Adobe InDesign vertical & horizontal guides

Simultaneously draw out vertical & horizontal ruler guides

Hold down (MAC) Command or (PC) Control at the same time as dragging from the zero guides.

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IT Training

IT Training for writers

One to one customised computer training

We provide IT Training from Word to PhotoShop, Quark to InDesign, Acrobat to Excel, Illustrator to Freehand and more.

Or a mix and match - perhaps Quark and PhotoShop or InDesign and PhotoShop.

If the software of your choice isn’t featured above drop an email to bloggin@homechoice.co.uk to find out more about our DTP and IT Training.

Word 2007 cover page

Word 2007 built-in cover page

One of Word 2007’s newest features is ‘Cover Pages'.

With few clicks of the mouse you can apply a preformatted cover page into any Word document.

To do this:

Click on the Insert ribbon

In the Pages tab select ‘Cover Page’

In the Page gallery select a design to insert as the first page of the document(drawing tools ribbon lets you customise the overall page look)

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InDesign display settings

InDesign high quality display

When images are inserted into InDesign quite often they look jagged and out of focus but after editing and perfecting the image in PShop you know the appearance is wrong.

So why does it look so gross?

Because InDesign has its own default view setting.

To see the image as it really is:

Go to the ‘Object’ menu and scroll down to ‘Display Setting’

From the drop down list select ‘High Quality Display’

In 99.1% of cases this should fix the problem.

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InDesign to JPEG

Exporting an InDesign document to JPEG

The quickest way to convert an InDesign document to a JPEG (or other file format for that matter) is to go to:

File menu> Export

(or press (PC) Control + E (MAC) Command + E)

Name the document

Click on the downward facing arrow next to ‘Save as Type’

Choose ‘JPEG’ as the file extension

Hit the ‘Save’ button and JOB DONE

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