tip of the day: indesign leading works like quarkXPress
here’s one for those quarkxpress nostalgics: indesign leading CAN work like in quarkXPress!
we all know that, by default, when you want to change the leading of a paragraph, you must highlight all the characters, from the first through the return character at the end.
and… when you’re used to simply clicking an insertion point anywhere in the paragraph, that’s a lot of work. (and i know i hate useless work! 
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to avoid this difficulty, you have to change leading to a paragraph attribute by going to type preferences (Ctrl + K).
In the options list, one is not checked: apply leading to entire paragraph.
When you check that box, you can apply leading to a paragraph with one click.
isn’t that nice?? yes it is 
Note that Adobe does not reconstruct its palettes to put the leading field with the paragraph attributes. it’s still to be found with the character attributes on the control palette.
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Excellent buzz, webee!
I was working in Quark for ten years before I started to use InDesign so anything like this is useful!
Similarly, in Preferences (Ctrl K), under the Composition tab, you can check Text Wrap Only Effects Text Beneath which makes Text Wrap operate like Runaround does in Quark. Text beneath an item with Text Wrap applied will flow around the object â?? move the text to front and it will flow over the object. Handy!
thanks rob,
nice to have on the blog
“see” you