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Item menu
The Item menu includes commands for controlling item attributes, positions, grouping,
sharing, and more.
• Modify (Windows only): Lets you access a comprehensive set of controls such as color,
shade, position, size, frame, runaround, clipping path, and more for an item.
• Frame (Windows only): Lets you specify frame attributes such as width, style, color,
and opacity for an item.
• Runaround (Windows only): Lets you specify whether text runs inside, outside, or
through a picture or its picture box.
• Clipping (Windows only): Lets you select the clipping type for a given item and control
its outset.
• Duplicate: Lets you create a copy of an item and its contents.
• Step and Repeat (Windows only): Lets you duplicate an active item multiple times and
in any position you specify.
• 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.
• Insert Inline Table: Lets you insert an inline table.
• 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.
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