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7 Tools I Wish I Knew About When I First Learned InDesign

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7 Tools I Wish I Knew About When I First Learned InDesign

Have you ever had a moment when you discover something new about a subject you thought you were pretty great at already? It’s both amazing and deflating at the same time.

I first learned InDesign when I was a sophomore in high school, and I’ve been using it pretty consistently ever since. And yet, despite having more than a decade of experience with the program, I’m learning new features regularly. Sometimes it makes me feel dumb, in a “why didn’t I know about this from the beginning?” way. But other times, I get so excited, because this new and exciting thing is going to save me a bunch of time.

Some of these discoveries aren’t applicable in a whole bunch of situations, but there are 7 tools that I discovered after the fact that would have been really helpful to know when I first learned InDesign.

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Intimidated by InDesign? Here are the 7 Tools to Start With

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InDesign is an awesome tool! But like all software, it can be really intimidating. If you're a beginner, don't be intimidated by InDesign! Here are the 7 tools to start using first.

InDesign is an amazing tool to utilize, whether you’re a blogger, a small business owner, or a social media manager.

But, just like with any new software program, it can be really intimidating the first few hundred times you open it. That’s the downside of a program with so many amazing features: it’s hard to know which ones to start with!

So, for all of the InDesign beginners out there, don’t be intimidated by InDesign! Here are the 7 tools you should start with.

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How to Save Time with Custom InDesign Page Sizes

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InDesign is an amazing tool for so many things--ebooks, worksheets, even buttons for your website! But how can we save time with InDesign? By creating custom InDesign page sizes! Click through for the tutorial!

Hey—want some one-on-one help getting this set up? Book a 20-minute consultation and we can work through it via video chat!

If you’ve been reading And Possibly Dinosaurs for a while, you know that two of my favorite things are saving time and InDesign. So I’m super excited to share an awesome way to save time with InDesign: custom InDesign page sizes!

Whenever you open an InDesign document, it’s traditionally going to auto-fill your page size as a single-page, vertical letter-sized document. You can choose other options that have already been created for you, like Tabloid, Legal, and Half Letter. But what if you’ve got a custom size you’d like to be able to easily select from the drop-down menu without having to look up the dimensions each time?

That’s where custom InDesign page sizes come in! You can tell InDesign what page sizes you’d like available, and it will show them in the Page Size drop-down menu for you. Pretty awesome, right?

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