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InDesign How-to Video: How to Create a Word Search Puzzle

Erica Gamet
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In this week’s InDesignSecrets video, Nigel French shows how to quickly create a word search puzzle in InDesign. Using an online generator for the text, he employs the Gridify feature, find/change, and keep options to craft the perfect puzzle.

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Erica Gamet
Erica Gamet has been involved in the graphics industry for over 35 years. She is a speaker, writer, trainer, and content creator focusing on Adobe InDesign, Apple Keynote, and varied production topics. She is a regular presenter at CreativePro Week, regular contributor to CreativePro Magazine, and has spoken at Canada’s ebookcraft, Adobe MAX, and Making Design in Oslo, Norway. Find Erica online at the CreativePro YouTube channel, CreativeLive.com and through her own YouTube channel. When she isn’t at her computer she’s probably daydreaming about travel or living in a Nordic noir landscape.

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  • Sally Ellis says:
    November 1, 2019 at 12:04 am

    Err …
    1. The end of the video was interrupted with someone talking over, seemingly closing down the presentation.
    2. When I did as instructed the text boxes did not do as shown.

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  • Nicole Donahue says:
    April 2, 2020 at 7:55 am

    How does he make the text grids without the Gutter? I see he uses a short cut, but when I go to do that it automatically adds them. I have also gone to Object/Text Frame Options and set it to 0. Then have gone to create the text grid and….to no avail.

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  • G says:
    April 3, 2020 at 4:10 pm

    I’m also having the same issue as Nicole Donahue. Please advise on how to fix this issue

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    • David Blatner says:
      April 3, 2020 at 5:01 pm

      Great point, Nicole and G! I see the problem… Nigel must have done one thing before starting the tip that he forgot to tell people:
      The amount of space between the text frames is managed in a weird way: by changing Layout > Margins and Columns. Choose that and set the Gutter field to zero, and click OK. THEN, when you gridify the text frame, there will be zero space between the frames.

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