From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Fundamentals

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Scrolling (or panning) a document

Scrolling (or panning) a document - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Fundamentals

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Scrolling (or panning) a document

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- In this movie, I'll show you how to scroll, or if you prefer, pan using the Hand Tool. So let's say I go ahead and zoom into my document by pressing ctrl + , or cmd + on the Mac, a bunch of times, and as a result, I'm just sitting here looking at this mostly blank center portion of the first artboard. If I want to scroll to, once again, David, I could do so using these scroll boxes in either the horizontal scroll bar down here at the bottom of the screen, or the vertical one along the right-hand side of the screen. But it's easy to pass over the element that you're looking for and they're pretty clunky controls. The better way to work is to take advantage of another tool at the bottom of the tool box, which is the Hand Tool. And what it allows you to do is just drag the image around like so. Now, obviously this is the kind of thing you'll be doing all the time inside of Illustrator, which is why you'll most definitely want to know about another keyboard shortcut, and that's the…

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