Using layers to create MSOs

- Managing content for MSOs can get a bit complicated…when you go beyond just images for a slideshow.…Once you get into a situation like that…it's often easier to isolate the content…for each state on its own layer.…Let's take a look at some ways to make that easier.…Now I'm in the exercise file called layers.indd…and I'm going to need a couple of panels to work on…for this exercise.…I'm going to first of all pull out my Object States panel…and I'm also going to need my Layers panel…so let's pull this out here also.…

And I've got my five objects that I want to turn into…a multistate object…and you can see as I click on them…that in the Layers panel things are highlighting.…So you can see that each one of these is on its own layer.…Now of course I can't leave it like this.…I want these to be all lined up quite nicely…so let's do that first.…Let's select them all.…And I'm going to come back and close my Links panel.…

I don't know how that got open.…And I'm going to open up the Align panel…and let's just click Align Left and Align Top.…