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Runaround: Lets you specify whether text runs inside, outside, or through a picture or its
picture box.
Clipping: 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: 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.
Group: Lets you combine two or more active items (including lines, boxes, text paths,
tables, and other groups) into a group.
Ungroup: Lets you break a group into its component items or groups.
Constrain: Lets you restrict an item so that it cannot move beyond the boundaries of the
item to which it is constrained.
Lock: Lets you prevent accidental changes to items and their contents by locking its
position or content.
Merge: Lets you merge selected items in a number of ways.
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).
Send Backward (Windows only): Moves an item one level backward in the page or layer's
stacking order.
Send to Back: Moves an item to the back of the page or layer. On Mac OS, press Option
before choosing Send to Back to access the Send Backward command.
Bring Forward (Windows only): Moves an item one level forward in the page or layer's
stacking order.
Bring to Front: Moves an item to the front of the page or layer. On Mac OS, press Option
before choosing Bring to Front to access the Send Forward command.
Space/Align: Lets you position the selected items evenly with regard to each other or with
regard to the page or spread.
Shape: Lets you change the shape of an active item.
Content: Lets you change the content type of an item.
Edit: Lets you modify item shape, runaround, or clipping path.
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: Removes synchronization of a single instance of the item without affecting
other occurrences of that item (or the synchronization attributes).
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