Episode 175
Podcast 175
• The Adobe Creative Cloud: What is it?
• Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Option/Alt-double-click
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Split Cell Vertically
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- The Adobe Creative Cloud: What is it?
- In the "cloud" vs. on your hard drive
- The good, the bad, the foggy
- Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Option/Alt-double-click
- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Split Cell Vertically
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Links mentioned in this podcast: > Adobe's comprehensive Creative Cloud FAQ > View your Adobe Creative Cloud portal> David's Cloud licensing problem/bug > Couple of our posts on Option/Alt-double click tips: Here and here > The trick about putting panels on the left side of the screen that David was trying to remember > Kris's ePubCrawler script (automates InDesign > Fixed Layout EPUB) is getting new features almost daily
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