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Chapter 1: Understanding InDesign Ingredients
✓ The third element is the View Options pop-up menu, which lets you
hide and show frames boundaries, hidden characters, grids, and other
such visual aids from one handy location. These options previously
existed but only in a variety of scattered menu options (where they also
remain).
✓ The fourth element, the Screen Mode pop-up menu, duplicates the
Screen Mode feature at the bottom of the Tools panel (explained later
in this chapter).
✓ The fifth element, the Arrange Documents pop-up menu, gives you fast
access to InDesign’s controls over how document windows are arranged
(covered later in this chapter).
✓ The sixth element, the Workspaces pop-up menu, gives you quick access
to the workspaces you’ve defined (as described in the “Working with
Panels, Docks, and Workspaces” section, later in this chapter).
✓ The seventh element is the Adobe Community Search menu, which you
can use to find help from the Adobe community forums on the Web.
✓ At the far right is the new Access CS Live button, which opens up
Adobe’s extra-cost subscription services such as multiuser screen shar-
ing and multiuser design review in your browser.
Pages and guides
Pages, which you can see on-screen surrounded by black outlines, reflect the
page size you set up in the New Document dialog box (File➪New➪Document
[Ô+N or Ctrl+N]). If in your document window it looks like two or more pages
are touching, you’re looking at a spread.
InDesign uses nonprinting guides, lines that show you the position of margins
and that help you position objects on the page. Margins are the spaces at the
outside of the page, whereas columns are vertical spaces where text is sup-
posed to go by default. Magenta lines across the top and bottom of each page
show the document’s top and bottom margins. Violet lines show left and
right columns (for single-page documents) or inside and outside columns (for
spreads).
You can change the location of margin and column guides by choosing
Layout➪Margins and Columns. You can create additional guides — such as
to help you visually align objects — by holding down your mouse button on
the horizontal or vertical ruler and then dragging a guide into the position
you want.
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