align text vertically center in indd

That's it. There are some shortcuts, but for whatever reasons vertical alignment is a frame/structure element, not a paragraph (style) element. So you have to go around the long way, one way or another, to vertically center content. Which means, then, that the vertical centering will not flow from page to page as, say, a section title moves.

ID could really use a feature to tie Parent Page or content-frame assignment to, say, a paragraph style so that chapter start pages and the like could flow through a document. I believe FrameMaker finally got a feature something like that.

But for now, Object Styles help a lot. 🙂