You’ve found the buttons to apply bullets and/or numbering to your lists in InDesign. But after they’re applied, you may be frustrated trying to control the position, style, color and start number of your list.

In this quick, to-the-point session, we’ll add custom bullets, make a character style to apply a color, and control the bullet distance from the text and the frame. Then, we’ll number paragraphs, control what the number looks like, and we’ll make awesome paragraph styles to apply a number “1” to the first paragraph then “2, 3, etc.” to the rest of the list in a couple clicks.

Topics include:

• Tricks and essential tips for applying bullets and numbering to all your lists
• Understand the new feature “Space Between Paragraphs using Same Style”
• Create a character style to color a bullet or change a font
• Number your figures or graphics with consecutively numbered captions

Object styles tell a text frame, graphic frame, or path how to look and behave—stroke & fill, effects, size, position, etc. They can also format the content inside those frames—both text and pictures. Object styles can save you an enormous amount of time applying formatting—especially when you or the client makes a change. If you’re not using object styles now, you will after this session!

We’ll create an object style for a simple photo frame, then step it up to create an organizational chart, complete with paragraph styles and box sizes, making the frames easy to create and modify. We’ll explore cool size and positioning tricks, as well as how to apply effects and text wrap with our saved object styles.

Topics include:

• Making and applying object styles
• Why to use an object style for parent (master) page header graphics
• Applying effects and text wrap
• Making rollover buttons easily with object styles
• Resizing a photo inside a frame
• Applying text frame attributes and multiple paragraph styles with one click
• Using object styles to position anchored frames
• Cool tricks & shortcuts for creating and applying object styles

As an InDesign user, have you ever collaborated with content providers whose talents lay in areas other than text formatting? So, when you get their text content, it’s been manually formatted (for font size, bold, colors, etc.)? Are you spending hours reformatting text with paragraph and character styles, just so you can do your job? Is there a better way? YES! This session explores ways to automate this process – even if you need to maintain a live link to the text files!

You’ll learn how to fix your files through:

• Style mapping from Word
• Find/Change by format – works for any text, even from other InDesign files!
• Create and save custom queries
• Bonus – script options for even more automation!