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February 22, 2010 - 9:37 PM
You won't find em dashes, ellipses, and other common punctuation and special characters on your keyboard, it just won't happen. Within InDesign, you can insert these characters the long way using the Glyphs palette or from the menu, Type > Insert Special Character along with Right Click > Insert Special Character. Or you can memorize the InDesign-only keyboard shortcuts. Better yet save that bit of brain space for other things and instead use the standard keyboard shortcuts, which ... more...
Know The Space Available
February 15, 2010 - 10:50 AM
The status bar (the thin little bar that shows how many items are in your window and how much drive space you still have available) used to be at the top of every Finder window back in Mac OS 9. In earlier versions of Mac OS X (including Jaguar), the status bar was turned off by default, you had to turn it on, then you would find it at the top of your Finder window. In Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard you will find the status bar info at the bottom center of every window as l ... more...
Moving the Dock
February 09, 2010 - 5:05 PM
Okay, so you’re working in a program like Flash, Aperture or iMovie, which can take up every vertical inch of the screen, and when you go to adjust something near the bottom, the Dock keeps popping up, this recently kept happening during my Adobe Flash class. You can always "try" to hide the Dock, (which is how mine always is) or move the Dock to where it’s anchored on the left or right side of the screen. But what if you could move it temporarily to th ... more...
