From the course: InDesign for Editors
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Layers
- [Voiceover] A well constructed InDesign document will use layers. Layers are laid to organize content and to selectively hide and show, lock and unlock parts of a layer. Layers are simple to use. There are just a few conventions that editors need to be aware of. Firstly to what extent layers are used and what they are called depends upon how the designer setup the document. Layers determine the stacking order. In this particular document you can see there is a layer called captions on which, not surprisingly are the captions. If I hide that, you can see them disappear. But if I move this layer in the stacking order by dragging it beneath the pictures layer, the captions are now hidden by the pictures. So I'm just going to drag that back up so that you can see them again. Layers are color coded. When you select a frame, so you have your Frame Edges turned on, which I highly recommend you do, you will see the color corresponds to the color of the layer. You change the color of the…
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