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• Super Step and Repeat: Lets you duplicate an active item multiple times and specify
scale, rotation, and shading for the duplicates.
• Delete: Lets you delete a selected item and its contents.
• Lock: Lets you prevent accidental changes to items and their contents by locking its
position or content.
• Send & Bring (Mac OS X only): Lets you move an item one level backward in the page
or layer's stacking order, move an item to the back of the page or layer, move an item
to the front of the page or layer, or move an item one level forward in the page or
layer's stacking order.
• Send Backward (Windows only): Moves an item one level backward in the page or
layer's stacking order.
• Send to Back (Windows only): Moves an item to the back of the page or layer.
• Bring Forward (Windows only): Moves an item one level forward in the page or layer's
stacking order.
• Bring to Front (Windows only): Moves an item to the front of the page or layer.
• Group: Lets you combine two or more active items (including lines, boxes, text paths,
tables, and other groups) into a group.
• Ungroup: Performs an Ungroup on the currently selected grouped items.
• Ungroup All: Lets you break a group into its component items or groups.
• Space/Align: Lets you position the selected items evenly with regard to each other or
with regard to the page or spread.
• Constrain: Lets you restrict an item so that it cannot move beyond the boundaries of
the item to which it is constrained.
• Content: Lets you change the content type of an item.
• Shape: Lets you change the shape of an active item.
• Merge: Lets you merge selected items in a number of ways. (Mac OS X : Merge or Split
Paths)
• Split: Lets you split boxes that contain non-overlapping shapes, split boxes that contain
shapes within shapes, or split boxes that contain a border that crosses over itself (such
as a figure eight). (Mac OS X : Merge or Split Paths)
• Point/Segment Type: Lets you change the point or segment type of an item so you
can manipulate points, curve handles, and line segments.
• Convert Text To Boxes: Lets you convert the contents of a selected text box to a Bézier
box.
• Edit: Lets you modify item shape, runaround, or clipping path.
• Flip Shape: Lets you flip a Bézier shape in its frame either vertically or horizontally.
• Share: Lets you access sharing properties of an item and synchronize or re-use content
such as text, pictures, boxes, lines, and Composition Zones.
• Unsynchronize Size: Removes synchronization of a single instance of the item without
affecting other occurrences of that item (or the synchronization attributes).
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