For whatever reason you’ll probably have a few InDesign documents open at once – you might be copying elements from one to the other or… you just want to look like you’re busy :)
So rather than positioning your document windows and clicking on the one you want to be in – or worse – using the Window menu and then selecting your document, use: Alt-~: your new best-document-switching-keyboard-shortcut.
Say for example you’ve drawn a box but now you need to make it twice the width or height. You could do the math in your head or you could use InDesign’s built-in calculator functions.
While you still have the object selected, look in control panel that shows the width and height of your object. In either or both of those boxes add **2* to the end and InDesign will multiply the number currently there by 2 and thereby doubling the size of your box. This works when adding, subtracting and dividing as well. It’s not just for boxes but pretty much anything including type size, leading, spacing and column numbers.
