I guess InDesign must be perfect, because despite our request in our latest podcast (episode 177) to email us your favorite “ridiculous feature,” we’ve barely received any. C’mon people! :D
Perhaps it’s because we didn’t get to the topic until about 25 minutes into the podcast, when I had to go answer the doorbell and David took over for a minute. Maybe people took that cue to also go answer their own doorbells while he prattled on about something or other? Heh. Well, he wasn’t talking about the winding number rule, folks, he announced that in our next podcast, we thought it would be illuminating (and fun) to trash talk InDesign a bit, and asked listeners to email us what they consider to be a ridiculous feature.
What exactly do we mean by a “ridiculous” feature? Something silly. Something useless. Something that InDesign offers that is kind of dumb or clunky, that you’d never use, that you don’t think anyone has ever used, actually.
Like maybe this?
Or this?
Or how about this?
Even icons are fair game … like, what’s with the Eye of Horus here? It’s creepy.
We have a few in mind, and Sandee Cohen just emailed us a good one in the Cell Options dialog box. But we want more!
We love the element of surprise, so it’d be great if you could email us your nomination(s) at in**@*************ts.com, and then we’ll talk about them in the next podcast (episode 178, sometime in the first half of August), and people can bash them (or defend them) with comments in the Show Notes after. If you e-mail us, use the subject “Ridiculous!” so it’s easier for us to find.
But if you feel compelled to write about your favorite ridiculous feature in the comments below, be our guest. Just don’t be too mean, please, otherwise we’ll need to delete the comment! This is in the spirit of a good-natured ribbing of the program we all love.
This article was last modified on December 21, 2021
This article was first published on August 1, 2012
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