That’s just silly and unproductive.

Simply hit F6 or open the InDesign Info Panel manually by visiting the menubar Window>Info. Now all you need to do is click in any text box with the Text Tool active and take a look at the Info Panel.

As you can see in the image above, you’ll be shown the character, word, line, and paragraph count in the selected text box.  In the image, I have a text box selected that contains 882 characters. The Info Panel tells me that I have 629 of those characters showing, and 253 more that are hidden because I reduced the size of the text box and the text is overset. If the text box were not reduced and all the characters showing, the Info Panel would simply say 882 characters.

Here’s a great way to fix images that bleed inside InDesign… no switching to Photoshop or fiddly image resizing is necessary!

I won’t go into a whole lot of detail, but take a look at this (annoyingly) silent video…

… then download the free script.

You’re welcome.

I’m not sure this is going to be useful to anyone but the most green of designers. No experienced designer is going to be happy with the results, no matter how intelligently they are.

Still, a nice addition if it gets you half-way there.

You can expand the pasteboard space by hitting Command + K to open the Preferences dialog and select the Guides & Pasteboard tab from the list. Simply change the Minimum Vertical & Horizontal Margin amounts to the size you want your pasteboard to be and click OK.

Now you have all the elbow room you need!

To quickly switch to the text tool in Adobe InDesign when you are working with the Select or Direct Select tools (the arrow tools), simply double click the text box.

As an added bonus, the cursor will appear wherever you double clicked in the text box. Click three times in rapid succession and it will select the word directly under where your cursor triple-clicked.

Of course, if you just want to switch to the text tool to create a new Text Frame when you have an arrow tool active, just hit the T key.

A quick way to access them is to hit Command + B with the frame selected. But a quicker way is to Option + Double Click with either of the Selection tools active.

Adobe has announced that they’re going to do what they want to do, and you’re going to like it, or else…

The next major release of Creative Cloud will not support macOS 10.11 (El Capitan) or lower in order to take advantage of the latest OS advancements in modern operating system versions. The word “support” is important. That means that while they may or may not actually run on those OS versions, Adobe will simply not care if they do or don’t, nor will they help you if they don’t.

I find their reasoning believable, yet obnoxious at the same time considering Full Screen mode in macOS has been around since 2010 with the release of macOS 10.7 (Lion) and they still haven’t implemented the ability to use it with any of their apps.

But that’s not all. Unofficially, you can expect a price increase for your Adobe CC subscription in the near future. I have no evidence supporting that, but I know it’s going to happen.

Pull a guide out of the rulers to the edge of a selected object and watch it snap into place.

It’s a simple paragraph style. As you can see in the image above, it’s just a matter of a few simple adjustments. Just go to your Paragraph Style Options and click on the Bullets and Numbering tab in the left column. At the bottom, adjust the Bullet or Number Options to your liking.