Adobe PhotoShop and Adobe InDesign tips to start the week off with:

Scroll down to find a number of Adobe tips for this week.

PhotoShop layers quick tip

Want to turn the viewable eye off loads of layers in Adobe PhotoShop.

Don't take ages to click through each one individually.

Either

Opt / Click to turn off all layers except the one being worked on
(turn them all back on with the same keystrokes)

Or

Click down on the mouse and just drag down through all the eyes.

Instant invisibility!

PhotoShop training information from bloggin@homechoice.co.uk

facing pages in InDesign

Remove the first / last orphan pages in InDesign.

This question was posed to me on a recent course on Adobe InDesign.

In short you could use the 'shuffle pages' command in InDesign's pages panel.

I would suggest a far easier option is to go to the File menu and use the InBooklet SE extension. Follow the instructions through to produce the document otherwise drop me a quick email to bloggin@homechoice.co.uk and I'll explain the 'Shuffle' plus 'Section breaks' options in Adobe InDesign.

Microsoft Word 2003 tip

Return to specific locations or last location on opening a Microsoft Word document......

When opening an edited document Microsoft Word can be a bit awkward because it insists on positioning the cursor at the beginning of the document. Something of a pain if you are working through a hundred plus pages of a novel.

Pressing Shift> F5 on opening the document gives you the opportunity to visit the last four edits used before the document was last closed.

Hitting the same keystrokes after opening the document takes you back to your very last editing point.

To find out about the 'Self publishing that book' course go to http://dtpdesigntraining.wordpress.com/self-publish-that-book/ or for tailored Microsoft Word training for writers contact bloggin@homechoice.co.uk

formatting text in Adobe InDesign

Nip over to my other blog at http://dtpdesigntraining.wordpress.com/ to see how to make perfect fractions in Adobe Indesign. Whilst there take a quick look at how just tweaking the kerning from Metrics to Optical can give your text a more professional and sleek appearance.
For information about how my training can give your documents that professional look drop me a line at bloggin@homechoice.co.uk

word 2007 word count

Writers remember you no longer need to go to the Tools menu to view your word count in Word 2007.

Just make sure to turn on the status bar at the bottom of the Word screen and you will be able to view either selected type or keep an ongoing count of text as it is typed.

online word processor

Writing entails a considerable amount of collaboration between writer and editor. An online word processor may help to lighten some of the load.

Create an account with zoho at http://writer.zoho.com and look into the benefits of online word processing.