Have you thought about using your favorite search engine to search for something like “InDesign CS3 new features” and “InDesign CS4 new features”? That ought to give a lot of info (most of it useless no doubt).

Also Lynda.com might still have the training videos for CS3 and CS4, and you could try LayersMagazine.com and similar sites for videos and articles.

jonsmilburn said:

Roland, You Rock!

Works like a charm. Do you know of a good reference for GREP code?

Thanks! Jon

Good to hear it worked for you :)
I'm not good at GREP, but trial & error (using GREP in a Paragraph style to see if the code works before doing a find & replace) and help on these forums have gotten me able enough to use GREP more and more lately. I'm learning as I go right now, but I think I'll check out the ebook Jongware mentioned.

You could tell them to open files as a copy (so they can't overwrite your original CS4 files) and if they must save a file, to create a new folder labelled “CS5 only” or something to clearly differentiate between versions.

David, you could make it a series, going somewhat in-depth into what each options' strengths and weaknesses are, also in terms of re-using existing InDesign documents, and you'll surely make lots of folks happy. I know I'd be happy with clear information :)

You could use a GREP search for this, separating the three parts (“@@::>”, the text and “@@::<”) and turn on a style on the just the text, ignoring the start & stop codes.

Edit: I figured it out :)

Do a GREP search for: (@@::>)([w -]+.+)(@@::<)
Change to: $2
Create a character style for the italic text and, using the Change Format option, apply that style to the search result.

I never used Snippets before (hadn't found a use for them yet) but now I finally got one, thanks to Bob's mention of the Mini Bridge.

I'm working on a catalog which will have “chapter covers” that'll contain a grid of 6 frames that'll be filled with 5 images and one short introduction. I'd normally make a dummy page containing the empty frames (and whatever else I'd need on all of those pages) with their settings applied and then copy & paste from there when I needed the items.
Turns out, with CS5 you can't just drag from the Mini Bridge, but also to it, creating snippets so easily it's almost stupid not to use them.

Now I'm off to the Adobe site to request some Mini Bridge features for CS6…

Double-clicking on the black arrow above the Page 2 thumbnail, in the Pages panel, should also bring up the Numbering & Section Options dialog and setting it back to Automatic Page Numbering should make the document start at Page 1 again. I've never had problems with this, so I haven't a clue what could be wrong here if that doesn't work.

If you can't get it working, you could start a new document with the same settings and move your pages from the faulty document to the new one — by selecting the pages in the Pages panel and then going to the fly-out menu to choose Move Pages.