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Chapter 1: Understanding InDesign Ingredients
 You can also use the Pages panel to navigate your document, as Chapter
4 explains.
Opening Multiple Document Windows
If you like to work on more than one project at once, you’ve come to the right
program. InDesign lets you open several documents at once. It also lets you
open multiple windows simultaneously for individual documents. A large
monitor (or having multiple monitors connected) makes this multiwindow
feature even more useful. By opening multiple windows, you can
 Display two (or more) different pages or spreads at once. You still have
to work on the documents one at a time, but no navigation is required —
you have only to click within the appropriate window.
 Display multiple magnifications of the same page. For example, you
can work on a detail at high magnification in one window and display the
entire page — and see the results of your detail work — at actual size in
another window.
 Display a master page in one window and a document page based
on that master page in another window. When you change the master
page, the change is reflected in the window in which the associated
document page is displayed.
Document windows are now by default accessed through a set of tabs below
the Control panel, rather than as a series of cascaded windows as in previous
versions of InDesign.
When multiple windows are open, you activate a window by clicking on a win-
dow’s title tab or anywhere within its window. Also, the names of all open docu-
ments are displayed at the bottom of the Window menu. Choosing a document
name from the Window menu brings that document to the front. If multiple
windows are open for a particular document, each window is displayed (they’re
displayed in the order in which you created them) in the Window menu.
To show multiple windows on-screen at once, choose
Window➪Arrange➪Tile. When you choose the Tile command, all open win-
dows are resized and displayed side by side. Or use one of the new window-
layout options in the new Arrange Documents pop-up menu’s options (in
the application bar). How they display will depend on the option you chose.
Either way, note that when you resize any individual document window, the
others will be resized accordingly so that they don’t overlap.
To put all these tiled windows back into their regular tabs so that
only one document window is visible on-screen at a time, choose
Window➪Arrange➪Consolidate All Windows or choose the Consolidate All
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