Creating, resetting, applying, and deleting workspaces

Workspaces can be a useful time saver for organizing your InDesign desktop and more quickly accessing a wide range of InDesign features. They allow you to save the position of panels within the InDesign interface, as well as specify whether menu items are hidden or highlighted in a specific color.

Using workspaces allows you to have the panels and menu options that you need immediately available when you are working on specific types of documents. For example, you could have a wide range of interactive panels that are all ready to use when you are working on interactive documents, but then have different panels available when working on print documents, all by simply switching workspaces.

In this recipe, we will look at how you can create, reset, apply, and delete workspaces in InDesign.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, simply open InDesign on your system; there is no need to create a document at this stage, which...