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Ever gotten deep into building out a gradient in Illustrator and then wanted to save the gradient colors as swatches? You’re not going to believe how easy it is!

With your artwork selected and the gradient active, all you need to do is click the New Color Group button at the bottom of the Swatches panel. Voilà, all your gradient colors are added just like that!

Click the New Color Group button at the bottom of the Swatches panel to capture all the colors in the active gradient as swatches.

In the New Color Group dialog, name your color group and choose the Create From Selected Artwork radio button. Click OK to create a color group from the active gradient.

The new color group with all the gradient colors appears at the bottom of the Swatches panel.

Not that it ever made that much sense but InDesign cross-references have always shared the Hyperlinks panel. All of a sudden, open up the Hyperlinks panel and the cross-references (and all reference to them) are gone. Poof. No forwarding address. Well, if this turn of events has left you somewhat disoriented, not to worry…cross-references haven’t disappeared; they have instead earned a panel of their very own. There are two ways you can access the new Cross-References panel—like other panels, you can find it under the Window menu, hiding under the Type & Tables category.

Locate the new InDesign Cross-References panel in the Type & Tables category under the Window menu.

The other way to access the Cross-References panel is, with your Type tool cursor active in a text field, go to Type > Hyperlinks & Cross-References. Choosing Insert Cross-Reference will open up the Cross-References panel.

InDesign Cross-References Panel