: InDesign: display delta x/y values (instead of document coordinates) when moving an object I know that Illustrator and Photoshop both do a great job of showing you how far you have moved an

@Murphy569

As far as I know it's not a built-in option. (But I agree that it's yet another example of these "Suite" programs behaving infinitesimally different. Perhaps it should be an option -- and then the same for all three programs!)

Did you know you can drag the ruler zero point to any place? If you drag it to the starting point of from where you want to drag, you can see "live" over what distance you drag the object. A simple double-click on the horizontal and vertical intersection of the rules resets the zero point to its proper position.

Instead of dragging (which is touchy at best), you can also use the "Position" indicators in the Control Bar. To move something by an exact delta, just type it in with a plus or minus after the current value; for example, if an x position is shown as "25.34 mm", adding "+ 5" at the end will move your object horizontally by exactly 5 mm.

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