

Please note, this keyboard shortcut doesn’t work if you have a text. If you’ve jumped to a page and you want to quickly return to where you were, use the shortcut: Command+PageUp (Mac) or Ctrl+PageUp (Windows). This will allow you to Jump to any page in your file. If you have a specific grid in mind, you can customize the grid on-the-fly by using the Shift-Command-and-drag method described above, but when you let go of the keys, you can use the Up and Down arrow keys to increase or decrease the number of columns, and the Left and Right arrow keys to increase or decrease the number of rows. Use the Go To Page shortcut: Command+J (Mac) or Ctrl+J (Windows). InDesign will place your images in a 3-by-3 grid by default, so if you have more than nine images loaded, you’ll have to drag-out more than one grid. Once the proportional grid of image frames appears, you can release the Shift and Command keys (keep the mouse button held down) and continue dragging the frame grid out to your desired size. Once the Place Gun is loaded with your images, hold down the Shift and Command keys and start dragging the Place Gun. Invoke the Place dialog box (Command-D), and either Shift-click or Command-click to select the images you want to place.

Instead, use the method I’ve already described above. Your images will be placed in cascading fashion at 100 percent-requiring a lot of work cropping and resizing. While this is certainly quick, it’s not exactly painless.

InDesign offers you a few ways to quickly place many images at once, the easiest of which is to select the images you want to place in the Finder, and simply drag them into your InDesign document window. You don’t have to place images into your document one at a time.
