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Using the Tools

• Scissors Tool Not my most used tool, but when you need it, it's handy. There's a little more to it than it looks, though.

• Hand Tool Stop using the scroll bars...takes too long. Stop using the hand tool...takes too long. Learn this shortcut, instead.

• Zoom Tool This video is more than the tool...it's about how NOT to use the tool. Use these handy shortcuts, instead.

Palettes

• Info Palette This is one of my most used features and I'm sharing it with you. Please don't miss this...thank me later.

• Object Styles Palette Style sheets for objects...there ya go. Simple to describe, but a very powerful and time saving feature.

• Separations Preview Palette Check for unwanted spot colors, CMYK Blacks, overprints and more with this Preview palette.

Creating a Document

• Snippets One Brand new to InDesign CS2, Snippets change the way we work...they're that revolutionary.

• Snippets Two Just as bad as episode one, but more of it.

• New Document Get off on the right foot by setting up your document right.

• Libraries If you copy/paste at least once a day, you'll want to migrate your habits to using a Library. Saves time, really.

• Don't Allow Pages to Shuffle Wanna make a spread but page one is always on the right. You can fix that.

• Tighter Border Control InDesign's default borders are different. Figure out Stroke Align and make them work for you.

• Don't Allow Pages to Shuffle Wanna make a spread but page one is always on the right. You can fix that.

• InDesign Does The Math Throw away the calculator and the abacus...InDesign does the math for you.

• Clicking Through Objects Are you trying to click on an object under an object under and object. Here's how.

• InDesign Interchange Format Take your CS2 documents back to CS1 and more with this feature.

• Illustrator Paths in InDesign Want to edit your Illustrator objects in InDesign as vector art? Here's the way.

• Integrating InDesign & Illustrator See how these two great programs can be used in tandem.

• Object Styles Style sheets for objects...there ya go. Simple to describe, but a very powerful and time saving feature.

• Quick Apply For the shortcut lover in you. Apply styles quickly with the Quick Apply feature...thus, the name.

• Automatic Page Numbering Stop numbering pages manually...let InDesign do it for you, and make changes, too.

• Point/Pica Size You can now change the number of points in an inch from PostScript to Traditional...and back again for more fun.

Type Stuff

• Optical Margin Alignment Make your type look better with better justification using Optical Margin Alignment.

• Optical Kerning Spend less time Kerning, and more time...uh...well...that's up to you.

• Drop Caps Although not limited to Caps, this feature can make your type look snazzier and it's easy, too.

• Hyphenation There's more to Hyphenation than just putting in...well...and hyphen. Watch and learn.

• Bold and Italic There aren't buttons for Stylized Type any more...and good thing. So how do you apply fake bold and ital now?

• Kerning and Tracking Let's make the type look good, folks. Tighten it up or loosen it up with Kerning and Tracking.

• Creating Outlines Want to put a photo in your type? Learn how and more.

• Dynamic Spelling Everyone hates the embarrassing tyops that can pop up. Now you can spell check as you go.

• Adjust Text Attributes When you scale type and want to see the actual size, or not, you'll want to understand this feature.

• Ignore Text Wrap Text Wrap is great, but what if you're putting type over a photo? Make it ignore the wrap.

• The Great Missing Font Mystery Do fonts mysteriously just show as missing, with no reason? This could be why.

• Adjust Space Automatically When Cutting and Pasting Words I think the name of this Preference pretty well covers it.

• Font Preview Thanks to the CS2 upgrade, you can have a WYSIWYG preview of your fonts from the drop down menu.

• What are Styles Format your type quicker than ever, plus add consistency and last-minute global editing and you've got a winner.

• Creating Styles Creating Paragraph and Character Styles is a cinch...you'll wonder why you didn't start using them sooner.

• Nested Styles If you want multiple formats within a paragraph, Character Styles alone doesn't cut it...check out Nested Styles.

Working with Frames

• Linking Text Frames, Pt. 1 Understanding the In Ports and the Out Ports.

• Linking Text Frames, Pt. 2 Linking and Unlinking Text Frames and other fun stuff.

• Linking Text Frames, Pt. 3 Linking Text in multi-page documents and creating Automatic Jump Heads...this is good stuff.

• Fill Frame Proportionately Make your photos fill the frame with the click of a button.

• Open and Close Paths Now you can close or open any path with the click of a button.

Output, Printing and Export

• Overprint If you aren't familiar with InDesign's Overprint settings and other tools to control them, you might get a surprise on press.

Creative Suite Stuff

• Adobe Swatch Exchange Share swatches across InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop for added speed and consistency.

Plug-ins and other Junk

• kuler.adobe.com Creating color swatches and saving as Adobe Swatch Exchange files just got easier.

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