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• 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).
• Point/Segment Type: Lets you change the point or segment type of an item so you can
manipulate points, curve handles, and line segments.
• Drop Shadow: Lets you apply or modify an item's drop shadow.
• Composition Zones: Lets you create or modify Composition Zones.
• Preview Resolution: Lets you set the preview of a picture to full resolution or low
resolution.
• Delete All Hot Areas (Web layouts only): Removes the image map designations of a picture
that serve as hyperlinks.
• Cascading Menu (Web layouts only): Lets you apply a cascading menu to an item that has
been specified to export as a graphic.
• Basic Rollover (Web layouts only): Lets you apply a basic rollover to an item so that the
image will change when the mouse pointer is over the rollover box.
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