In this InDesign how-to video, Laurie Ruhlin shows how to automate colored page tabs with an assist from Illustrator. Taken from the “Three Minutes Max” event at CreativePro Week 2020, she taps into the Illustrator file’s layers from within InDesign to display only the elements she needs.
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This article was last modified on August 29, 2025
This article was first published on November 6, 2020
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