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David BlatnerKeymasterIf you double-click the little square where the two rulers come together (upper-left corner of the document window) does it reset the 0,0 point back to top left?
July 9, 2015 at 12:03 pm in reply to: Restart numbering not working (lists created with paragraph styles) #76485
David BlatnerKeymasterNumbering is tricky. Here’s one “trick” that might help: https://creativepro.com/managing-tips-between-numbered-lists.php
Search the site for other numbering tutorials, too.
David BlatnerKeymasterI agree that Nested Styles are much easier to use.
https://creativepro.com/nested-versus-next.php
David BlatnerKeymasterAll documents (including new documents), or just one?
If it’s everything, maybe rebuilt preferences: https://creativepro.com/help-my-indesign-palette-is-empty.php
David BlatnerKeymasterYou’re talking about fixed layout epub? Yes, that is a known issue. Adobe does it that way to ensure that every word is where it should be.
July 6, 2015 at 9:02 pm in reply to: Techniques to Create a Weekly Circular with Reoccurring Items? #76432
David BlatnerKeymasterI’m glad you’ve found my videos useful.
That is a big project. Most people who do these kinds of things rely on database or catalog publishing tools. You can see my title on Data Merge and Data Publishing here:
https://www.lynda.com/InDesign-tutorials/InDesign-Insider-Training-Data-Merge-Database-Publishing/143323-2.html
Not sure if you can do what you want with data merge; you might need to use one of the higher-end 3rd party tools (see chapter 5 of that course).
David BlatnerKeymasterAh ha! Yes, that is the default and there is no way to change it. Paste in Place remembers the position on the spread not the page. So if you copy something from a left page, and move to the right page, then use paste in place, the object is pasted back on the left page.
David BlatnerKeymasterNormally Paste centers on the screen. Are you using Paste in Place instead?
David BlatnerKeymasterYou cannot do that with GREP (grep cannot see position on the page) but you can adjust that with Keep Lines Together in Keep Options:
https://creativepro.com/my-previous-gem.php
David BlatnerKeymasterM Lopusny: To select an entire column in the table, you can place the cursor in one cell and then choose Table > Select > Column. When the whole column is selected in InDesign, then you can apply a paragraph style and it will affect all the text in all those cells.
David BlatnerKeymaster[This reply is from M Lopusny. For strange technical reasons, it was deleted and I had to restore it… which means my name was associated with it.]
Hi Rivkah,
thank you very much for your promp reply.
It really helped.
But can you tell me, how did you cope with “multi-word” words, or expressions. I managed to get the 1-st word (I guess that that is the 1-st tab) styled according to my needs, but it only applied the style to the 1-st word.
Some words are expressions consisting of 4 words (in the excel table they were located in single colmn), if I use the style again, it styles the following words, but many of them are already translations (single-word translations), which I want to haves styled differently from the ENG words. Will I have to do the rest manually, or is there a way to select nad style only the multi-words (do I have to manually insert tabs? – I tried this, but could not get them right)?
David BlatnerKeymasterThere are many possibilities listed here:
https://creativepro.com/why-is-indesign-soooo-slow.phpIf it is just one document, you might also try exporting as IDML and opening that IDML file.
David BlatnerKeymasterLet’s say you have 2 checkboxes: A and B
You can turn on the Hidden Until Triggered checkbox for object B (in the Forms & Buttons panel)
And then apply a Show/Hide Button action to checkbox A which shows B.
That will make B appear when you click A.
However, you cannot make one button show and also hide another object, so if the person turns off Checkbox A, then B will not hide again.You could probably fake it using tricks here:
https://creativepro.com/showing-and-hiding-objects-in-interactive-pdf.php
and
https://creativepro.com/creating-a-two-function-button-for-interactive-pdf-or-swf.phpAlso, note that hide/show will probably not work on any iPad/iOS PDF reader. They cannot handle buttons like this.
David BlatnerKeymasterSo… did it work? And if so, which part worked? (The baseball game, the bike ride, or preferences?)
David BlatnerKeymasterNo, we don’t currently allow uploads. You can use a site such as imgur to upload images and just paste the url here.
You can certainly adjust the lines between columns and under cells in InDesign. See: https://creativepro.com/easier-table-fill-and-stroke-formatting.php
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