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CHAPTER 1 Customizing

whereas creating a publication that will be distributed only on the client’s website as a PDF does

need Hyperlinks and probably doesn’t need the Separations Preview and Trap Presets panels. By

employing multiple, project-speciﬁc workspaces, you can further reduce panel clutter by limiting

the application to only what the one type of project needs, without the chore of having to manu-

ally open, close, and arrange panels every time you switch to a different task or project.

InDesign in Your Pocket

Or, InDesign on a Stick—a USB stick/thumbnail drive/ﬂash drive. Although you can ﬁt InDesign

and all its component plug-ins on most portable USB ﬂash drives, it won’t run from there. (Well,

I’m sure somebody could get it to run, but I think that would violate the EULA.) What I mean

by the title of this section is taking your InDesign in your pocket, your unique conﬁguration

and work habits, and sitting down at any workstation and, in 30 seconds or less, making any

copy of InDesign CS5 work exactly like InDesign on your main computer—complete with panel

arrangements, keyboard shortcuts, menus, and even your own autocorrect settings and Find/

Change queries.

It’s exceedingly simple, really. First, make sure you’ve created a new keyboard shortcut set,

a new set of menus, and a new workspace. Create and save them in their respective manners.

Nothing here is permanent, so please don’t feel pressured to create the perfect workspace or cus-

tomize everything right now. Just do something simple for each, save the set, and close InDesign.

Now, open a Finder or Explorer window and navigate to the following InDesign folder. Note

that, if you can’t get to the folder, if it’s marked as protected or hidden, or you just can’t see it,

check out the sidebar “Are Your Files Hidden?”

Mac: [your user name]/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version 7.0/en_US/

Windows 7/Vista: Users\[your user name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\InDesign\InDesign

CS5\Version 7.0\en_US\

Windows XP/2000: Documents and Settings\[your user name]\Application Data\

Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS5\Version 7.0\en_US\

Are Your Files Hidden or Restricted?

By default, Windows (all recent versions) hide certain folders and ﬁles to protect them. Unless

you (or your IT department) have speciﬁcally told the operating system to show those ﬁles to you,

you may not be able to interact with them. First, you’ll need to unprotect and/or unhide these

ﬁles. Here’s how.

1 . On the Start menu, select Control Panel, which will either open a new Explorer window

showing your Control Panel folder or list the contents of the Control Panel folder directly in

a submenu on the Start menu. In either case, choose Folder Options, which opens the Folder

Options dialog box.

2 . Go to the View tab.

3 . In the Advanced Settings section, select the Show Hidden Files and Folders radio button under

Hidden Files and Folders. To also see ﬁle extensions, deselect the check box beside Hide Extensions

for Known File Types. Click OK. You may need to restart Windows for the changes to take effect.

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