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Learning and editing keyboard shortcuts

Learning and editing keyboard shortcuts - InDesign Tutorial

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Learning and editing keyboard shortcuts

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If you want to get efficient in InDesign, or any other program, you should learn how to use it with your hands on the keyboard, and that means learn the keyboard shortcuts. Now, InDesign has lots of keyboard shortcuts, just look in the menus. Here in the File menu we can see that the Open feature is Command+O or Ctrl+O on Windows. Close is Command+W or Ctrl+W on Windows and so on. It says so right in the menu. But some keyboard shortcuts in InDesign are not so obvious. For example, every feature in the Tool Panel, all of these tools, have a keyboard shortcut assigned to them. The way you find those out is by placing the cursor on top of them, just momentarily, and you'll see a little tool tip show up and you can see that the Pen tool is the letter P. The Line tool is the backslash, the Type tool is the letter T, the Selection tool, otherwise known as the black arrow tool, is the V key, or Escape. So for example, if I want to switch the Type tool, I can simply press T. Now, I can edit…

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