In this week’s InDesignSecrets video, Mike Rankin demonstrates how to navigate around InDesign’s various panels, all without taking your hands off the keyboard. Whether you need to jump to the Links panel or quickly try out different swatches, he shows how a few keyboard shortcuts will speed up the job!
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This article was last modified on May 6, 2020
This article was first published on August 7, 2019
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@Susan: One of the best ways to manage shortcuts for text sizes is using the Control panel. For example, you can press Command-6 to jump to the first field of the Control panel and then tab from one field to the next. Here’s more info on that:
https://indesignsecrets.com/control-panel-keyboard-shortcut.php
Thank you. That is exactly what I was looking for.
Are there key strokes to get to font type, size, leading etc? I was really hoping this clip would give me more than just navigation of the swatches panel.