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Michael J B
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Michael J B
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‎Jan 09, 2022
10:10 AM
I am working on a table with quite a few different requirements for fills, text justification, strokes, etc. To manage these requirements I am setting up cell styles. Everything is working well except for the strokes. I have read Adobe's online help articles and the whole business of applying strokes strikes me as counterintuitive, or some kind of homage to Dante...or the problem is operator error on my part. Please refer to Table Cell Strokes 01, attached, showing a cell with an image of hands and a plant. I have not been able to get what I need in terms of strokes which is: • solid stroke at top and right; • no stroke at left; • dashed stroke at bottom. When I select the cell and open the cell style dialogue box at Strokes and Fills, what I see at this point in my "exploration" is captured in Table Cell Strokes 02. How do I get the arrangemet of strokes that I need? Thanks in advance! When I select the
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‎Oct 27, 2021
02:14 PM
Please refer to 01 Screen Shot and 02 Screen Shot, attached. I have an author's quotation made up of 3 small paragraphs. In 01 I used my paragraph style for quotations. However, I don't want a blank line between the paragraphs so I used a soft return and got what is shown in 02, which is not what I want. The paragraph style has justification set to Left Justify. How do I modify the style to eliminate the 3 words spreading out over the whole line? Thanks in advance.
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‎Jul 14, 2021
07:36 AM
I created a table 2 years ago and I am now altering it. The Cell Style pane shows a + sign after the name of the style used in the cell shown with highlighted text in attached screen shot labelled 01 Cell Style panel. I understand that the + sign indicates that something is going on in the cell that is "more" than the style but I cannot figure out what the "more" is. I have also attached two screen shots of related panels: • 02 Table panel; • 03 Paragraph Style panel. If I hold down the Option key and click on the cell style (Mac) to remove the +, the 0.25 inch margin at the top shown in the Table panel changes to 0.05 inch and the text goes right to the top. So it appears that the cell style includes a top margin of 0.05 rather than the 0.25 inch that I want. How do I save the cell style so that it has a top margin of 0.25? Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
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‎Jul 14, 2021
07:19 AM
I created a table 2 years ago and I am now altering it. The Cell Style pane shows a + sign after the name of the style used in the cell shown with highlighted text in attached screen shot labelled 01 CellStyle panel. I understand that the + sign indicates that something is going on in the cell that is "more" than the style but I cannot figure out what the "more" is. I have also attached two screen shots of related panels: • 02 Table Style panel; • 03 Paragraph Style panel. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
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‎Jul 13, 2021
06:54 AM
I have opened a table that I created 2 years ago. How do I determine the height of an existing row in the table? Cell Options / Rows and Columns allows me to set minimum and maximum height but I cannot remember how to find the actual existing height of a selected row. Thanks in advance.
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‎Jul 11, 2021
04:38 PM
Hello, Thanks, but I did that yesterday yet I still get Mailer messages that I do not want - the settings I saved yesterday are as per the attached screen shot. I am hoping there is a further option. Regards, Michael Vision in Form NOTE: This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential, personal and / or privileged information, or information which is exempt from disclosure under applicable Federal or Provincial Law. If the reader of this transmission is not the intended recipient or the agent or employee responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this transmission is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify us by telephone or email, then destroy the original transmission.
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‎Jul 11, 2021
05:44 AM
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I subsrcibed to InDesign a few days ago and posted a question on Adobe Support Community. At the time I noticed the Topics and the thought I would follow a few. Later, when I discovered the number of Adobe Support Community Mailers this dumped into my email inbox, I went back and turned "Follow" off for the Topics I had selected. At least I thought I did - I am still receiving piles of Mailers which seem to be related to the "How To" Topic. Attached screen shot Adobe Support 01 shows all Topics set to "Unfollow"; Attached screen shot Adobe Support 02 shows Notifications in my Account Settings. I am sure that I will again need to post questions to the "How To" Topic and I would like to be notified when I receive a reply but I really need to stop the flow of other posts - how do I do that? Thanks in advance!
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‎Jul 10, 2021
10:04 AM
I have not used InDesign for a few years. I have opened an old file; on one of the pages I have a graphic object. I need to move the object off to the side of the page but when I do so I can no longer see it. I have forgotten how to make objects that are off the page visible - how is this done? Thanks in advance for assistance.
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‎Jan 09, 2021
04:16 PM
I am using version 2020.013.20074. I have been creating a series of stamps to use in marking up documents. During the preparation I had initially placed them in a category named "Asterisk". For various reasons having to do with subject matter I decided to change the category name to "Mysticism" - I did so by opening the Manage window, selecting the stamps one by one and changing the category name. When I went to apply the stamps, I opened the Pallets window, selected the category Mysticism and found it was blank. I found the stamps for Mysticism were actually now under a category previously created called "Shop Drawing Review" (multiple copies of the Mysticism stamps appear in this pallet. The stamps for the "Shop Drawing Review" category do not show up under any other category name in the Pallets window but they do exist under "Shop Drawing Review" when I select the Stamps icon in the Comment bar. What is happening? Thanks in advance. Michael
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‎Aug 10, 2020
11:20 AM
I am using a Mac. How do I set comment tool default properties - I thought right clicking on a tool would allow me do so but no reference to setting the default comes up.
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‎Jun 19, 2019
02:56 PM
I have set up a paragraph style for quatations. When I apply it to appropriate text the last line of the quotation ends up one line too low as per attached image. Why is this happening?
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‎Apr 19, 2019
11:36 AM
I just realized that all I did was keep splitting and merging cells in each column until I had a close approximation of the heights of cells that I needed. Thanks for the responses,I wish i had remembered this earlier.
