Perfect Your Pages Panel in Adobe InDesign

Descriptive prefixes and color labels can make it a lot easier to tell pages apart in a long document. By default, InDesign displays thumbnail images of each page in the Pages panel. But that's not always the most useful option for telling one page from another, especially in a document with a lot of pages that share a similar design.

You can turn off thumbnails in the Panel Options dialog box inside the Pages panel fly out menu. When thumbnails are turned off, each document page is shown with its master page prefix in the center. You can put up to four characters here, so don't be shy. Descriptive prefixes make it easier to navigate a long InDesign document.

Draw a Curve in InDesign

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to use InDesign's ability to create type on a curve, and flow that type from one curve to another. Along the way, you'll learn a slick technique for step and repeat and how to apply gradients to text. This technique will work in InDesign CS or later. This technique would also will work in Illustrator, with minor modifications.

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