Stop Wasting Time in InDesign – Do These 7 Things

Designer and instructor Khara Plicanic shares seven quick hacks to supercharge your InDesign workflow in 2025: set your default font once and forget it, master text frame options for clean layouts, leverage PSD layer controls (plus a Photoshop‐launch shortcut), build grids in a flash with Gridify & Gap tools, explore AI-powered Generative Expand, make Adobe Bridge your go-to asset manager, and format entire documents with a single click using “Next Style.”

Whether you’re just starting out or you’ve been at this for years, these tricks will help you work faster, think more creatively, and spend less time wrestling with your layouts—so you can focus on design, not busywork.

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