would in InDesign.

Here’s where the “magic” happens. There’s an item in the export dialog that I have long wished was in InDesign: Include Notes as Annotation.

Choose Export and when the PDF opens you’ll find your note(s) converted to comment(s):

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In honor of the September 2014 issue of InDesign Magazine, which is devoted to techniques and best practices for working with long documents, here’s a

tip for adding files to an InDesign Book.You can of course add InDesign files to a Book by

going to the Book panel menu and choosing Add Docu-ment. Or click on the + sign at the bottom of the panel. Then navigate to the file(s) and add them. You can also add multiple InDesign files to a Book just by drag and dropping them into the panel from the Mac’s Finder, Windows Explorer, or Adobe Bridge. You can also drag and drop a folder, to add all the InDesign files in it (in-cluding ones in subfolders) to your Book.

By Mike Rankin

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When you have lots of master pages in a doc-ument, it sure would be cool to jump from one to the next without having to make a

detour to the Pages panel. And in fact, you can jump di-rectly from one master to the next (or previous) one just by pressing Option/Alt+Page Down or Option/Alt+Page Up. You can also choose Next Spread or Previous Spread from the Layout menu.

Bonus Tip: You can also jump to a master by pressing Command+J/Ctrl+J and typing in the master’s prefix, or by using the menu in the dialog box.

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W ant a lightning fast way to edit a style? Just remember which InDesign feature has a lightning bolt symbol on it: Quick Apply!

To launch Quick Apply, press Command+Return (Mac) or Ctrl+Enter (Windows). It doesn’t matter what other panels you have open, where you are in your docu-ment, or even if you have text selected or not.

Start typing the name of the style you wish to edit. As soon as it is highlighted in Quick Apply, stop typing and press Command+Return or Ctrl+Enter again. The Style Options dialog box opens, ready for you to make your changes.

Also, with the Style Options open, you can press Command+1 (Mac) or Ctrl+1 (Windows) to put the focus on the list of options on the left side of the dialog box. Then just use the down and up arrow keys on your key-board to jump to the different sets of options.

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I f you’re creating a new style (paragraph, character, or object) and you realize you don’t have the color you need in your Swatches panel, just double-click

the fill or stroke color proxy to bring up the New Color Swatch dialog box.

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D id you know that you can use InDesign’s Find/Change to delete text? As long as you can iso-late that text to a style, that is. You are using

styles to format your text, right? That’s necessary for this trick to work

Say you want to delete all the text set in a particular paragraph or character style.

Open the Find/Change window and leave both the Find What and Change To fields empty. Click in the Find Format field, and use Style Options to choose a style. Leave Change Format blank. By doing this, you’ve told InDesign find anything set in that style and replace it with nothing.

Run the Find/Change and voila, all text set in that style (including inline and anchored items) is gone.

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You have ten modified InDesign documents open and your bus/train/significant other is about to leave without you.

What do you do?Jump up and leave everything in an unsaved state

and hope that the kids/cats/cleaning crew don’t mess up your work?

Nope. Just use the Save All and Close All features. These are just two of the many “hidden” InDesign key-board shortcuts. (Click the Show Set button in Edit > Edit Keyboard Shortcuts to hunt down other ones!)

Press Command+Shift+Option+S (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S (Windows) to save all open documents.

Then press Command+Shift+Option+W (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+Alt+W (Windows) to close all open documents.

Then go, go, go!

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Save and Close All Open Documents


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When you’re working with long text using the Story Editor (Edit > Edit in Story Editor) it can feel like a single Story Editor window

isn’t enough. Fortunately, you can add a second Story Editor for the current story by first making sure the Story Editor window is active and then choosing Window > Arrange > New Window for [filename].

By Bart Van de Wiele

Use a Duplicate Story Editor Window


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The dynamic captions feature in InDesign are cool, but if you already have dozens or even hundreds of images on multiple InDesign pages,

you might be thinking, “Hmm, I need to select images if I want to add captions, so I guess I will be selecting all the images, page by page.” Right?

Wrong! Instead, there is one place in InDesign that allows you to target all the images in the file at the same time and apply captions to them: the Links panel.

