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073 Working with sets in the content conveyor tool

073 Working with sets in the content conveyor tool - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

073 Working with sets in the content conveyor tool

One of the interesting new features in InDesign CS6 is this thing called the Content Tools, Content Collector, Content Placer, and Content Conveyor, and they're used to grab content from one area of your InDesign document and put them elsewhere in the same document or in another document, kind of like a permanent clipboard while the InDesign document is active. The tools are right here in the Toolbar, the Content Collector Tool. The shortcut is B, and if you press B again it switches to its partner in crime, which is the Content Placer. And if I press and hold down here, you can see the Content Collector is an arrow that goes into a little bucket and the Content Placer is an arrow that comes out of the bucket. And whenever you choose either of these tools, you'll get the Content Conveyor, which is this gray thing right here. And when the Content Conveyor is active, meaning that one of these tools is active, then when you click on an object with the Content Collector it selects that…

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