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Here we're going to talk about palettes. Adobe has done a lot in this version to improve the way palettes work for you. Over here, on the right hand side, you can see a number of palettes and at the default install, yours is going to look something like this. Now, one of the problems people have always complained about is that there are so many palettes, it's very hard to see anything in this screen, so they've worked very hard to try and get these just right for you and I think it's a huge improvement. First of all, let's look at some basics. Here you can see there's just an icon and then a page description of what it is. Now, if you don't like that, you want to really see them, you can click on the expand dock like this. Obviously it takes up a lot more space, but then you can see them here and, as you can see, they're actually nested in groups of three or four, like this and you can click on any one to make them active. Now, that's a lot of clutter, in my mind, so I would prefer it closed like this, so I'll just collapse my icons, like this. Now, if you're familiar with what the icons are and you don't need the description, you can close it up even more, so you can come over here, press down, drag in like this and there it's taking up very little real estate on your monitor and you can see what the icon is. So if you need the swatches, for example, simply click here and it comes out. Notice that the other two items here, the object styles and the stroke are available in this palette. Collapse them, just click in like that. Let's pull another one out here, our pages. Now, if I come down and click on the swatches again, like this, that one collapses as well, so this one comes out. Again, click on any one down here. Only one can be out at a time, like this. Now, these aren't all the palettes within Indesign. There are a lot more. If we go over to the window menu here and pull it down, in between the line at the top and the line at the bottom are all the palettes that are available to us. You can see where there's an arrow here, there are a lot of sub-palettes. They just come out as normal palettes. They're just listed as sub-palettes here just to group them together to make it a little bit easier on this palette here. Now, the only ones that are checked are the control palette, which is up at the top here and the tools palette, which is over here on the left, so even these ones here are kind of open. They're down here and available on the screen, but they don't show up as open. If I click on the layers palette, like this, it pulls it out from this docket at the side. Now if I pull the window menu, you can see it's available. Let me close it up here. Now, if I open up a palette that isn't part of these ones, it will open up in the middle of the screen. For example, let me just go to interactive and just choose hyperlinks for one. You can see that it comes out. Now, one of the things you'll notice is that not just it comes out. It comes out with states and bookmarks. If we go back to our window menu, you can see that these are the three that are linked together, like that. So if you want to move these over here like this, you can simply do it, expand them, collapse them and then drag them over. Now, we can put them over in this menu here and we'll be talking about in the next movie how to do that.