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Here's how to Create interactive buttons in Adobe InDesign.

i. Here are some useful tips for creating items in Adobe InDesign:

- Use paragraph and character styles - Set up and apply styles for consistent formatting of text items like headings, captions, body text, etc. Makes edits much easier.

- Import text from Word docs - You can directly import Word documents and preserve fonts, sizes, colors, etc. Useful for bringing in large amounts of text.

- Use snippets for repeat elements - Create snippets for items you reuse like logos, legal text, bio information. Easily drag them onto pages.

- Take advantage of master pages - Use master pages to style page numbering, headers, footers, etc. Propagates changes across all pages.

- Create object styles - Set up object styles to save formatting for boxes, images and shapes for quick reuse. Control positioning, colors, etc.

- Use templates as starting points - Build templates with your common items, styles and layouts already in place to use for new documents.

- Maintain a shared Library - Store commonly used items like images, logos, icons in a shared Library panel for quick access.

- Use grids and guides - Set up layout grids and use guides to precisely place and align items on pages. Snap to Grid is very helpful.

- Group related items - Group items like images and text boxes to more easily move them as one object.

- Use the Content Collector - Place repetitively used items in the Content Collector to instantly populate templates.