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Adjust Baseline shift
Alt + Shift + Up ArrowMove Up by Increment (set in Preferences)
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Alt + Shift + Down ArrowMove Down by Increment
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Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Up ArrowMove Up by Increment x 5
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Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Down ArrowMove Down by Increment x 5
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Adjust Kerning/Tracking & Word Spacing
Alt + Right ArrowIncrease by Increment (set in Preferences)
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Alt + Left ArrowDecrease by Increment
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Ctrl + Alt + Right ArrowIncrease by Increment x 5
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Ctrl + Alt + Left ArrowDecrease by Increment x 5
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Ctrl + Alt + Shift + \Increase between words
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Ctrl + Alt + Shift + BackspaceDecrease between words
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Ctrl + Alt + QClear all manual kerning, tracking, and word spacing
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Adjust Leading
Alt + Down ArrowIncrease by Increment (set in Preferences)
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Alt + Up ArrowDecrease by Increment
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Ctrl + Alt + Down ArrowIncrease by Increment x 5
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Ctrl + Alt + Up ArrowDecrease by Increment x 5
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Ctrl + Alt + Shift + ARevert to Auto Leading
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Find/Change
Ctrl + F1Insert selected text into Find What box
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Shift + F1Insert selected text into Find What box and then Find Next instance
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Shift + F2Find the next occurrence of Find What text
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Ctrl + Alt + FFind the next occurrence of Find What text
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Ctrl + F2Insert selected text into Change To box
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Ctrl + F3Replace selected text with Change To text
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Shift + F3Replace selected text with Change To text and Find Next
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Fitting Content & pictures
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + EFit Content Proportionally
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Ctrl + Alt + Shift + CFill Frame Proportionally
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Ctrl + Shift + ECenter Content
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Ctrl + Alt + CFit Frame to Content
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Flowing Text
Shift + ClickMulti-Page Autoflow (creates additional pages)
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Alt + ClickSemi-autoflow (keeps text in cursor so you can continue flowing)
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Shift + Alt + ClickFixed-Page Autoflow (does not create additional pages)
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Insert Break characters
EnterColumn Break (Enter on keypad)
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Shift + EnterFrame Break (Enter on keypad)
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Ctrl + EnterPage Break (Enter on keypad)
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Shift + EnterForced Line Break (or “soft return”)
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Insert Special characters
Ctrl + \Indent to Here
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Shift + TabRight Indent Tab
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Ctrl + Shift + -Discretionary Hyphen
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Ctrl + Alt + -Nonbreaking Hyphen
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Alt + 'Type in Single Straight Quote (Foot Mark)
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Alt + Shift + 'Type in Double Straight Quote (Inch Mark)
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Ctrl + Alt + Shift + NCurrent Page Number (Auto Page Numbering)
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Insert White space
Ctrl + Shift + MEm space
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Ctrl + Shift + NEn space
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Ctrl + Alt + XNonbreaking space
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Ctrl + Alt + Shift + MThin space
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Miscellaneous Good stuff
Ctrl + Alt + GSelect all Guides
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Ctrl + Alt + Shift + 'Toggle Typographer’s Quotes preference
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Moving text cursor
HomeMove cursor to beginning of line
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EndMove cursor to end of line
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Ctrl + Left ArrowMove cursor one word to the left
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Ctrl + Right ArrowMove cursor one word to the right
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Ctrl + Up ArrowMove cursor to Previous paragraph
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Ctrl + Down ArrowMove cursor to Next paragraph
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Navigating & scrolling through documents
Alt + Spacebar + DragScroll using Hand tool
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Ctrl + Shift + Page UpGo to the First Page
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Ctrl + Shift + Page DownGo to the Last Page
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Ctrl + JGo to Page (then type in page number)
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Ctrl + ~Switch between open Documents
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Nudging objects
Arrow KeysMove by Increment (set in Preferences)
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Shift + Arrow KeysMove by Increment x 10
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Ctrl + Shift + Arrow KeysMove by Increment x 1/10
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Selecting & working with text
EscLeave Text Frame and switch to Selection tool
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Shift + HomeSelect from cursor to beginning of line
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Shift + EndSelect from cursor to end of line
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Ctrl + Shift + EndSelect from cursor to end of story
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Ctrl + Shift + HomeSelect from cursor to beginning of story
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Double-clickSelect whole word
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Ctrl + Shift + \Select line
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Ctrl + Shift + Left ArrowSelect one word to the left
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Ctrl + Shift + Right ArrowSelect one word to the right
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Styling text & Working with Styles
Ctrl + Shift + BBold
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