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Chapter 1: Understanding InDesign Ingredients
you print documents and prepare them for commercial printing; and
where you set basic user information. Note that none of these menu
items’ functions are available in panels, except for the Preflight feature.
✓ Edit: This menu lets you cut, copy, and paste elements; edit, spell-check,
and do search-and-replace operations across entire stories and set up
story for the InCopy add-on program; adjust and manage color settings;
set up and change keyboard shortcuts and menu preferences; apply
various styles to selected objects and text; and undo and redo recent
actions. In Windows, you also set preferences and quit the program
from this menu. Note that these menu items’ functions, except for Quick
Apply, aren’t available in panels.
✓ Layout: With this menu, you add, delete, rearrange, and navigate pages;
change margins and guides; automatically resize a page and its objects;
set up page numbering and sections; and create and format tables of
contents. Note that these menu options’ functions — except for the
Pages, page-navigation, and Numbering & Section Options menus —
aren’t available in panels.
✓ Type: With this menu, you adjust typographic attributes such as size
and font, insert special characters, work with footnotes, work with
layout notes; add placeholder text; and control the on-screen display of
special characters such as spaces. Note that the Find Font, Change Case,
Type on a Path, Document Footnote Options, Text Variables, Insert
Character, Fill with Placeholder Text, Tabs, and Show Hidden Characters
menu items’ functions aren’t available through panels.
✓ Object: You use this menu to change the shape, size, location, and other
attributes of objects, such as frames and lines; apply special effects to
objects; insert multimedia effects such as buttons; and control how fast
the screen redraws when you make changes. Note that the Text Frame
Options, Anchored Object, Corner Options, Clipping Path, and Convert
Shape menu items’ functions aren’t available through panels.
✓ Table: Use this menu to create, change, and format tables and cells.
Note that this menu’s functions are available through panels.
✓ View: This menu lets you control the display of your document, from
zoom level to whether guides, rulers, and frame edges appear. Note that
none of these menu items’ functions, except for Screen Mode and the
zoom controls, are available in panels.
✓ Window: This menu is where you manage the display of document
windows and panels, as well as where you set up and work with work-
spaces. The window display and workspace functions aren’t available
via panels.
✓ Help: Use this menu to access InDesign’s help system and manage
product activation and registration. In Windows, this menu also lets
you manage plug-ins. Note that none of these menu items’ functions are
available in panels.
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