First, set up the captions for your document (choose Object > Captions > Caption Setup). This same com-mand is also in the Links panel menu.

Then in the Links panel, select all the links you want to add captions to. You can click on one and Shift-click on the last one.

Finally, choose Captions > Generate Static Captions from the Links panel menu (or right-click on the images in the Links panel). Voilà, all the captions are added throughout the document!

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InDesign’s Presentation Mode gives you an instant, uncluttered preview of your layout. Just press Shift+W to activate it. Even better: you can change

Presentation Mode’s background color to suit your layout.

Press W to set it to white, G to set it to neutral gray, and B to set it to black.

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The ability to base styles on one another is one of the most powerful and important features in InDesign. However, there are times when you’ll

want to use one style as the starting point for another, without making the new style based on the existing style. That way, the attributes of new style won’t change no matter how you change the existing style.

To do this, use the Duplicate Style feature: right-click on a style in the panel and choose Duplicate Style (or click on a style and choose Duplicate Style from the panel menu).

Your new style will start off with all the formatting of the existing style, but it will not be based on that style. Instead, it will be based on No Paragraph Style or what-ever style the existing style was based on.

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E ver have trouble finding a particular item in one of InDesign’s menus? Maybe you know the item is there somewhere, but can’t quickly locate it.

Or maybe you just think it was there, but you’re not real-ly sure. In either case, you can track down the item faster by displaying menu items in alphabetical order.

To do that, just hold Command+Shift+Option/Ctrl+Shift+Alt before clicking on the menu title. Alpha-betizing a menu also removes the divider lines that group related items together.

Or you can just view a submenu in alphabetical or-der by pressing Command+Shift+Option/Ctrl+Shift+Alt before clicking on the submenu.

By Mike Rankin

Find Menu Items Quickly by Alphabetizing Them

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Swatches are great and you should use them whenever possible to maintain consistent, easy-to-manage colors in your documents. But some-

times the Swatches panel isn’t the quickest way to apply a color. You can use the keyboard shortcuts , (comma) and . (period) to instantly apply the last-used solid color and the last-used gradient. To change a stroke or fill to None, press / (slash).

If you use a 2-column Tools panel, you can see these shortcuts (and buttons that perform the same functions) in a row near the bottom of the panel.

Note that these shortcuts will apply colors and gradients to either the fill or the stroke, depending on which is foremost in the Swatches and Tools panels. If the fill is foremost and you want to target the stroke (or vice versa), press X first. If you want to swap the stroke and fill of a selected object, press Shift+X.

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When you have a field highlighted in any panel or dialog box, pressing the up/down arrows on your keyboard increases or de-

creases the value in the field.Holding Shift while you press the arrow keys multi-

plies the amount of change in most cases by a factor of ten (tracking and kerning are notable exceptions to this rule).

When you have a font list targeted, you can select a different font family or style by pressing your arrow keys.

And don’t forget this works in other Adobe apps like Illustrator and Photoshop!

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Change Values in Panels with the Arrow Keys


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You can create a library of often-used symbols or special characters—for instance, a collection of currency symbols—by creating a glyph set.

Open the Glyphs panel from the Type menu or the Window > Type and Tables submenu. Choose New Glyph Set from the panel menu, and name it.

Then select a glyph in the panel, and choose Add to Glyph Set from the panel menu or from the contextual menu (right-click on the glyph). You can include glyphs from different typefaces in the same glyph set.

Being able to load your custom-made sets (choose it from the top of the Show pop-up menu, or choose View Glyph Set from the panel menu) in the Glyphs panel saves you from having to scroll through the entire font’s worth of glyphs just to find that one you need.

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Select the Case Sensitive option when you enter a word into a spelling dictionary (Edit > Spelling > User Dictionary) if the word you’re adding is a

trade name, proper name, or a word with intercaps, such as “InDesign.”

This way, if the word is used in your document with improper capitalization, it will be flagged as a spelling error.

By Keith Gilbert

Spellcheck Capitalization in Your Added Words


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E ven in this age of Flat Design, you occasionally need to add a drop shadow or two to make items pop. When you do, add a little noise—just

3–5% is plenty in most cases—to create a more natural-looking effect.

