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✓ Any active panel has a collapse control (the >> icon). For panels in the
dock, clicking that icon collapses it back into the dock. For panels not in
the dock (that is, for floating panels), collapsing them shrinks the panel
to a much smaller size to get them out of the way. When collapsed, these
panels will have a << icon to expand them again. (The Tools panel is an
exception: Clicking the >> icon changes it to a two-column layout, while
clicking the << icon changes it to a one-column layout.)
✓ Some panels have an expand/collapse control, which looks like a caret
(^) above a down-facing caret. Click the control to show more or fewer
options. (If all options are displayed, clicking the control will shorten the
panel and hide some of the advanced options; if only the basic options
are displayed, clicking the control lengthens the panel and shows all the
options.)
Panels new to InDesign CS5 are
✓ The Access CS Live, CS News and Resources, and CS Review panels
(which relate to extra-cost online services from Adobe not covered in
this book)
✓ The Animation, Background Tasks, Media, Object States, Preview, and
Timing panels, which are part of InDesign CS5’s new multimedia capa-
bilities (see Chapter 24)
✓ The Mini Bridge and Tool Hints panels covered in this chapter
✓ The Track Changes panels (see Chapter 12)
To better suit your working style, you can drag panels by their tabs to move
them from one panel group to another, drag them out of a dock so that
they’re free-floating, or drag them into a dock so that they’re no longer free-
floating. The dock feature lets you keep panel groups in one contained area,
which helps keep the interface from getting too cluttered. But you’re not
forced to work this way: You can still drag panels outside the main dock so
that they’re free-floating on-screen.
Not all panels display in the main dock; less-used panels, such as Data Merge,
show up in a free-floating panel group when you open them via the Window
menu. Of course, you can always add such panels to the main dock if you use
them a lot.
All but three panels have a tab, which contains its name, to help you select
the desired panel without having to go to the Window menu. The three special
panels (without tabs) are the Tools, Control, and Quick Apply panels. Unlike
the rest of InDesign’s panels, they can’t be grouped with other panels, so you
don’t need a tab to select them. Also, note that the Quick Apply panel is the
only one not available via the Window menu; instead, use the lightning-bolt
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