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‎Apr 19, 2019
10:49 AM
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This still does not seem to get at the issue due to the fact that I was not clear about what I am trying to do. The following image is of a table I was working on before Christmas. The cells in columns 1 and 2 are all the same height. Somehow I managed to figure out how to vary the number of cells and their heights in columns 3 and 4. I have now come back to the table and want to finish it by completing column 5 which needs to have 5 cells that, like the cells in columns 3 and 4, have their own individual heights. My problem is that I cannot remember how I was able to format the cell heights in columns 3 and 4. My apologies for the initial lack of clarity - I somehow thought it was simple.
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‎Apr 18, 2019
10:49 PM
Your upper table shows the general idea of what I am attempting to create except I was identifying 2 columns, not 2 rows: a Column A with 5 cells and a Column B with 4 cells, and both columns having the same height. I understand that I can create 5 rows in both columns and then merge 2 of them in Column B to get 4 cells, but I need the horizontal strokes of the 4 cells to not line up with the horizontal strokes of the 5 cells. What I do not understand is how to manipulate the horizontal strokes of the 4 cells in order to achieve this condition.
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‎Apr 18, 2019
03:18 PM
I need to create a table with 2 columns. I need 5 cells in the 1st column and 4 cells in the 2nd column, and the top and bottom of each column needs to be the same height. How do I do this? Thanks in advance. Michael
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‎Mar 25, 2019
09:10 AM
Steve and Chad - both answers were helpful. I have followed the link inyour replies but do not find the "Correct" button. Re: Gradient
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‎Mar 23, 2019
07:46 PM
Thanks, so simple. I noticed that I have a second issue: I have a number of text boxes and the text in all boxes uses the same paragraph style however there is more space between the top of the box and the first line of text in some instances than in others. What causes this...i.e., how to I get them to be the same? Again, thanks in advance.
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‎Mar 23, 2019
04:04 PM
I applied a gradient to the colour in a graphic box. I would like to have colour as solid; how do I remove the gradient effect? Thanks in advance.
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‎May 11, 2018
10:05 PM
1 Upvote
Thanks.
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‎May 11, 2018
02:00 PM
1 Upvote
Thanks. Some of the entries are staggered, that is, they do not span a full row or occupy portions of adjacent rows. Is the only way to accomplish such an arrangement to split cells as necessary and then resize split cells so that the visual effect is correct (including hiding horizontal Lines as necessary). It just seems a bit non-computer like.
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‎May 11, 2018
01:10 PM
How do I create cells that span rows so that I can achieve the result show in this image? Thanks in advance.
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‎Mar 18, 2018
04:12 PM
Yes, thanks, that solved that issue, however, it immediately presented another one. I was using the Master that I had created for bibliography pages when the problem you solved arose. Now, I have gone to a different file in which the bibliography resides and I want to copy/paste its content into the file I am using for the book (long story as to why biblio was started in a different file - more "not knowing InDesign" stuff). As shown in the image below, I have added pages for the biblio, starting at page 18. Pages 1 to 17 use a body text Master. The text boxes on pages 1-17 are linked. Page 18 is the start of a new section. I have been digging around in Help but cannot find info on best practice when starting a new section, i.e., do I begin page 18 with a text block that is NOT linked to the text blocks flowing through to the end of page 17? If the biblio should begin with a text box not linked to the text before it, does that mean when I add a section after the biblio for figures and then another for the index, that each of these sections should have their own text boxes not linked to the body text or to text in any other section (and, by implication, when the book's body tex gets beyond 17 pages, I add additional pages at that point in the structure to accommodate more body text?) [Branched by moderator from "Find/Replace italics with character style?" This is a new topic.] .
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‎Mar 18, 2018
01:17 PM
1 Upvote
Oh, brother!! Thank you, so simple and obvious - what was I thinking...
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‎Mar 18, 2018
11:13 AM
Jane-e and Rob: Thank you for your helpful suggestions - I have had a limited education in the use of InDesign and have used it for a limited series of tasks in the past, hence my reason for resorting to the forum. It is a relief to receive responses that move the conversation forward (Barb Binder responded when I had some questions a few weeks ago and her information was also very helpful). I hope this image provides the info you are asking for:
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‎Mar 17, 2018
06:50 PM
Refer to image below -
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‎Mar 17, 2018
03:47 PM
1 Upvote
I may not have been aware of "topic etiquette" for this forum - I spend almost no time on forums such as this - but that does not excuse you for not accurately reading my text. I did not state or even suggest that I had applied or intended to apply a character style to an entire paragraph.
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‎Mar 17, 2018
11:40 AM
I have a lot of bibliography entries which are in a paragraph style using Palatino but with an italics character style applied to the book title. I have brought them into a different file where I am using Libre Caslon Text. Applying the new paragraph style does not alter the character style of the title as per attached image. Is it possible to search text with some form of Find/Replace to find Palatino and replace with Libre Caslon rather than manually selecting each book title and applying Libre Caslon character style?
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‎Mar 06, 2018
12:35 PM
As a related aside, the image I sent above has a diagonal in the station platform edge just in front of the town worthies. The image below, taken five years later, during early summer, shows the scene looking north from the platform rather looking south as per the previous. The figure dressed in black in the background sitting on the diagonal is Mark Twain, with his wife standing beside him on his right. The woman in the foreground is a Clemens family friend who was travelling with them and the woman to her right, bending over two four-footed locals who knew a good pat when they saw one is the Clemen's daughter Clara. Twain was heading West across the US on his 1895 world tour and diverted up to Winnipeg, Manitoba. The train crossed the international border 70 miles south of Winnipeg at Gretna. While everyone presumably got off to stretch their legs, Clemens had serious issues with varicose veins which may explain why he is sitting. I spent my childhood in Gretna during the 1950s and the station and the platform, complete with diagonal, were still there. I found the image by googling the Gretna station - who'd-a-thunk!
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