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Chapter 1: Understanding InDesign Ingredients
InDesign gives you one — and only one — tool for each specific job. The
Tools panel includes tools for creating and manipulating the objects that
make up your designs. The tools in the Tools panel are similar to those in
other Adobe products (such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver). I
cover what each tool does in the following sections.
The small arrow in the lower-right corner of some tools is a pop-out menu
indicator. A tool that displays this arrow is hiding one or more similar tools.
To access these “hidden” tools, click and hold a tool that has the pop-out
menu indicator, as shown in Figure 1-2. When the pop-out displays, click one
of the new tools.
You can now also Control+click or right-click a tool to see the “hidden” tools.
You don’t need to worry about all the tools, so I highlight just those that
you’ll need to know to start using InDesign. You’ll likely come across the
others as you work on specific tasks, so I cover those in the chapters that
introduce those functions.
Figure 1-2:
The
InDesign
Tools panel
(left) and
its pop-
out tools
(center). To
see pop-
out tools,
Control+
click or
right-click
any tool that
has a small
triangle
appear-
ing in its
lower-right
corner
(right).
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