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TIPS, TRICKS AND TOKENS OF WEEKLY WISDOM FROM YOUR SPORTY SAVANTS

FOOTBALL IS COMING

Dom, Harrison, Joseph and Dave are preparing training sessions for the remaining two weeks in August to help you brush up on football etiquette and skills. Be prepared to attend one of each type of session we will have, they are mandatory. If there is anything else you want refreshers on, reach out to your leads and seniors and we'll make it happen so we're ready to go come end of the month.

Keep track of our pubs' teams with our MASTER FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

Adaptable Amy's Tip

Heading into football season you must train yourself to accept when things go wrong. Handling chaos with a cool head will get you through much faster. Prepare your brain:

Content will be late.
There will be changes.
Editor's will be picky.

Just remember to take deep breaths, remain polite and concise, don't be afraid to ask for help and figure out the best solution to get it done efficiently by deadline.

SHOW RULERS (CTRL + R)

In most domains, this should come on the page automatically, but if it doesn't, you can always add it back by pressing CTRL + R, or in the BLOX menu it's under the "view" tab. These are imaginary lines that will not show up in print. I think of it as how you would use a straight-edge ruler if you were drawing.

This comes in handy especially on the jump page, where once you adjust 1 text box by -0.8p for the vertical rule, you can use these rules to give yourself another line to work off of and make the boxes the same size. Saves me a few seconds. Sometimes that's all you need.

Also comes in handy on the covers if you're moving assets from one side of the template to the other in order to keep the space in between the vertical rules consistent with the template.

SAVE SOME TIME ON E-EDITION CHECKS

Problems with attaching FLS jump pages?

Prior to starting the FLS section, quit Indesign and restart. Once Indesign has reopened, click on Blox Total CMS and then click change domain. Go down to Fredericksburg.com and click on it. Once that is done, open up your cover page through "Documents" under Blox, then click "Open from Blox CMS". Jump pages will attach normally once cover is opened this way.

JUMPIN
JOSEPH-FAS COMING SOON

If budgets are in for your sites but stories are not, prep your page as much as possible especially on a FRI/SAT.

Drop on page templates/modules/page labels.
Grab col sig snips/game bug snips and set them off to the side.
Adjust anything so it's not out of the margins.
Leave yourself any major notes on the pasteboard.

PAWKY PROLIC COMING SOON

Once budgets are in for your publications, sift through them and see if there is any shared cotnent you can expedite or mentally put a timestamp on for when modules are ready.

Don't camp in shared pages, but if you can't grab them right then post in the group they are available.

Content flow is most important.

ALSO: REQUEST BOX SCORES EARLY! The custom content folk that pull boxes are also building modules for you so it takes them time to get to boxes sometimes. If you put in for them early, you won't be in a pickle later.

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?

BREAKS ARE IMPORTANT

Map out your night early in your shift and determine the best time to take your break.
Stick to that time.
If something that can get you ahead goes ready when you get up to take your break, talk to a lead or post in the team channel that stuff is there to be worked on if anyone can get there before you return.
Rely on your team. In turn, be supportive of your teammates when you have time to spare.
It's best to avoid break between 9-10pm CST but it may be unavoidable.
If you aren't confident about your break time choice, talk to a lead or senior and ask for some advice.
Make time to eat and give your eyes a break from the screen so you can keep fresh and continue solid work.

TUC is our unicorn

TUC is and will continue to be in OneNote. Editors do not have access to RPM. Pages go to 2nd proof in RPM but you must keep up the document and check off once pages are sent!

E-Edition checks

Submit your soundoff. Check the designer website to see if one of your pubs needs an EE check or check the notes in Notion. Add to the notes any missing pages or class that doesn't move through.
We are now deleting duplicated shared modules from the O section of all daily publications.

Class Partials

Any element you physically place on the page goes to 2nd proof.
Don't forget to move the partial into the received/processed folder before placing and copy the file name link into the RPM notes

MARK EM SHARED

Pages sent straight to 2nd need to be marked shared, weather, or class partial to register for production.

ONE AT A TIME

Don't overclaim pages or your sections. Leave room to be helped, plate flow is more important than proving you can do it. Don't be ashamed to ask for help.

CLONE AND
MOVE SITES

Sites that can use clone and move within each group:

GROUP 1-wiscnews.com:
- BAR/PTG/BDM
GROUP 2- lacrossetribune.com:
- LAC WINO/LAC CHIP/LAC TRIB

If something doesn’t clone and move properly just follow the copy paste method below for the piece that does not move and please document the issue so we can look into it.

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