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Navigation tools

Navigation tools

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Navigation tools

- [Instructor] The navigation tools are quite simple and easy to use. If I'd like, I can jump into the View tab here, and I have a few navigation or zoom options. So I can just zoom in or zoom out or do a zoom fit or zoom document here. However, I personally very rarely use those navigation tools because all the navigation tools you really need are right within your mouse gestures, as well. So I can scroll up or down in a design, as we can see here, just by using my scroll wheel or clicking up on the arrows here. And if I want to zoom in or zoom out, again it's just the scroll wheel, but this time holding down Control, and I can zoom in to a specific portion of my design and similarly zoom out. So I'm just holding Control with the mouse scroll wheel here. Another option, I can click my mouse scroll wheel and move my mouse in or out. That's also just giving me a zoom in or zoom out here. And finally I have the ability to pan with a right mouse button click and just moving my mouse to…

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