Michael

Sorry for not seeing your post earlier.

I don’t have any links to work I have done. I work for a typesetting company, and not a freelancer. Minion Pro should have the open-type fractions you need, so I don’t think you’d need Myriad. If not, Adobe Gramond as them all.

So far as printing, I don’t know anything about that stuff. The folks in the front office deal with that. All I do is page the books (and design some things and fix designer’s files).

Dwayne

@Jo—Don’t get me wrong–I personally hate how InDesign works with Word. That’s why I have macros that capture all the local formatting in a Word file. Then I save it a .txt file and flow into InDesign that way.

That sure was a lot of nicknames :)

Jedidah:

You would check the leading and starting point for your baseline grid in the ID preferences.

To align to baseline grid, that would be in your paragraph style sheet.

I think the choice you make so far as the guides depends upon what you need the guides for. I personally don’t use many guides, so I never use that guides feature to set them up. If I need guides I just drag them to where I want them.

InDesign is probably flagged as a spelling error because it’s not recognized in dictionaries as a real word, and technically it isn’t.

ID definitely can get confused with Word files. That’s why I run macros to capture any local formatting and then save as a plain text file and import that way.

So far as just clicking in a paragraph and selecting the paragraph style: ID is doing what you asked. If you place a word file into InDesign and tell it to bring in the local formatting from the Word file, then that’s what it does.

And if character styles were used in the Word file, those will come through as well.

One way to clear overrides is to hold down the option key and then click the paragraph style sheet. That will clear all local formatting, however.

And—if there are character styles applied, you’d have to select the entire paragraph and click “none” as you did.

Off topic—I have a good friend who’s name is Jo. People always ask her what her real name is (i.e., is Jo an abbreviation of Joanne or Josephine or something). She always says “No. My name is Jo. Just Jo.” That’s why her nickname is “Just Jo.”

Go to your paragraph style and go to the keep options and select next column.

If you have a separate paragraph style sheet for it, you can change the style sheet. If not, select the text and go to the paragraphs styles palette and do the same thing manually.

Or if you don’t want to mess with that, if you have an extended keyboard, you can use the “enter” key on the calculator to tell the text to go to the next column.

EDIT: Just saw Colleen’s post. But I’ll leave mine here. I wasn’t sure if it was about overset or text linking.

The client doesn’t want us to use the book feature. One document only.

I’ll be totally honest–I have never used the book feature, TOC feature, or cross-reference feature.

One reason being that I work on long documents, and our clients insist on one single file with all the text threaded.

The books range from 400 to 1,200 pages. And they insist on one single file.

TOC numbers and cross-reference numbers are filled in by the proof reader or the editor.

Another reason for me (and the company) doing things the old-fashioned way is because books need to be done at rock bottom prices, and deadlines. It’s not uncommon for us to have to get first pass done in two days (sometimes less). And for the TOC, I just usually print out the page, fill in then numbers in pencil by hand, and then type them in.

Again, because of how much that can be charged per page and book, we don’t have the luxury of using many features that InDesign offers, such as tagging cross reference things, setting up the TOC to put in the numbers automatically, indexing, etc.

Any extra time I spend on a job means less profit. I am totally serious when I say that every minute counts.

Since you are new to InDesign, I’d suggest that you do one long document. It could take you a lot of time to figure out many of the features InDesign offers otherwise.

As an aside–I remember my first InDesign job. This was back when InDesign was new (I think I had ID 1.5). Anyway–one of our clients asked if we used InDesign. Of course, our sales folks said yes–to say otherwise would have been stupid. But–I had been playing with it and teaching myself, so I was somewhat familiar. And–other vendors said “no,” which was not too smart.

The job was supposed to be a “simple” job.

Well–it was filled with about 200 images, and was actually very complicated. It was something I could have done in Quark with no problem as I was great with Quark. But it had to be InDesign.

I got the job done by the deadline (back then our deadlines were a week or two), and then every InDesign job they had after that came to us.

I ended up teaching my coworkers how to use InDesign before we had a pro come up to train us further.

Sorry for rambling. I do think since you are new to InDesign that you take it slow and don’t overwhelm yourself. Do a long document.