It happened every once in a while: elements in my InDesign template would refuse to align to my 1” margin. Frames would instead snap to 0.097”, resisting my attempts to nudge them over to the 1” margin until I zoomed WAY IN and forced them over.
Today, I discovered why.
(For the InDesign nerds out there, I’d made an embarrassing mistake on my parent page. A footer element was aligned not to the proper 1” margin…but to that pesky 0.097” one. For whatever reason, the “snap to” feature sometimes opted for that margin, causing chaos on the actual document pages.)
And with that discovery, I felt two things. (Three if you count the momentary shame.)
Relief. A-ha! A pesky problem forever wiped from the face of the earth.
And then—
Irritation.
It wasn’t exaggeration on my part—I made this template years ago. I’m certain that a cumulative hour or two of my life was spent tweaking this one idiotic spacing mistake.
The painful irony is that I corrected this out of what I self-described as an anal tendency of mine—I obsess over margins and layout minutiae.
Except, apparently, when I don’t!
Taylor Coe 