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Tip of the Week: A Shortcut for Accessing Grid Preferences

This InDesign tip on a shortcut for accessing grid preferences was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on March 15, 2018.

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Need to change the color, position, or other aspect of the baseline grid or document grid? Sure, you can access Grid preferences with menu items or keyboard shortcuts. But the absolute fastest way is to simply hold the Option or Alt key and click on either grid icon in the Control panel…

InDesign Control panel baseline grid icons

or the Paragraph panel…

InDesign Paragraph panel grid icons

and you’ll instantly be looking at Grid preferences.

InDesign Grid preferences

Editor in Chief of CreativePro. Instructor at LinkedIn Learning with courses on InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, GIMP, Inkscape, and Affinity Publisher. Co-author of The Photoshop Visual Quickstart Guide with Nigel French.
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