I want to be able search for the cell icon in a table or an empty cell.

Sometimes I have to search for empty cells in tables and replace them with an en dash to show that they are intentionally empty.

When you have over 70 tables in each book it would be really helpful to be able to search for an empty cell.

And sometimes I need to search for characters that appear all over the document but I only want to find the ones in a cell, so being able to specify that icon in a search would be helpful too.

Thank you.

Rahul Sharma: Hello. Welcome to Adobe Technical Support.
Mirjam Pijning: Hi
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Rahul Sharma: As I can understand, you want to use PMS 2148C swatch color, is that correct ?
Mirjam Pijning: That is correct
Mirjam Pijning: But it is not available in the color book PMS Solid Coated
Rahul Sharma: I apologize for the inconvenience.
Rahul Sharma: I'll be glad to help you with your issue today.
Rahul Sharma: May I have your phone number to update your profile?
Mirjam Pijning: +31 6 46 23 03 62
Rahul Sharma: Thank you for sharing phone number.
Rahul Sharma: Which version of Illustrator and Indesign you are using ?
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Rahul Sharma: Thank you for the information.
Rahul Sharma: Please allow me a moment to search for the information.
Rahul Sharma: Thank you for standby.
Rahul Sharma: I would like to inform you that there are limited set of colors provided with Illustrator/Indesign, for more colors you will need to contact Pantone.
Mirjam Pijning: Which is pretty ridiculous, since Adobe claims to have THE software for graphic designers
Mirjam Pijning: Pantone cannot change your product, can they?
Rahul Sharma: It is not about changing software it is about colors. There are a number of colors available in Swatches Library but when need a specific Pantone color it might not be available because there is limited set of Pantone color available, you can create a new color swatch in Illustrator Indesign but the name color swatch is defined by Pantone so you will need to contact Pantone to get the exact color you are looking for.
Mirjam Pijning: I should think that making more colors available IS about changing software. Sad to hear you cannot help me.
Rahul Sharma: I apologize for the inconvenience.
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Rahul Sharma: We consider your suggestion in future releases.
Rahul Sharma: We will consider your suggestion in future releases.

This is something that’s brilliantly done in Muse, and not so complicate to add as a feature in inDesign, because everything is already there.

When you’re in Muse, in « design mode », you can right/ctrl click anywhere on any page to wether apply a Master or reach the applied master.

In Muse, the « plan mode » (which is inDesign’s pages panel) is usually in another window, complicate to reach, but nonetheless, in inDesign, that could help new users to get what a master page is.

Reason : most of the time, I don’t want to have my pages panel open, cause I can navigate via keyboard shortcuts. And if I have a lot of master modifications to apply, yes, I will open it, it’s great as it is now.

I had an idea which could be applied to all of the applications. Essentially the idea is for a 'smart' button.
Often when I'm diving in and out of the interface I miss clicking on a button, sometimes repeatedly. What if the button had a 'snap to' effect, this could be set with a variable through preferences. It could be set to 1 pixel or 100.
This could be toggled on and off utilising a short cut. So you could activate it for different methodologies. It could also be disabled completely.

It would allow for faster and smoother interfacing. However it's maximum would have to consider button overlap.