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Important techniques
e previous sections have helped you learn your way around
Adobe InDesign CS. Now it’s time for some techniques that will get
you laying out pages faster and better than ever before. Whether you
need to create colors and gradients, format text automatically, anchor
an object inside a text ow, or just nd some tips for getting more
ecient with InDesign, you’ll nd the answers in this section.
Selection tool techniques
e Selection tool and the Direct
Selection tool are two of the most
important tools in InDesign, so it’s
helpful to know how to access them
quickly. Here are some tips:
 You can temporarily access the
Selection tool or Direct Selection
tool (whichever was most recently
selected) by pressing Command
(Mac OS) or Ctrl (Windows) when
any other tool is selected.
 When editing text with the Type
tool, you can switch to the Selec-
tion tool by pressing the Esc key.
 You can double-click a text frame
with the Selection tool or the
Direct Selection tool to switch to
the Type tool. If the text frame
contains text, the blinking text
insertion point is displayed where
you double-click.
 Double-click a graphic frame with
the Selection tool to select the
graphic inside the frame. Double-
click again to reselect the frame.
 You can select “through” an
object—selecting a frame or path
behind another object—by holding
down Command (Mac OS) or Ctrl
(Windows) while clicking with the
Selection tool.
 If you choose the Selection tool
and then click any object that’s
part of a group, the entire group
is selected. To select an individual
object that’s part of a group, dou-
ble-click the object with the Selec-
tion tool. en press Esc to select
the group again.
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