Interface Basics / Customizing Pallets
Subtitles of the Movie
In the last movie, we saw how the palettes work and show up on your screen with these ones locked over here, but what happens if you don't really want to use the ones that InDesign has put here for you? Well, they're very simple to change. Let me just show you. You've got these ones docked. These group of four are docked together, so I can click on the layers palette and if I don't want them on this menu, I want them over here, I simply drag them over here like this. They're no longer part of this side docked. Now let's look at links. I don't want to use that at the moment, so I can just simply close it out. Info, close it out like this. Pages, I want it separate from the layers, so I can drag it out and I've got these two palettes over here. Now, this is no longer docked at the moment, so when I close it out, like this, it disappears. Same with layers. If I want to bring it back, I can just bring the layers one like this and then get the pages one, bring it back and it comes back to where it was before. Now, if I do want it docked, I could just simply drag it over here, drop it on the bottom like that. Notice how it becomes its own group. Now, if I want the pages to become part of another group for example, this top group here, I can just simply take it, press and drag and drop it up so that, you see the blue line there? It may be a little hard to see, but there's a little blue line in between the swatches and the strokes, like that and that inserts the pages there. Just customize the groups. Here's the swatches here. Let me just drag it out like this and then we have the color. I'm going to drag it out like this, drag it up here because I want these two together. There's the gradient. That's appropriate for in here. Drag it up here and maybe my stroke, I want it over here. Drag it here, drag it up to the top and close these out. I want this to be its own group, part of here. Drag it down here to the blank space and it drops out like that. Let me just drag it out again here. One thing you might want to be careful with is if you drag it over here to the right of it, it kind of creates a second docked group like this which can be a little confusing. You're much better off on a single long line, as long as you can handle that, but it's good to know that if you need a lot of dockers on the page at any one time, you can always drag it up here and effectively create a second row. I'll drag it in so that there are just icons there. Remember, as we saw in the last movie, you can show them like this, where you get the brief description, or you can just show them like this. In a couple of movies from now, we'll be looking at customizing your work space, which shows you how to have multiple versions here to suit the way that you work.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe InDesign CS3 |
| Author: | Brian White |
| SKU: | 33790 |
| ISBN: | 1-934743-02-X |
| Release Date: | 2007-08-29 |
| Duration: | 13.5 hrs / 244 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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