When I was a kid, I had a little “inspirational” poster in my bedroom of the Peanuts cartoon strip’s Lucy saying, “It’s better to bitch, moan, and complain than never to have bitched, moaned, and complained at all.” (I’m not making this up.) With that in mind, I hereby institute the official InDesignSecrets Gripe of the Moment (IDSGOM).
Copy a paragraph. Place cursor in front of some other paragraph. Paste. Paragraph appears… and InDesign inserts a space in front of the next paragraph. [Insert painful groan like the cries of a weary traveller who just can’t get that pebble out of his shoe.] The solution? Press Delete to remove the space. But after over a year of pressing delete each time I paste a paragraph, and after upgrading to InDesign 4.01, 4.02, and 4.03… well, a guy just gets tired. So tired. So very, very tired.
Please. Adobe. Give us 4.04, and give us peace. Stop the madness. Thank you. This has been the IDSGOM.
This article was last modified on December 18, 2021
This article was first published on July 11, 2006
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