Recorded live at the ID Conference! Intro; News; Audience Q&A; Live Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Convert Text ----- Details follow; or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, Quizzler answers, and to leave a comment. ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-052.mp3 (26.6 MB, 56:43 (!) minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) Recorded live at the 2007 InDesign Conference in New York City! Intro to the podcast, how it's usually created (when not in front of a live audience) News: This conference, New plug-ins for CS3, New InDesign user group in London, UK Who in the audience travelled the furthest to the conference? Q&A from the audience: Converting CS3 to CS2 and CS2 to CS1, Editing .inx files Live Quizzler: How many ways can you duplicate an object in InDesign? (answers below) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Convert to Text Links mentioned in the Podcast: Audacity open-source audio recording software Teacup Software (PatternMaker and BarcodeMaker plug-ins) Typefi (free AutoFit plug-in) London InDesign User Group Brazilian InDesign Blog PitStop Professional from Enfocus Software Adding the Notes plug-ins to InDesign CS2 Quizzler answers! From our genius studio audience: Cut/copy paste, Step and repeat, Alt/Option-drag, Cut/copy Paste in place, Cut/copy Paste into, Duplicate, Transform > Move (with Copy button), Duplicate a layer containing the object, Alt/Option-drag the object's layer proxy to a new layer, Export snippet and place it back in, Drag it into a Library and drag it back onto the layout, Use it in PatternMaker, Duplicate the page or spread containing the object, Use it on a Master page and then override it on the document page, Option/Alt-arrow key. From David: File > Export to .inx then copy and paste the call to the object elsewhere in the .inx file, save it and then open it in InDesign. From Anne-Marie: Paste object into first row of table, convert row to a Header row, then continue table into a new frame and the object gets duplicated in the second frame's Header row. Two more from David: Hold down the Option/Alt key when pressing Return/Enter after editing any transform field; or Copy object to clipboard, then use Find/Change text (Find: any character or string, Change: Clipboard contents). Wow! Who knew there were so many ways? Listen to the podcast to learn who won the contest. Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!