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In this movie I'm going to talk about the general interface. Now, in the previous movie with the Mac and the PC we took a look at the Application Bar up here at the top so I'm basically going to ignore it and you can refer back there because we do get into the functions of these options up here a little bit more as we mov along. But first of all I'm going to open up a new document. So let me just click on Document and you don't have to worry what I'm doing here. I'm just creating a few blank pages, eight pages and I'm going to accept all the defaults like that. So let's take a look at the menu. So, besides the Application Bar, if we come down here, we see our menus; pretty standard, the same as most programs. Obviously the options are a little bit different. But there is one thing you're going to see that's a little bit different here is Show All Menu Items. So basically it's not showing everything. I have to click here to see it all. If I click away, hold down the Type Menu again, you see, they're still all hidden. I have to click there every time; Windows, Show All Menus. And the reason for that is depending on the Workspace you're using, and we'll talk about Workspaces in detail later, but some Workspaces, especially the basic ones, hide some of the menus from you. Getting Started is the Workspace I'm using so for example, if I had the Advanced Workspace chosen and I pull down any of these menus, Show All Menus is just not available because it shows everything by default. If I go back to Getting Started like that, all these other things change but down here I've go to Show All Menus every time. So that's one thing to look at in the menus. As we've seen before, we have the shortcut options over here. You'll note on Mac these are symbols for Option, Command or Shift. On the PC they actually give you Control, Alt or Shift and then the Shortcut key that you're going to use. But the shortcut keys are exactly the same. Moving down a little bit here we have the Control Panel. This is a wonderful Control Panel because it's context-sensitive so depending on what I have selected, it will change to reflect the actions I'm going to be able to use. Now, by default this is located up at the top but I can choose to dock at the bottom down here so I sometimes use this when I'm working, my day-to-day work. But for the purpose of this tutorial I'll just dock it at the top so that your screen will probably look the same. And we'll look at how this Control Panel works again coming up. This is an overview. Down here we have the Tool Panel. These are the important tools that let you select, let you create frames and let you edit things on the page; very important. You don't have to have this up all the time. Just like the Control Panel but these are so powerful you're going to want to. So if I want to come over and click this double arrow here, you can see that it stacks them up beside each other. If I click this one again like this it puts them in a line. This one is probably better because it takes up less space on the screen. Now, over on the right-hand side we have different panels. I can come over and click in one like that and here we'll see the pages that I have in the document. And see, we created eight pages and there's a thumbnail of them and as we start creating things in the page, you're going to be able to see little thumbnails of what's there as well. To close the panel, I come over, hit the double arrows. I can click in another one like that, close it, stroke, color, notice a couple of them are stacked on top of each other like that. And depending on the Workspace I have chosen, you'll see different ones here. You can see in the Advanced they're definitely different ones there. I can close that up but let me just go back to Getting Started again. Now, these panels show an icon and then the description but you can change this by coming over to this edge and here you can see the double arrow. I'll press and drag in like that and there I can make them just icons or drag them out like that if I really want to see what they are. As you get used to them you're definitely going to probably want just to show the icon once you know what they are because again, it's taking up less space on your page. Over here in the middle you have the Document Window. Here we have the documents that open. If I just come over and open another recent document, let's choose the one we had in the last one with Mac and PC screens, you can see that they're stacked together like this. We can change it and I'm going to look at that in another movie because it is a new feature within InDesign CS4. Down at the bottom we have the page number so if I want to switch to a different page, I can simply click there, come down, Page 8, go back to Page 1 and these arrows can be used to navigate too. See how we navigate them like that? This one takes you to the last page in the document. This one here takes you to the first page in the document. Down here we Live Preflight. This is a new feature and it checks for errors as you go along. It's kind of an advanced feature and we'll get to it but much, much later in the tutorial. Then we have the Scrollbars. They're standard for most programs. Just scroll down through your pages vertically or horizontally, across, especially if you've got a spread. That's useful. There are many other ways of navigating through your document and again, as we build on this we'll be looking at it in detail.