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When you want to prevent yourself from edit-ing an object on the page, lock it by press-ing Cmd/Ctrl+L. To unlock just the object,

click the lock icon at the edge of its frame.To unlock everything on the spread, press

Cmd+Opt+L (Ctrl+Alt+L). Another way to lock objects is to use InDesign’s Layers panel to individually lock any item on the page.

Bonus tip: If you want to just lock the position and size of objects, but still be able to change their appear-ance, open InDesign’s General preferences and de-select Prevent Selection of Locked Objects.

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Normally, once you hide an object in an InDe-sign document (via Object > Hide, pressing Command+3/Ctrl+3, or clicking the object’s

Show/Hide button in the Layers panel), it leaves few traces of its presence. Hidden objects aren’t printed or exported, and they won’t show up in a Find/Change. They can, however, still affect other objects with text wrap.

But if you really want to give these objects nowhere to hide, use a preflight profile to reveal them.

From the Preflight Panel menu, choose Define Pro-files. Click the + (plus) button to create a new preflight profile. Give your new profile a name, and in the IMAGES and OBJECTS options, select Hidden Page Items (plus whatever other conditions you want InDesign to check for).

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Click OK, and then select your new profile from the panel menu. If there are any hidden objects, they will be listed as errors and you can double-click them in the panel to jump to their location in the document.

But you still won’t see them until you show them (by pressing Command+Option+3/Ctrl+Alt+3, or choosing Object > Show All on Spread, or clicking the object’s Show/Hide button in the Layers panel).

With tools like these you can be the World Cham-pion of Hide and Seek (at least inside InDesign).

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A t one time or another, we’ve all sent a docu-ment to print, only to find out that we speci-fied the wrong paper size, orientation, etc. And

while recycling is great, it’s a lot better to not use the paper in the first place.

So if you have to print a document, do yourself (and the trees) a favor, and check the print preview in the lower left of the Print dialog box. It offers three views that you can toggle by clicking the preview area.

The first one is Standard, which shows the relation-ship of your document page to the chosen paper size, plus things like bleed, slug area, page marks, tiling, and thumbnails. It’s the default preview.

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Click the preview area to toggle on the second pre-view type, Text, which shows the specific numerical val-ues of your page and paper size, scaling, etc.

Click one more time on the preview section to see the third option, Custom Page/Cut Sheet view. This view shows effects of offset, gap, and transverse set-tings, plus the output mode using different color icons for Separations, Composite Grayscale, Composite CMYK, and Composite RGB.

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Close all open documents z U X W Ctrl+Shift+Alt+W

Rebuild Preferences (press during program launch until Alert appears)

Ctrl z U X Ctrl+Shift+Alt

Document History & Plug-in Info z About InDesign Ctrl+About InDesign

Toggle Measurement System z U X U Ctrl+Shift+Alt+U

Tools panelTemporary Hand Tool U Spacebar Alt+Spacebar

Temporary Zoom Tool z Spacebar Ctrl+Spacebar

Apply default fill and stroke colors D D

Swap fill and stroke activation X X

Swap fill and stroke colors X X Shift+X

Toggle color affects text/its frame J J

Preview mode on/off W W

TextLoad Find and Find Next instance X F1 Shift+F1

Load Find with selected text z F1 Ctrl+F1

Load Replace with selected text z F2 Ctrl+F2

Replace Change To text and Find Next X F3 Shift+F3

Recompose all stories z U / Ctrl+Alt+/

Toggle Typographer’s Quotes Pref. U X z ’ Ctrl+Shift+Alt+’

Create outlines (text remains) z U X O Ctrl+Shift+Alt+O

Align to baseline grid z U X G Ctrl+Shift+Alt+G

Auto-hyphenate on/off z U X H Ctrl+Shift+Alt+H

Toggle Table Cell/Text Selection Escape Escape

Object editingEdit Original U doubleclick Alt+doubleclick

Decrease size / scale by 1% 5% z , z U , Ctrl+, Ctrl+Alt+,

Increase size / scale by 1% 5% z . z U . Ctrl+. Ctrl+Alt+.

