Podcast 178

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• Golden Oldie post: Find Where That Color’s Used
• Readers Nominate Most Ridiculous Features in InDesign
  • So many, so little time  (Story panel?)
  • How dare you call my fave feature ridiculous!
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Save Query

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Links mentioned in this podcast: > Anne-Marie’s post from 2006 on Find Where That Color’s Used
> Video demo of the Find Color feature in the Blatner Tools plug-in
> Readers comment on Ridiculous Features in InDesign with their nominees
> Transcript of our Podcast (episode 139) where we discuss the Floppy Disk icon in InDesign
> Where Saved Queries live