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Change the Default Font, Colors, and More Out of the box, InDesign CS5 uses Minion

Pro 12/14.4 pt as the default text style and includes swatches for process magenta, cyan, and

yellow and RGB red, green, and blue. These defaults are ﬁne if your average document uses

12/14.4 Minion Pro and only solid process or RGB colors. But, if the average document you

create requires another typeface, size, leading, other colors, or virtually any other option dif-

ferent from the defaults, change the defaults and save yourself some time.

Master It Think about the documents you create most often. What is the type style—

font family, font style, size, leading, and other formatting attributes—you use more than

any other? Make those your new defaults. Do the same with your swatches, eliminating

any colors you rarely use while adding those you use frequently.

Carry Your Personalized InDesign Work Environment in Your Pocket or on Your iPod

From freelancers brought into agency ofﬁces to assist with crunch time to students work-

ing in school labs, from round-the-clock production teams where different shifts use the

same equipment to those dedicated enough to bring work home, seldom do creatives work

solely on a single machine anymore. Creative and production personnel who switch comput-

ers waste a signiﬁcant portion of their time customizing the InDesign environment of each

computer on which they work even for a few minutes. To save time, nearly everything cus-

tomizable about the InDesign CS5 working environment is portable. Customize one copy of

InDesign, and carry your unique environment with you, making you instantly productive at

any workstation.

Master It After arranging your panels and customizing your keyboard shortcuts and

menus, it’s time to take your InDesign workspace with you. If you have a USB ﬂash drive,

an iPod, a smart phone, or even just a ﬂoppy disk handy, copy the ﬁles containing your

customized environment to the storage device. Now, if a second computer is available

with InDesign CS5 installed, install those ﬁles to that computer and set up InDesign CS5

your way.

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