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Changing view size and navigating a document

Changing view size and navigating a document - InDesign Tutorial

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Changing view size and navigating a document

- [Voiceover] To feel confident in InDesign, you need to be able to navigate your documents easily. Firstly, if you have more than one document open, you can switch between them by clicking the name on the tab bar. So that we have some practice in working with a multi-page document, I'm gonna switch to this one, History of Art. There are many ways to zoom in and out on your page. Here are my favorites. I'm in my Selection tool, and I'm gonna double-click on this text frame, to make an insertion point. I'll now press Command or Control + 2 to jump to 200% view. Once you're at an enlarged view, if you wish to move around, at that view size, here's a shortcut. Hold down the Option or Alt key and the Spacebar, and then click and drag your page around. That's equivalent to choosing the Hand tool. Which of course you can do, it's just more efficient to use the shortcut. So that's Option and Spacebar, or Alt and Spacebar. I should mention that, in some contexts, you can use Alt or Spacebar…

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