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==Best Preferences== (Thanks Kelly McCathran)
Prefs > Units & Increments
INCHES (90% of North America is on inches, why are the defaults still in Picas & Points?) Size & leading to 1 Baseline shift to 1 Kerning Tracking to 10
Prefs > Display Performance
Vector Graphics > High Resolution Greeking to 0
Prefs > Type > Smart Text Reflow **(CS4 & CS5)
Turn OFF Limit to Master Text Frames Turn ON Delete Empty Pages
Edit > Spelling > Dynamic Spelling (It's crazy how many people still don't know this is there)
View > Extras > Show Text Threads
Basic Paragraph
Optical (not Metric) Kerning Hyphenation 8 letter words 3 before hyphen 3 after hyphen UN-CHECK all the bottom boxes
Pages Panel Menu > Panel Options
Turn OFF Show Vertically for Pages (not Masters, again a silly option that isn't set best by default)
In a New doc always make Bleed .125"