Episode 018
Podcast 018
• Frame Frenzy: Preventing InDesign from turning empty shape frames into text frames
• Various ways to unthread a single text frame from a threaded story
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- Frame Frenzy: Preventing InDesign from turning empty shape frames into text frames
- Various ways to unthread a single text frame from a threaded story
- Why your Paragraph Styles aren’t in alpha-order and how to fix it
- Custom view scale percentages with a keyboard shortcut
- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: The Magnet
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