If you’re new around here, I have been creating a series of short tutorials to help with some of my frequently asked questions on using Adobe InDesign.
This week, you’ll learn how to work faster in InDesign using the Bookmarks tool and the Go To Page tool (formerly called the Jump tool).
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These 2 quick tricks will help you navigate around your document much more efficiently — one is called Bookmarks and one is called Go To Page, or I like to call it Jump (that used to be the name in older versions of InDesign).
This is great for large documents that have a lot of pages and sections, and it starts to waste a lot of time scrolling back and forth between pages. I'm going to show you how it works on the layout of my own book (Strong Girl, Brave Girl, available on Amazon, shameless plug). In this example, we'll create bookmarks based on my chapters.
Bookmarks work just like they sound – it’s a way to mark pages in your document so you can quickly jump back to them without scrolling.
To set them up, first you’ll need to open the Bookmarks pane which is under Window > Interactive > Bookmarks.
Then go to your document and double click on the page you’re wanting to bookmark.
In the Bookmarks window, click the New icon – and name the bookmark – Chapter 1.
Double click on the next page you want to bookmark, click New again and name it Chapter 2.
You can keep going with that, you get the idea, right?
Now you can quickly click any of these bookmarks to quickly navigate to that page in your doc without having to scroll and search for it.
Go To Page or Jump is similar, but it's just based on page numbers.
It's best to learn the shortcut, which is just Command + J if you're on a Mac, and Control + J if you're on a PC.
Type in the page number you want to jump to, click OK, and InDesign magically takes you there.
Super simple and a super time saver if you've got hundreds of pages to scroll through.
So that's it! Two quick ways to help you navigate through long files more efficiently.
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