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Click the Merge Layers button in the Layers palette. The Merge Layers dialog box
displays.
3
Choose a target layer from the Choose Destination Layer drop-down menu.
4
Click OK. The visual indicators for the merged items display the color of the layer to which
you merged, and the layers that you selected for merging are deleted.
Layers cannot be merged when one of the selected layers is locked.
Items may be merged from the Default layer, but the Default layer is never deleted by a
merge operation.
Locking items on layers
To avoid inadvertently making changes to items on a layer, you can use the Layers palette
to lock the entire layer.
Layer locking is independent from item locking. Items locked using Item > Lock can still
be selected and edited; items on a locked layer cannot be selected at all. If you lock an
item on a layer using Item > Lock, and then lock and unlock the layer, the item retains
the item lock even after the layer is unlocked.
The Lock column in the Layers palette controls the locking of layers. To lock layers,
use one of the following methods:
• To lock or unlock a layer, click in the Lock column to the left of the layer's name. You
can also double-click the layer to display its Attributes dialog box, check or uncheck
Locked, and then click OK.
• To lock all but one layer, press Command/Ctrl and click in the Lock column next to the
layer you want to edit.
• To lock all layers, choose Lock All Layers from the palette menu.
Using master pages with layers
Master page items reside on the Default layer on layout pages. With regard to layers, master
page items have the following characteristics:
• If you apply a master page to a layout page, the items on the master page will affect only
the Default layer of that layout page.
• Items added to the master page are placed behind any items that have been added to the
Default layer on a layout page.
• Master page items residing on the Default layer may be moved to another layer, but those
items will no longer be master page items.
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