Here’s another thing I looked up for the dozenth time that I thought you, too, might want not to have to look up. I use picas as the default unit in InDesign because I find them far more useful than inches when working with mostly type. But I wanted to tell someone how big an image needed to be, and I wanted to do it in inches, and math is hard!, soooo . . . I knew there was some way to get the units of measurement shown in the control palette to change on the fly, but I couldn’t remember the keyboard command.
The answer, per InDesign Secrets, is CMD+OPT+SHIFT+U on the Mac, or CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+U on Windows. Keep hitting that combo until the palette cycles through to the unit you want.
While trying to find this shortcut, I also came across a CreativePro article, one of whose tips I’d never seen before: InDesign How-To: Six Small Things, Six Big Results. The third, “Sneaky access to options,” was new to me and seems like it’d be useful.
Bonus non-InDesign discovery: Palette Generator: Automagically create a harmonious color palette from a photograph (via The Paper Pony).
Have you looked anything up lately? Do tell.
Photo: Inchworm on the rim of my cup… by seahorse_ / melanie; was licensed CC-by-nc 2.0 on 7/13/07, but the photographer has subsequently changed the license to copyright.