Nudge by 1/10 z X Arrow Keys Ctrl+Shift+Arrows

Nudge by 10× X Arrow Keys Shift+Arrow Keys

Toggle Live Corners Mode 4 4

Override Master Page item z X click Ctrl+Shift+ click

Select Container, Content esc, Xesc esc, Shift+esc

Transform Sequence Again z U 4 Ctrl+Alt+4

Transform: Move Item z X M Ctrl+Shift+M

Hide z 3 Ctrl+3

Show All On Spread z U 3 Ctrl+Alt+3

Text navigationMove to the start of the line Home Home

Move to the end of the line End End

Move to beginning of story z Home Ctrl+Home

Move to end of story z End Ctrl+End

Select to end of story z X End Ctrl+Shift+End

Move to the next paragraph z Down Arrow Ctrl+Down Arrow

Move to the previous paragraph z Up Arrow Ctrl+Up Arrow

Go to first frame in thread z U X Page Up Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Pg Up

Go to last frame in thread z U X Page Down Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Pg Dn

Go to next frame in thread z U Page Down Ctrl+Alt+Page Down

Go to previous frame in thread z U Page Up Ctrl+Alt+Page Up

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Increase/Decrease Baseline shift U X Up/Down Arrow Alt+Shift+Up/Down Arr.

Increase/Decrease Baseline shift 5× z U X Up/Down Arrow Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Up/Down

Increase/Decrease Kerning/Tracking U Right/Left Arrow Alt+Right/Left Arrow

Increase/Decrease Kerning/Tracking 5×

z U Right/Left Arrow Ctrl+Alt+Right/Left Arrow

Increase/Decrease Leading U Down/Up Arrow Alt+Down/Up Arrow

Increase/Decrease Leading 5× z U Down/Up Arrow Ctrl+Alt+Down/Up Arrow

Increase/Decrease Text point size z X . or , Ctrl+Shift+. or ,

Increase/Decrease Text point size 5× z U X . or , Ctrl+Shift+Alt+. or ,

Increase/Decrease Word space z U \ or Delete Ctrl+Alt+\ or BackspaceIncrease/Decrease Word space 5× z U X \ or Delete Ctrl+Shift+Alt+\ or BckspcReset font style (to “Regular”) z X Y Ctrl+Shift+Y

Reset kerning and tracking to 0 z U Q Ctrl+Alt+Q

Reset horizontal text scale to 100% z X X Ctrl+Shift+X

Reset vertical text scale to 100% z U X X Ctrl+Shift+Alt+X

Special charactersBullet U 8 Alt+8

Copyright Symbol U G Alt+G

Registration Symbol U R Alt+R

Em Dash U X – Alt+Shift+ –

En Dash U – Alt+ –

Ellipsis U ; Alt+ ;

Right Indent Tab X Tab Shift+Tab

New index page reference z 7 Ctrl+7

Add new index entry z U X [ Ctrl+Shift+Alt+[

Display viewsFit Selection in Window z U = Ctrl+Alt+=

View Scale 50%, 200%, 400% z 5, z 2, z 4 Ctrl+5, Ctrl+2, Ctrl+4

Toggle current/previous view scale z U 2 Ctrl+Alt+2

Force screen redraw X F5 Shift+F5

Clear Object-Level Settings z X F2 Ctrl+Shift+F2

Presentation Background: Black/White B or W B or W

Show/Hide Conveyor U B Alt+B

Page navigationNext window z ` Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+ `

Previous window z X ` Ctrl+Shift+Tab

First Spread U X Page Up, Home Home

Last Spread U X Page Dn., End End

Next Spread U Page Down Alt+Page Down

Previous Spread U Page Up Alt+Page Up

Panel tricksShow/Hide all panels Tab Tab

Show/Hide all panels except Tools and Control

X Tab Shift+Tab

Open/Close all docked panels z U Tab Ctrl+Alt+Tab

Activate last-used field in panel z U ` Ctrl+Alt+`

Jump to Control Panel z 6 Ctrl+6

Switch Character and Paragraph Modes in Control Panel

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