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Using the Direct Selection tool

Using the Direct Selection tool - InDesign Tutorial

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Using the Direct Selection tool

- In this movie, I'll introduce you to the direct selection tool, which is this white arrow, right here. What it does, is it allows you to make very specific modifications to your designs. So if the black selection tool allows you to select big things in InDesign, then the white direct selection tool allows you to select very small things. Now, for the moment, we are done with the text wrap panel, so I can click its little close icon there to send it away. Or, I can go back to the window menu and again choose the text wrap command, and that will make it disappear as well. Now, using my black selection tool, I'll click on the image to select it. Not only do we see the blue frame with all of its handles surrounding the image, but we also see that faint outline outside the image, which represents the offset text wrap. Let's say that you want to modify that wrap in order to customize it. In that case, you would switch to the direct selection tool, which you can get by pressing the "a"…

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