Identify the Adornments Contest Answer and Winner!

It’s time to reveal the solution—and the winner—for this month’s InDesignSecrets contest!

But first, a confession. This contest was nearly a total flop: only one person entered! This was shocking to us since a lot of our contests get over 100 entries, and most folks who enter have the correct answer. It seemed so bizarre that I had to test my email account to be sure it was working right. Surely a bunch of entries mistakenly got sent to my spam folder…nope. So we tried getting the word out with extra social media posts. Nothing.

For these monthly contests we try to come up with questions that are hard enough to be interesting, but still easy enough so a lot of people can answer correctly and have a shot at winning the prize. We thought we had a good one this time: identify seven of the small adornments that can appear on frames in InDesign. We thought it would be somewhat challenging, but apparently it was a lot harder than that.

We need your help here to figure out what went wrong. We know how smart you all are because we see your entries in all the other contests. Was it simply the case that this question was way too hard? Should we have allowed partially complete (“best out of 7”) answers? Maybe no one works with frame edges showing? Or has no one ever seen the cloud adornment before? Was it something else?

Please, let us know in the comments!

Now for the good news. We do have a winner: Kristin Lam! She wins a license for Style Utilities from In-tools (and our undying gratitude for preventing us from stumping the entire InDesignSecrets community with this contest). The other copy of Style Utilities we’ll save for a future prize.

Here are the answers to the contest:

1.  locked frame
2.  linked content (missing)
3. interactive button
4. animation
5.  Adobe Stock image placed from CC Library
6.  list box form field
7.  InCopy content (available)

And while we’re on the topic, I’ll point out that there are many more adornments you might come across in your InDesign documents. Here are 10 of them:

1. overset text
2. live corner control
3. anchored object control (currently unanchored)
4.  anchored object control (currently anchored)
5. linked content (up to date)
6. linked content (modified)
7. InCopy content (currently editing)
8. InCopy content (checked out by someone else)
9. PDF form field (signature)
10.  note (technically not a frame adornment, but good to know nonetheless)

Be on the lookout for another (easier) contest with a new great prize next month! And please let us know in the comments what you thought about this one. Thanks.

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