Director of Product Management for the Design Products. Hungry for more InDesign shortcuts every power user should know? You’ll love the InDesign Power Shortcuts session, presented by Michael Ninness, Adobe Sr. The character style’s formatting is removed and the text reverts to whatever the paragraph style says it should be. Now when you want to change a character-styled selection back to, just use the keyboard shortcut for your new “None” (or whatever you named it) style. Your new “None” style appears in the Character Styles panel just line any other style, along with its keyboard shortcut. Nothing! Perfect! Go ahead and add your shortcut in the appropriate field. InDesign picks up the fact that it’s based on the style, and that you have no local formatting in the selection, so the Character Style Options dialog box says this style will do nothing other than apply.
Now hold down the Option/Alt key and click the New Character Style button at the bottom of the Character Styles panel.
Page down shortcut indesign plus#
(Newbies: plus symbols mean the selection has locally-applied formatting.) Select some text that is already set to Character Style: and has no local overrides applied - that is, when the text is highlighted, no plus symbols appear next to the paragraph style that the text is formatted with. If you like to use custom keyboard shortcuts for applying paragraph and character styles, and wish you could create one for the default character style , this handy tip from Anne-Marie Concepción is for you! It’s extracted from her original post on. Get more tips for jumping around in long documents in Keith Gilbert’s article for InDesignSecrets: “ Quick Navigation in a Long Document.” Apply Character Style with a Keyboard Shortcut: Please note, this keyboard shortcut doesn’t work if you have a text insertion point active. If you’ve jumped to a page and you want to quickly return to where you were, use the shortcut: Command+PageUp (Mac) or Ctrl+PageUp (Windows). This will allow you to “Jump” to any page in your file. Use the “Go To Page” shortcut: Command+J (Mac) or Ctrl+J (Windows). Quickly Jump to Specific Pages in Long Documents Want to constrain transformation proportionally even when the chain button in the control panel is unselected (shows a broken chain)? Hold Command/Ctrl while you apply new width, height, or scale values. To instantly hide all layers except one, hold the Option/Alt key and click the eye icon of the layer you want to remain visible. While this can be done via the Find/Change dialog box, you can also do this via the following keyboard shortcut:Ĭommand+Option+Return (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+Enter (Windows) to switch between Forward (Find Next) and Backward (Find Previous) searches Turn Off Multiple Layers Simultaneously With the release of InDesign CC 2014 came the ability to reverse direction of Find/Change search. How to Toggle Find/Change Direction With Your Keyboard: We’ve curated some of our favorite InDesign shortcuts for you below. Sometimes a simple change in the way you do things can save you minutes or hours in your production workflow.