Navigating the Document / Zoom Tool
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You can navigate through a page using the zoom tool and the zoom tool is located at the lower part of the toolbar, down here and Z is the Shortcut key for it, or zed, if you're living in different parts of the world. When you click it, you have a magnifying glass with a plus sign on it and you simply click anywhere on the page and you zoom in. Now, as we found out previously, the increments we're zooming in on are the pre-set ones here. So you can see it's at 100 percent. Click again, 125, 150. We're at 200 now, so I'll click again. The next one is 300, like that. To zoom out, you hold the alt or option key and click a couple of times, click again, click again and we're back out like that. As soon as I release the modifying key, it switches back to the zoom in tool, like this. Let me go to full page view, control- or command-0 here. Now, you'll notice that I zoom in around the area where I clicked, so if I want to zoom in on this beetle, I click there. Alt- or option-click and I zoom out. Zoom in around the spider, click there and you zoom in around it. So wherever you click on the page, that's your zoom in point. If I zoom out, alt or option and click, I zoom out around where I click. It becomes the center of the page. Let me zoom down and look at another option. This is the one that I would use most of the time and that is the marquee zoom. If you want to zoom in on an area, instead of just clicking once, you press the mouse button down and start dragging like that. You create a marquee and there you've zoomed in on the area in which you have drawn the marquee. Notice down here we've got that unusual 154.57, so it's pretty exact. If I want to zoom in on this text here, marquee select and zoom in like that. You can't marquee select out, so you have to go through those other methods. That's why I remember ctrl- or command-0 and that always takes me back to full page. If I need to zoom in on another area, draw the marquee and I'm right in it. Ctrl- or command-0 like this. Now, one thing about the zoom tool that I don't like is that when you select it and you zoom in like this, you've still got the zoom tool selected. You have to go back to the selection tool or whatever tool you wanted to deal with. Fortunately, there's a good way of dealing with it. If you hold down the ctrl and Spacebar, or command and Spacebar, the zoom tool comes up. I can then just click once or marquee zoom, as I tend to do, like this and when I release those modifying keys, I'm back to the selection tool. Let me zoom out full page again, ctrl- or command-0 and this time I'm going to select the text tool. If I've got the text tool selected, hold down ctrl or command Spacebar. I get the zoom tool. I release it. I'm back at the text tool again. Doesn't really matter what tool I have. If I'm sitting, drawing here, like this, decide I want to zoom in on this point, ctrl or command Spacebar, zoom in and as soon as I release, I'm back to my drawing tool like that. So that is definitely my preferred method. I always remember that one. Any time that I want to zoom in, I ctrl- or command-0 and I personally just like the marquee and as soon as I release, I'm back in using the tool that I had previously. That way you never actually have to scroll way down here to select this tool.
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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