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Part I: Before You Begin
Windows option (single-window icon) in the Arrange Documents pop-up
menu in the application bar.
If you don’t like the tabbed approach to windows and instead want to
use the old-style approach of stacked windows, you can. Just choose
WindowArrangeFloat All in Windows. You can then move the indi-
vidual windows around the screen as desired; if they get too messy, choose
WindowsArrangeCascade to tell InDesign to make them all neat and
tidy in a cascaded stack. If you want to go back to tabbed windows, choose
WindowArrangeConsolidate All Windows.
To close all windows for the currently displayed document, press Shift+Ô+W
or Ctrl+Shift+W. To close all windows for all open documents, press
Option+Shift+Ô+W or Ctrl+Alt+Shift+W.
Not only do you get separate document windows for each open document,
you can also create multiple windows for an individual document so that you
can see different parts of it at the same time. To open a new window for the
active document, choose WindowArrangeNew Window (or use the New
Window option in the new Arrange Documents pop-up menu in the applica-
tion bar). The new window is displayed in its own tab or window, depending
on whether you’ve enabled Open Documents as Tabs in the Interface pane
of the Preferences dialog box (InDesignPreferencesInterface [Ô+K] or
EditPreferencesInterface [Ctrl+K]).
You can tell that a document window shows a different view of an existing
document by looking at the name of the document in the window’s title.
At the end of the document name will be a colon (:) followed by a number.
Newsletter.indd:1 would be the document’s first window, Newsletter.indd:2
would be its second window, and so on.
Tooling around the Tools Panel
You can move the InDesign Tools panel — the control center for 32 of
InDesign’s 33 tools, as well as for 13 additional functions — by clicking and
dragging it into position. The Tools panel usually appears to the left of a
document (see Figure 1-2).
The one tool not directly accessible from the Tools panel is the Marker tool.
But you can switch to it from the Eyedropper tool by holding Option or Alt.
(Chapter 6 explains its use.)
To discover each tool’s “official” name, hover the mouse pointer over a tool
for a few seconds, and a Tool Tip will appear, telling you the name of that tool.
If the Tool Tips don’t display, make sure that the Tool Tips pop-up menu is set
to Normal or Fast in the Interface pane of the Preferences dialog box (choose
InDesignPreferencesInterface [Ô+K] or EditPreferencesInterface [Ctrl+K]).