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• • October 18, 2010 at 5:06 am #57419
    Wireman

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    It appears that InDesign's default offset for “Wrap around object shape” is 10pt (3.528mm).

    For my purposes, I'd prefer 5pt (1.764mm). However, I also want “No text wrap” as the default. ie: I want wrap OFF, but when I turn it ON, I want the offset to be 5pt.

    It's easy to change the offset as both an application and document default. But only when text wrap is ON. When I turn it off and back on again, the offset returns to 10pt.

    Has anybody found a way of changing the default offset so it sticks regardless of the wrap setting?

  • October 20, 2010 at 10:19 am #57437
    Bob Levine

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    Why not set up an object style for the various text wrap choices you want? Then they'd be a click (or shortcut) away.

  • October 21, 2010 at 6:53 pm #57454
    Alan Gilbertson

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    The same behavior persists through CS5, if it's any comfort. Setting up object styles in a template file (or loading them from a document that already has them) would make it pretty simple. You'd select from the Object Style panel rather than the Wrap panel and Bob would be your uncle. (No offense, Bob!)

    There may also be a plug-in for that… :-)

  • October 26, 2010 at 3:23 pm #57501
    Wireman

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    Thank you.

    I should have said I had already gone down the object style route. But I'm a pernickety sort and, since 5pt is the overwhelmingly most often used wrap offset for the publications in my care, I'd like to save my users that one extra click/shortcut.

    The stubborn 10pt default is, I'd imagine, held in a preferences file somewhere. I've had a root about in all the usual places and can't find it.

    Just wondering if anyone had tracked it down.

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