Datasheet

e original document contains dozens of
frames with a gray background.
Aer clicking Change All, the targeted
frames are converted.
e Object tab of the Find/Change dialog box
lets you search for and replace any kind of
object formaing. In this case, Find Object
Format is set to the background ll color, and
Change Object Format is set to apply a
dierent ll color and a 1-point stroke.
active document, and drag the mas-
ter-page icon from the Pages panel to
the other document window.
To copy all the master pages from
one document to another, open the
destination document as the active
document, choose Load Master
Pages from the Pages panel menu,
and then select the document that
contains the master pages.
Finding/changing object formaing
e Edit > Find/Change command
lets you search for and replace not
only text, but object formatting as
well. e Object tab in the Find/
Change dialog box oers two elds:
Find Object Format and Change
Object format. Click inside these
elds to edit them. For example,
you can search for all objects that
are lled with a yellow swatch and
replace that ll with a red-to-white
gradient swatch.
Rebuilding default preferences
InDesign stores information for
plug-ins, features, and the appli-
cation itself in its preference les,
such as the InDesign Defaults le.
A damaged preference le can cause
InDesign, or InDesign les, to
behave erratically. You can recreate
the preference les by holding down
Shi+Option+Command+Control
(Mac OS) or Shi+Alt+Ctrl (Win-
dows) when starting InDesign, and
then click Yes when asked if you want
to delete your preference les.
Rebuilding a document with 
Aer opening a QuarkXPress le
(see “Opening QuarkXPress les”
on page 17) or Adobe PageMaker®
le in InDesign, it’s oen helpful to
rebuild the le via the  format.
Choose File > Export, give the le
a name, choose InDesign Markup
() from the Format pop-up
menu, and click Export. en choose
File > Open to open the  le
you created. is rebuilds the le and
strips out any corruption that came
from the original document.
If you are not sure about the his-
tory of a le, hold down Command
(Mac OS) or Ctrl (Windows) and
choose About InDesign from the
InDesign menu (Mac OS) or the
Help menu (Windows). e Docu-
ment History section of the Adobe
InDesign Component Information
dialog box displays the background
of the current le.
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