Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts. Look in the product area for the Edit Menu > Quick Apply.

You jump into iTunes that often? :-D

AM

Select a word, press Command-6 (or Ctrl-6 on Windows) which selects the font name in the Control panel.

Tap the down arrow or up arrow key to move through the list of installed fonts. You should see your selected word get formatted with each font (in alpha order of all your installed fonts, not just most recent) as it becomes active with the arrow key.

Doesn’t work? Working here.

wondering if some of your jquery is unsupported by Apple maybe?

Glad it could help! Sorry I didn’t think of that post before you. ;-D

Technically, these are called InCopy stories, not assignments (assignments are like mini-layouts you can create in the Assignments panel, that hold collections of InCopy stories).

Anyway …

If you place the same InCopy story in multiple documents, and this InCopy story had a cross-ref, what do you *want* to happen to the cross-refs in the duplicate stories? (I’m not following you, I guess.)

InCopy story A has a cross-ref to chapter 2 in InDesign file A.
You place the same InCopy story in InDesign file B.

The cross-ref will report that it’s missing the destination in file B, even if file B has a chapter 2.

That’s because cross-refs are hard-wired to the name of the InDesign file they’re pointing to. The story in InDesign file B knows that it’s “lost its mama” and so reports her as missing.

If you update that story in layout B (you’d need to check it out) and point the x-ref to chapter 2 in layout B, and Save, then the story in layout A will report as being out of date, because you edited it. When you place the same InCopy story in multiple files, it’s like placing the same PSD or TIFF in multiple files. Edit one instance, all instances need updating.

So the answer is: You can’t do that, sorry. You can continue using InCopy stories (or use Edit > Place and Link in CS6 and CC), but you can’t use x-refs in them.

AM

I think you need to anchor the “end of the epub” into the main text flow. Otherwise ID exports the entire threaded story first as soon as it hits the first frame, then it exports floating images. So they end up at the end.

AM

Put your “text that appears in distinct boxes” (I’ll call these “sidebars” from now on) into their own text frames. Give them a fill color of what you want and a width of what you want.

Then *anchor* these sidebar text frames into the main text stream. Set a wrap around them if you want, if you want the main body copy to flow to the left or right of the sidebars.

When you export from CS6, the sidebars will be intact. Live text. I would recommend you use CS6’s Object > Text Frame Options > Autosize to set the frame to increase its height automatically. The width will be the same as in your ID file.

Morgane I know I covered this too in the course. ;-D Sorry can’t remember the exact video.