Using Paper Color to Help Distinguish Various Files

I’m currently working on a complex manual regarding a marine electrical system. This particular manual has many similarities to three other manuals I have done in the past, but it’s not exactly like any one of them. When I’m working on a project like this, I find it helpful to keep several of the previous documents open for reference. But since all the documents look so much alike, there have been times when I’ve lost track of which one was my “working” document, and I ended up editing the wrong one. But today I came up with a way to distinguish between the working document and the reference documents.

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Create a Herringbone Brick Pattern Using InDesign and Illustrator

This video will teach you how to:

• Make InDesign table cells with exact width and height.
• Locate Illustrator's plethora of built-in swatch libraries.
• Delete the default swatches built into every Illustrator document, and replace them with your own.
• Export the swatches as an ASE file.
• Load the swatches into InDesign.
• Colorize table cells and strokes by dragging and dropping by the swatch panel.
• Create an Illustrator pattern swatch.