Hi Fred:
I hear you. As a career InDesign instructor who teaches brand new users all the time, I am grateful for the choices that InDesign (and the other CC apps) offer. What clicks immediately for one student may be baffling to another in the same class. Zooming is a great example: some prefer the menu, some prefer shortuts, some prefer the scroll wheel and some prefer tools.
I've been in the classroom for 35 years, and I learned a long time ago not to push one techique or another, but to observe and listen and adapt to each individual. I try to incorporate that mindset in my Community Forum answers because I don't have any idea about the background of the OPs, how they think or what mobility issues they may have.
Like you, I specialize in long document layout (InDesign and FrameMaker) and to me, the techiniques I employ while working alone don't matter to anyone but me. Just a thought!
~Barb
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