hi, Vinny, I have another list, much shorter: What Got Better in this 'New Space' Every new feature starts out in the hole by 100 points © Eric Gunnerson 1. ? Honestly, I'm stuck at this point… 😕 ... View more

Didn't you try to save your Excel file to older xls format, and place to iD that? ... View more

I'd prefer this AIO: Find: (\w+, )\1 Change to: $1 Repeat Change All untill no matches will be found. ... View more

Pages panel flyout menu > View Pages > Horizontally. ... View more

Did you look into Conditional Text feature? ... View more

IF the path you want is the only one in an image, or at least the first in the list, try this javascript. It will check all imported images in an active document, and will enable the first photoshop path, if available: myDoc = app.activeDocument length = myDoc.allGraphics.length for (i=0;i<length;i++) { try { myDoc.allGraphics[i].clippingPath.clippingType = ClippingPathType.PHOTOSHOP_PATH } catch(err) } ... View more

Hm, seems like Mike is right. Just tested ID 5.0 (CS3), and indeed, it works without spacebar. I think, in some later version spacebar was included because of gridify, which is unavailable in CS3. So, it must be version 6 or 7 (CS4-CS5.5). Don't have any of these installed, so coudn't test. When gridify was introduced? ... View more

Put your cursor anywhere in the first paragraph, and run this simple javascript (sure, check your style names first. I used Line 1, Line 2, Line 3). If your text frame begins with those 3 paras, it's enough to just select that text frame, and run the script.     mySel=app.selection[0]; p = mySel.paragraphs[0]; p.appliedParagraphStyle="Line 1"; p = p.insertionPoints[-1].paragraphs[0]; p.appliedParagraphStyle="Line 2"; p = p.insertionPoints[-1].paragraphs[0]; p.appliedParagraphStyle="Line 3";     ... View more

Just a note regarding frames locking: only if in document Preferences Prevent Selection of Locked Objects is activated. I'd recommend to keep it OFF, then you just can't alter the size/position of a locked text frame, but you can easily do any edits to the text itself, including changing color… ... View more

Are you able to package any other your ID project? Just to eliminate possible corruption of InDesign preferences. Did you try exporting to pdf? Sometimes it can encounter that same error with the link, and stop. How many pages has your indd doc? Try to divide it to two or more parts, and test if you can export/package 'short versions', one by one. Make non-working part shorter and shorter, until you identify that one 'special' page with your corrupted link/linked file. ... View more

Ok, seems like the problem is your links (linked files), not ID document. Can you copy those linked files to new location using some file manager, say, Finder? Collect everything on your local disk, don't try to package files from the local network. In theory, network shouldn't be a problem, but sometimes it is. ... View more

1. Always install font for all users. Installing just for current user sometimes may be somewhat problematic. 2. Try manual copy of font files to Windows/Fonts directory. 3. Some people also report problems with 'install font' command when Windows firewall is OFF. FWIW, it's rather an OS problem, not InDesign itself. Derek is right, it's not officially supported config, however, in most cases it can run without significant issues (so far). EDIT: My fault, didn't read your post carefully. Do you have exactly this package of fonts working properly, on any machine? There may be inaccurate (duplicated) info in font files themselves. I would check them in some font editing app like FontLab Studio or similar, or replace with tested and known as 'working' package. EDIT2: Feel free to remove (simply delete) all AdobeFnt[some number].lst files. It's safe, and yes, may help in some cases. InDesign will recreate everything needed. ... View more

Hit F12 to call Pages panel and check Master pages… ... View more

I have also tried to select all the links and copy to a new folder. I get an error message there too Copy using what? File manager? Local hard disk, or network? What message says, exactly? Resolve the problem message complains about, and then try to package again. FWIW, there's no such thing as 'the most current version'. Please provide exact name and version number. It may (or may not) be relevant. ... View more

Well, this one will find paras with one tab ^([^\t\r]+\t)[^\t]+$ this one with two ^([^\t\r]+\t){2}[^\t]+$ with three ^([^\t\r]+\t){3}[^\t]+$ with four ^([^\t\r]+\t){4}[^\t]+$ and so on (just change the number between curly brackets). ... View more

Then seems like it was styled ok, and I don't see a reason to abandon that. Frankly, still couldn't get your workflow and what you're trying to accomplish… Why not to use 2 para styles here: 1. Title: bold type, with paragraph rule below, defined tabs. 2. Body: all the rest lines (paragraphs) in a regular type, defined tabs (since this isn't a table, right?) ... View more

IMO, you shouldn't bother with baseline shift in a such layout. Take time to fix your styles: return baseline shift back to normal, adjust leading and space before/after. I'd also use Paragraph rules instead underline. EDIT: and don't use Char style for the whole paragraph, it's a no-no, too… ... View more

"find everything till the end of text story, except hard break returns". Effectively it selects the last paragraph in a text story (which not always means 'text frame'). Baseline shift? I don't see it, and why you need it? What's your final goal here? Apply different para style? Some character level formatting? Or what? ... View more

That’s possible in a number of ways, but you should provide more details, I think. If you have exactly what we see: always a separate text story where we need to catch always the last paragraph, this one will work: [^\r]+\Z If not, please elaborate. ... View more

As I said - it's for whole paragraph. Some other suggestions here are about the same. For example, creating another para style. It's not clear from OP's query. IF you have only one instance, no need to make it more complex than it is. Anyway, always is good to know more than one way. ... View more

There's a simpler way, imo. Strictly speaking, you can’t disable GREP for just one instance, but you can do this for a paragraph, without creating yet another style. Put your text cursor in a paragraph which contains your word(s), go to ‘hamburger’ menu at the very right corner of Control panel (right after Quick Apply), select GREP Styles…, delete or disable the query you don’t want to be applied to that paragraph. Done. Note: plus sign appears next to your para style name, showing there is an override. ... View more

assign it to the letter I followed by a space with a GREP style. Hi, Barb, my 2 cents, if you don’t mind: applying No Break to the space is just enough: \bI\K\h ... View more

A touch of the Master. Sometimes you may find useful to add to this excellent regex above a Case-insensitive On modifier (?i), say, to pick up a word at the beginning of a sentence. ... View more

Laubender  wrote To my knowledge, the 8.1 has never been available as a separate download installer. Hi, Uwe, not exactly so. Offline 8.1 installer was available up to May 2019, when Adobe stopped offering CS6 with a CC subscription. The download link (now dead) was: http://swupdl.adobe.com/updates/oobe/aam20/win/AdobeInDesignCS6-8.0/8.1.0.422/setup.zip Laubender  wrote I don't know anyone who has managed to get an update installer version 8.1 for the purchase version of CS6. 2 moths ago, just for fun and testing, installed perpetual license CS6 on virtual XP machine and successfully updated using offline installer from the link above: Now you know at least one ... View more

As others already pointed out, you can't just unassign them. But you can override! For example: Alt+L activates Layout menu. I have assigned this key to Align Left Edges, as a custom KB shortcut. Now, when I hit this command with more than one object selected, their edges get aligned to left. With nothing selected it still activates Layout menu. Another case: Alt+V activates View menu. I have set this command to switch to Type tool from any other. Since this works in any context, activating View menu through Alt+V command is always overridden and effectively disabled. ... View more

Define correct bleeds in Document Setup. In PDF Export dialog, Marks and Bleeds tab: 1. Uncheck All Printer's Marks in Marks section 2. Tick ON Use Document Bleed Settings in a Bleed and Slug section. 3. Export your PDF, send to your printer. ... View more