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PageMaker to InDesign CS2 conversion

By Cari Jansen | March 8, 2007

Believe it or not, I’m actually and Adobe Certified Instructor for PageMaker 7. The last time I taught PageMaker was about a year ago. Yep, there are still PageMaker users out there…

Whilst delivering some PageMaker to InDesign conversion training recently, I realised I hadn’t yet added the link to Adobe’s “Switching from Adobe PageMaker to Adobe InDesign CS2″ conversion guide to the Resources/InDesign section of my site. This guide provides a really good starting point for the PageMaker converter… And if you haven’t yet joined the rest of the converters, it will hopefully give you a little push across the threshold. :-)

So the Colors palette is turned to the Swatches Palette in InDesign… and Link Options turned to Link palette… and all of a sudden you have access to not only ‘Styles” but Paragraph (incl. nested), Character and Object styles… And the Crop tool is bundled into the Position tool etc.

Web Reference: Switching from Adobe PageMaker… (2005, Adobe)

Topics: indesign, pagemaker |

One Response to “PageMaker to InDesign CS2 conversion”

1. Charlie Comstock says:
   October 9th, 2008 at 12:39 pm

   Hi…..Much Thanks for the PageMaker conversion book…….Though I am struggling with InDesign….I am still in PageMaker and just turned 57….you would think an old dog can learn new tricks….

   I am in the middle of a catalog that for years has been in PM and I am not yet ready to convert into ID CS2….for the company I work for and they have a number of excel spreadsheets (product item numbers) I will be cutting and pasting into PM7. There are hundreds of them and I am trying to figure out how to simplify the formatting of these tables by creating STYLES of the various formats and yet I keep running into problems being able to create a NEW STYLE for a pasted set of data.

   Do you have a TIPS & TRICKS for oldies like me who for over 15 years never used styles to any great degree and am just now appreciating their power?

   I hope I don’t sound like I am begging…

   Wishing you much light and happiness…

   Charlie in Sequim Washington USA

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