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The Timing panel's best friend: The Layers panel

The Timing panel's best friend: The Layers panel - InDesign Tutorial

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The Timing panel's best friend: The Layers panel

- We often take the layers panel for granted and don't think about it too much, but actually, the layers panel is a really important part of working with InDesign animations. I've rearranged my workspace, here, so that we can see the layers panel more clearly. Now, you probably know that images in your file will show up in the layers panel by their name. It's pretty easy to tell that that's this image. Our text also shows up in the layers panel with the text, itself, showing in the panel. Again, no cause for confusion there. But many other objects in InDesign have these really generic names, and it's very hard to know what's what. For example, I have four lines here. Which one is which? Oh, this is the bottom line. If I click on these proxies, I can select the line on my page, and that's that line. But, otherwise, the description is completely vague. Likewise, if I click on a grouped item, I only get the name group. Or, what about this number, which is an outline? It just says path…

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