| In design tool bar | Short cut | InDesign Action | Notes |
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 Selection tool -- Outline hollow arrow (V, escape) |
entire objects (outer border) -- plus ctrl -- scales image as you reszie -- plus shift -- maintains aspect ratio Grab text frames, image frames and shapes with this tool to move them elsewhere, or click and drag corners of objects to adjust size. Top tip: Hold down Shift while using this tool to keep the proportions of an element fixed. |
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 Direct Selection tool -- Solid (white) arrow A |
object within a frame moving object ourside of the parent frame image gets cut off suited to adjusting the position of individual points. |
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 Text |
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 X frame |
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| when you're using the Selection Tool (v - black arrow) and you hover over the center of the object all of a sudden it begins to act like the Direct Selection tool (a - white arrow) and instead of moving your object around the page you're now moving the object within the bounding box. Why this is a "feature" is beyond me. It makes direct selection and regular selection some horrible hybrid. To turn this feature off go to "View > Extras > Hide Content Grabber". | |||
| Scheme | Out layer is via rectange frame tool. Inside frame x is image. Inside frame is second rectange frame containing caption. | zxcv | |
| Link two existing text frames together (both have text) | (1) Choose black arrow (Selection) tool and click out port of first frame.(2) Cursor indicates ready to connect to another frame. Out port of first frame show text continuing. (3) hold down the Command/Ctrl key to select the second frame. With your cursor, click the In Port (upper left corner) of second frame. (4) ou're not "dragging to the other box". You're clicking the little square (black arrow is over it above). | ||
| Images | an image is imported into InDesign it actually is two separate components—the container frame (offically known as a Graphics Frame) and the image itself. | ||
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