8 Tips & Tricks I Wish I Knew In Adobe InDesign (2025)

Here I will show you 8 Adobe InDesign Tips and Tricks that I wish I knew when I first started. These are great for Architecture & Design students just starting out with InDesign.

These tips and tricks will speedup your workflow and hopefully save you some time.

Feel free to drop a question in the comments and I'll do my best to help out!

0:00 - Intro
0:13 - Setting Up Your Workspace
1:38 - Making Image Grids
2:30 - Changing Display Quality
2:52 - Print Preview Mode
3:13 - Setting Image Frame Fitting Settings
3:46 - Dynamic Spell Check
4:26 - Place Holder Text
4:57 Paragraph Styles

[archigraph_]

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[TheWatchaWatchin]

Thank you for a awesome, clear and concise tutorial .

[Yehyajeda]

Just a comment to thank you for your great tutorial, your easy-to-understand and pleasent voice.

[StarWarsRumors]

Setting up workspaces like that will be life changing for me, have never seen it done like that before, that you (I'm the 66th liken this video)! Now we can save and export our custom workspaces.

[dk-bwgk]

That workspace is very close to the Essentials Classic present, which is my go-to. I didn't know about the frame-arrows trick. I'll have to remember that one.

[aishas]

Hey! Your videos are really helpful! Please can you make a tutorial on designing an architectural report in Indesign from scratch! It’ll help a lot

[archigraph_]

Let me know any questions below and I will get back to you!
Feel free to also let me know anything else you would like me to cover and I will add it to my to do list :)

[findthetruth]

Please show us the easiest way on how to put charts place in InDesign. Many thanks in advance

[myronachtman]

Nice tips... NOTE: When you mentioned "Kerning, " you should have said "Tracking."