

Choose Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts, then select Text and Tables from the Product Area menu and scroll to Toggle Typographer’s Quotes Preference. And if it keeps happening, consider changing that keyboard shortcut. If Use Typographer’s Quotes in the Type area of the Preferences dialog box is mysteriously unchecked, you almost certainly added Option (Mac) or Alt (Windows) to those commands and accidentally changed the way InDesign works for you. Chances are you went to use straight single or double quotes-as you would for indicating feet or inches-with the usual respective keyboard shortcuts: Command+’/Command+Shift+” (Mac) or Ctrl+’/Ctrl+Shift+” (Windows). InDesign offers a default keyboard shortcut that will change this single setting. But you might suddenly find that your quotes are no longer converting to curly. Now, this one is a little tricky because Use Typographer’s Quotes (Preferences > Type … ) is actually checked by default ( and for good reason). As for me, I like the retro soft gray, so I go with the lightest swatch. You can choose from a range of four gray swatches in the Appearance area-and, yes, you can make the default interface even darker if you really like that. Lighten upĭo you really like that Dark interface? You have a choice! Select Interface > Color Theme in the Preferences dialog box. So if you’ve never thought to change your preferences, press Command+K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Windows) to open the dialog box and follow along. If you find any of these quirks annoying or distracting, InDesign also lets you customize your work environment. And in recent years, it wants to act like it’s your best friend with chummy greetings when you fire it up to get some work done. If you’re using older versions, it’s pretty sure that you don’t want to take advantage of that gorgeous monitor you’re using. It thinks you measure things in picas and points. It’s pretty sure that your worldview is pretty Dark. InDesign makes some assumptions about you.
