Reply To: Best way to "dumb down" InDesign?

Hi Joel! A pleasure to see you here. One option is to avoid InDesign entirely and give them InCopy (see https://incopysecrets.com).

I’m not sure there are any “best practices” for this beyond:

• Open just the panels you want visible
• Use Edit > Menus to hide the menu items you don’t want visible
• Then save the Workspace and show them how they can Reset back to it if things get messy
• If they’re mostly editorial folks, teach them Edit > Edit in Story Editor (and use the Story Editor Preferences to choose a better font, cursor, and layout, so it’s easier to read in Story Editor)