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Navigating through an InDesign document

Adobe InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom

Changing the magni cation of your document

So far, you’ve been viewing this document at the magni cation level that was used when

the document was last saved. You may  nd it necessary to get a closer look at parts of your

document to check things such as alignment, spacing of type, or position of objects. Here you’ll

 nd that InDesign provides tools that make it easy to change the magni cation and inspect

components of the document.

1 In the Pages panel, double-click on the page 1 icon to display the  rst page of

the document.

2 Select the Zoom tool ( ). Using the Zoom tool, click and hold in the upper-left corner

of the Spinnews logo at the top of the page, then drag down to the lower-right corner of

the logo. Release the mouse once you have reached the lower-right corner of the logo.

The area you have outlined with the Zoom tool is magni ed.

Click and drag to increase the magni cation of a speci c area.

3 You may  nd that you enlarged the document too much or not enough. To  ne-tune

the magni cation, click with the Zoom tool to increase the magni cation incrementally.

Or, if you zoomed in too close, decrease the magni cation by pressing and holding the

Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) key while clicking with the Zoom tool.

You can quickly increase or decrease the magni cation of the document by using the keyboard

shortcut Ctrl+plus sign (Windows) or Command+plus sign (Mac OS) to zoom in on a

document, or Ctrl+minus sign (Windows) or Command+minus sign (Mac OS) to zoom out. If

you have an object selected or your cursor is inserted within a text frame, the page will center on

the selected object or cursor when changing the magni cation.

4 Select the Hand tool ( ) from the Tools panel, then click and hold down on your page.

Notice that the page magni cation changes and a red frame appears, indicating which

portion of the document will be visible when you have  nished scrolling.

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