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178 How to hide the content grabber donut - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

178 How to hide the content grabber donut

- I love InDesign. You know I do, but there are some features that just drive me bonkers. For example, the doughnut. You know what I'm talking about? The doughnut? When you move your cursor on top of an image and you see this doughnut sitting in the middle. You might call it the bagel or the big "O." I think that's supposed to be a photo focus thing, like in a camera. Whatever the case, it's trying to be helpful, but it can be crazy making. Because if you click and drag by accident, you move the image inside the frame. Now I didn't even select that image, I didn't even select the frame, it just moved. So if I'm coming over here and I click and drag, it moves the image inside of there. Click and drag and it moves it and that's very frustrating. Let's undo that, CMD Z or Ctrl Z a few times to get it back to the way it's supposed to be. Ok, so I don't like that doughnut and maybe you don't either and you can get rid of it by going to the View menu, coming down to Extras, and turning off the Content Grabber. That's the real name for this thing. If you choose Hide Content Grabber it goes away. Now when I hover on top of images it's not there at all, and better yet, it doesn't take away any functionality. I can still select the image inside that frame. All I have to do is double click. Double click on the frame and I select the image inside the frame and I can move it around. Come over here and I double click and now I've got the image inside the frame. If I want to go back to select the frame, all I have to do is double click again. It goes back and it selects the frame. One more time, double click to select the image, and double click again, or, here's the shortcut, hit the ESC key. Double click to go in, ESC comes out. Sure this is just a little thing, but my goodness I am telling you learning how to disable that Content Grabber doughnut thing, saved my sanity.

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