InDesign Masterclass: Text Techniques: 150+ Step-by-Step InDesign Recipes

Stop wasting hours on repetitive InDesign tasks—master the shortcuts pros use!

How much time do you lose every week recreating the same text effects? Struggling to remember how you achieved that perfect look last time? Fighting with tables that should take minutes, not hours?

InDesign Masterclass: Text Techniques puts an end to the endless trial-and-error. With 150+ proven, step-by-step recipes, you’ll have every text solution at your fingertips—from simple styling tricks to jaw-dropping visual effects that make clients say “How did you DO that?”

This is your secret weapon for InDesign mastery.

While other designers are still fumbling through menus and forums, you’ll be deploying professional techniques with confidence. Imagine completing projects in half the time, with results that look like they took twice as long. That’s the power of knowing the right technique for every situation.

Every recipe is a shortcut to professional results:

• Text Effects That Wow: Highlighter effects, cast shadows, redacted text, sci-fi displays, and reversed titles that grab attention
• Automation Magic: GREP styles that format acronyms, brand names, and references automatically—set once, use forever
• Table Mastery: One-click formatting, gradient fills, rounded corners, and complex layouts that make data beautiful
• Typography Perfection: Hanging drop caps, alternating line formatting, perfect tab alignment, and readability enhancements
• Professional Workflows: Conditional text, automatic numbering, custom defaults, and time-saving tricks used by elite designers

From Pariah Burke—the InDesign expert whose techniques are trusted by Fortune 500 companies and design agencies worldwide. These aren’t theoretical concepts—they’re battle-tested solutions from real-world projects.

Your competition is already using these techniques. Every time you manually format what could be automated, every project that takes longer than it should, every client who goes elsewhere because your work doesn’t have that “professional polish”—that’s opportunity walking out the door.

The perfect companion to InDesign Masterclass: Type & Tables—together, they form the complete toolkit for InDesign text mastery.

Transform your InDesign workflow today. Tomorrow, you could be the designer who makes the impossible look effortless, who delivers stunning results ahead of deadline, who commands premium rates because clients know you’re worth it.

Ready to stop struggling and start mastering? Your future self will thank you for making this investment today.

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Some of the InDesign Text Techniques Inside

• Take a Highlighter (Effect) to Your Text
• Round End Text Highlighter
• Better Hyperlink Underlining
• Differentiate Kinds of Hyperlinks
• Overscoring
• Redacted Text Effects–6 Different Techniques!
• Reversed, or Negative, Titles
• Dyslexic-Friendly, Readability-Enhancing Paragraph Highlighting
• Cast Shadows
• Dynamic Text Cast Shadows
• Vertical Side Heads
• Add Numbers, Symbols, and Images Before Headings
• Add Rules Above and Below Headings
• Multi-Colored Rules
• Scalloped Box Paragraph
• File Tab Headings
• Sci-Fi Code Display
• Hanging Heads
• Hanging Drop Caps
• Alternating Line Formatting
• Locate Used Paragraph Styles
• Automatically Format Figure and Table References
• (Subtly) Callout Out a Brand Name Automatically
• Call Out Many Names & Terms
• Automatically Small Cap Acronyms & Abbreviations
• GREP Styling Words That May Have Diacritics
• Removing Runts and Short Ends of Paragraphs with GREP
• Equal Width Spacing without Tabs
• Faded Tab Leaders
• Perfect Right-Aligned Tabs without Tabs
• Format an Entire Table in One Click
• Different Header Row(s) on the First Page of a Table
• Start Alternating Row Fills with an Empty Fill
• Gradient-Filled Table
• Rounded Corner Table Cells
• Complex Non-Rectangular Tables
• Modifying InDesign Defaults
• Make Italic, Bold, and More Character Styles Automatically Available in Every New Document
• InDesign in Your Pocket
• See and Count How Many Lines and Words are Overset
• Prevent Hyphenation of Name
• Making User Dictionaries Travel with Documents
• Fix Hyphenation on All Compound Words
• Automatically Restart Numbered Lists
• Conditional Images and Objects
• Fill Type with Imagery
• Two-Click Formatting of an Entire Document