Cari Jansen details of her favorite ways to scrub messy manuscript till it shines.

This InDesign tip on using frame fitting options for templates was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on September 21, 2017. Sign up now and every week you’ll get a new tip, keyboard shortcut, and roundups of new articles, plus exclusive deals sent right to your Inbox! Just scroll down to the bottom of this page, enter your […]

With this tip to convert corner effects to paths, you can combine corner effects to make shapes and effects that are otherwise impossible to do in InDesign.

Got arrows or callout lines that are almost invisible over a dark background? Here's an easy fix.

When it comes to creating space between paragraphs in InDesign we generally use the Space Before and Space After options. These settings suffice for continuous text flow. However when I work on single-frame stories, there are times when I wish I had access to what I’d call ‘flexible paragraph spacing’ in InDesign. I use two workarounds […]

How do you quickly find an image that is linked in InDesign on your system or network? This post gives you a number of quick find techniques.

How to move find/change queries to InDesign CC.

How do we use the 'Number of Columns' feature in the Convert Text to Table dialog?

Another fun stroke style example, that sets a black keyline with a white gap.

InDesign allows us to design our own stroke styles for dashes, stripes and dots. The following is a creative example of building and applying your own stripe.