InDesign overview
Content
Short-cuts
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Main short-cuts Copy a frame
drag
alt
Zoom in
ctrl
+
Zoom out
ctrl
-
Zoom more precise
alt scroll
Go to the content
double click
Go back a level Go to the content
esc
double click
Close the frame
esc
Unlock an masterpage-object ctrl,shift click Text frame options
ctrl
b
Show rules
ctrl
r
Export
ctrl e
Edit article in Story Editor
ctrl
y
Tools Hand tool
space
Zoom tool
ctrl space
Selection tool
v
Type tool
t
Rectangle tool
m
Ellipse tool
l
Toggle view settings
w
Content collector
b
Create your own short-cuts To create your own short-cuts, go to Edit/Keyboard short-cuts. Start with a new set and give it a name. Now you can add as many custom short-cuts as you like. Choose a product area and a command, type in the new short-cut and click on “Assign”.
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Short-cuts
Workspace
Some example Product-area “view menu” Fit spread in window
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In InDesign you can design your own workspace. Everything, except for the menu, is flexible. In the application frame (on Mac, make sure Window/Applicationframe is checked) you can move panels by dragging and dropping. To drop, look for light blue lines appearing. If the light bleu line covers a panel, it is placed in the same group.
Product-area “views, navigation” 200%
F2 If the light blue line covers the complete height of the screen, you have a new column available. If the light blue line is in between panels, you create a new group.
Product-area “object menu” Fill frame proportionally
F3
Adobe has created some examples to start from, displayed in de top right corner of the screen or in Windows/Workspace. I start from the “Advanced” workspace. Then I have modified it to set up my own workspace which includes all most important panels and has enough space left to add more, for instance for interactive documents.
Product-area “object menu” Fit content proportionally
F4 Here is mine.
Product-area “views, navigation” Access page number box
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Product-area “tools” Toggle view settings between default and preview
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Workspace I have placed all large panels that contain properties that are stored in the
So far there are only 2 “buttons” visible, but I add more when I work with
document on the right-hand side: Pages, Layers, Links, Swatches, Object,
interactive documents, such as Hyperlinks, Buttons, Media, Object States etc
Paragraph and Characterstyles. On the left-hand side you will find the panels that contain frame-properties, such as Info, Stroke, Gradient, Effects, Align, Pathfinder and Text Wrap. There is some space left were you can place similar panels that aren’t visible yet, such as Glyphs, Tables, etc. In between the document and the panels in the right-hand column, I have places 2 very large panels: Mini Bridge and the CC library. I have collapsed these, so they work as a button. Click and they appear, click again and they are gone. To collapse, click on the double arrow on the top of the column.
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