From the course: InDesign: Beyond the Essentials
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Customizing InDesign menus - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Beyond the Essentials
Customizing InDesign menus
When you go to the File Menu, do you really need this Import XML feature? Well, if you do XML, then you do, but if not, then why clutter up the Menu with it? The more features you have in the Menu, the less efficient you're going to be when you're going to look for a feature in a menu. But you can customize InDesign's menus really easily. To do that, you go to the Edit menu, and choose Menus, way down here at the bottom. Up comes the Menu Customization dialog box and you can see that all the menus are listed here. I'll open the File menu, and I'll choose the feature that I want to change, in this case, Import XML. This little picture there is a graphic of an eyeball, and if I click on it, it disappears. That simply means that the feature will no longer appear in the Menu. This column on the right, the color column, lets me assign a color to a feature. For example, first, I'm going to close this File section and I'm going to open the Type menu section. Inside the Type menu, I'm going…
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