Tips

 For a more intense type of sharpening, use Filter>Other>High Pass on a duplicate of the layer that you want to sharpen. Change the layer's Blend Mode to Overlay, Soft Light, or Hard light. Smaller High Pass settings emphasize tiny details in the image where you need to keep the tiny details (such as wrinkles) unsharpened. You can reduce the opacity of the sharpening layer and mask areas to keep them from sharpening.

To use a unit of measure other than the one displayed (for example, centimeters instead of inches), type in the amount and the proper abbreviation for your desired unit of measurement and InDesign converts it for you.

Read more: Switch Measurements Quickly

The Find/Change feature (Edit>Find/Change), which you can find in virtually all layout and word processing applications, is taken to a new level in InDesign. Hidden under the More Options button is a whole new world of precision editing that allows you to include type formatting and Styles in your Find and Change specifications.

But even better is that you can perform your Find/Change editing on all open documents at one time -- a great way to ensure consistency in an ad campaign or a series of brochures.

You're working on a newsletter and you have a long feature article that starts on page one, continues on an inside page, and continues again with the end of the story on the back page. The editor decides, with good reason, that the story should begin on page one and continue in its entirety on the back page. How do you remove the middle Frame in the three Linked Frames of this story? 

Easy, select the middle frame and delete it. The links between frames will not be broken when you delete a middle frame in a story. The copy will automatically flow to the next available frame in the story as if the middle frame never existed.