Adobe InDesign Turbochargers: Work Faster and Smarter, Vol 1

If you're constantly changing Preferences, and options in the Panels you regularly use, you're wasting valuable time. See how you can set them up once, so every new file will have them.

This technique lets you build the foundation of a file in seconds, with only the click of a mouse.

Position a single frame that will become a grid, and use the transform panel to position and transform it.

Transform a single frame, and duplicate it to form the grid.

You'll be surprised at how quickly you can make a grid using this feature.

f you don't know Gridify, it will blow you away when you see it!

Perfectly aligning shapes that will be used to create a checkerboard.

Continuing with the created pattern, the checkerboard gets finished.

How these techniques apply to layouts.

One of the fastest ways to get graphics into your layout.

Note to PC Users: For this to work, you'll have to resize and position your Desktop and InDesign windows, so you can see both side-by-side.

Reveal update, relink, and edit linked graphics using the Links Panel.

Change the size of a graphic frame and its content with this group of menu commands.

Choose an element within a stack of objects, without using tools, or having to move any others and undo work that had already been done.