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Let's get to know the document window and all of the associated tools that go along with it. The first thing you'll notice, of course, is the actual outline that tells you the artboard dimensions, as you see here. This black line. If you don't want to see this, by the way, you can always turn it off by going to the View Menu and choosing to Hide the Artboards. Then the outline goes away. I'm going to bring mine back and I often do keep it up because I do like to know where the boundaries of my document are. This artboard size will change based on the documents in it, which I talk about later on. But just to give you a quick little tour of that, when I go to New and I choose a size, the paste board or rather the artboard changes. So let me go ahead and go back to my other document. Also, this guy is called your control bar and if you don't see this, go to the Window Menu and choose Control. The tools that show up here are context-sensitive and will change based on what you have selected. For example, I'll grab my selection tool and keep your eye up here. I'm going to click on the word here, star. The tools that show up deal with text, but if I click on the star, the tools to change to enable me to work with whatever I have selected, which in this case is a piece of vector artwork. So that's very important to have that up, so you can have very quick access to the tools you'll need to work with whatever you have selected. Down here on the bottom of the document window we have the ability to change our view. So we can zoom in and if you go too far, as I have here, at 6400 percent, I can always go to that menu again and choose to Fit on Screen or to choose a smaller number here. If I have more than one artboard selected, I can select it by going to this popup. But I only have one selected, so this is what I have; one. This guy down here, this little icon, will allow me to change what I see in this little status area. So I can show the current tool and when I click on a different tool, its name appears down there and it will stay there. This is very good for beginners so that you will get used to knowing what tool you're working with. So I have the Eraser selected and it says Eraser. I can also show different things like date and time. And the number of undos. Alright, what I'm going to do now is show you how to use the scrollbars, which if you've ever used any application in the world, you've probably seen these before. The scrollbars are most useful when you've zoomed into something like this. And you want to move around in the document. So I have scrollbars on the bottom and I also have these little arrows here that make it a little bit easier to move more slowly. I also have scrollbars on this side and once again they have arrows as well. So that's pretty much the basics of how to work within the document window. Just a quick shortcut I want to share with you; if you do want to fit your document back into view, double click on the Hand Tool.