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Opening and getting around a document

Opening and getting around a document - InDesign Tutorial

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Opening and getting around a document

- In this movie I'll show you how to open an existing InDesign document, that is something you've created and saved in the past. I'll also show you how to get around that document by which I mean, zoom-in for a closer look, and zoom-out to take in an entire page. Now, if you're a Premium member of Lynda.com and you have access to my exercise files, I want you to go up to the File menu and choose the open command. And this is a command that you'll be using on a regular basis to open documents that you've created in the past, but it also allows you to open documents created by other people on different machines whether they're using a Mac or a PC. You also have a shortcut of "Ctrl O" here on a PC or "Command O" on a Mac. And that will bring up the Open a File dialog box. Now notice that I've got two versions of this file that's called Photoshop 3D notes; there is an "indd" version which you can open in the most recent version of InDesign CC, but if you're using an older version of the…

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