

To instantly hide all layers except one, hold the Option/Alt key and click the eye icon of the layer you want to remain visible. While this can be done via the Find/Change dialog box, you can also do this via the following keyboard shortcut:Ĭommand+Option+Return (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+Enter (Windows) to switch between Forward (Find Next) and Backward (Find Previous) searches Turn Off Multiple Layers Simultaneously With the release of InDesign CC 2014 came the ability to reverse direction of Find/Change search. How to Toggle Find/Change Direction With Your Keyboard: We’ve curated some of our favorite InDesign shortcuts for you below. If you have a specific grid in mind, you can customize the grid on-the-fly by using the Shift-Command-and-drag method described above, but when you let go of the keys, you can use the Up and Down arrow keys to increase or decrease the number of columns, and the Left and Right arrow keys to increase or decrease the number of rows.Sometimes a simple change in the way you do things can save you minutes or hours in your production workflow. InDesign will place your images in a 3-by-3 grid by default, so if you have more than nine images loaded, you’ll have to drag-out more than one grid. Once the proportional grid of image frames appears, you can release the Shift and Command keys (keep the mouse button held down) and continue dragging the frame grid out to your desired size.

Once the Place Gun is loaded with your images, hold down the Shift and Command keys and start dragging the Place Gun. Invoke the Place dialog box (Command-D), and either Shift-click or Command-click to select the images you want to place. Instead, use the method I’ve already described above. Your images will be placed in cascading fashion at 100 percent-requiring a lot of work cropping and resizing. While this is certainly quick, it’s not exactly painless. InDesign offers you a few ways to quickly place many images at once, the easiest of which is to select the images you want to place in the Finder, and simply drag them into your InDesign document window. You don’t have to place images into your document one at a time.
