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In this movie I'm going to talk about Panels. There are lots of different Panels in InDesign, each with different functions. We're not going to go into the details of what they do in this particular movie, we're just going to give you an overview of how they work and how you can arrange them. First of all there's the Control Panel and the top and that's a special one so it gets its own movie. We're going to talk about the other ones like these ones down the side here. If we pull down the Window Menu here, you can see there are a lot of different panels here and because I'm in the Getting Started, which is a very basic Workspace, I can choose Show All Menus and it shows the hidden ones. If there's an arrow out here, it means there are even more after it, like that. Now, to select one I can just come in and click in this and it comes out into the page like this. This is the Info Panel. I can click the arrow to collapse it, the double arrow actually it is. Double arrow brings it up again and to close it out like that. If they happen to be docked at the side here, then I can click on them like this to bring it out again, the double arrow collapses them up and some of them have some options where you can go into different menus here by clicking on this little arrow here. You can go in perhaps, for example, to create a new color swatch here that I can do like that. I just want to do it quickly, click in OK and there's another one. Close it up like this. I don't have to have them in this location. But if I do want them here, I don't have to have it this wide. I can come over and when they're double arrows, as we saw in the previous movie, we can drag it in so that you see a little bit less of the text, even partial text. You can see the way it's getting cut off or just drag it right in like that and we can just see the icon. If I want to bring it out like this, I can drag it out on the page. Now, if I were using double monitors, I could drag this out and to the other monitor. I don't have one here so it's not going to let me take it too far away from the screen like that. But I can have this one just floating up here, close it up when I'm not using it, bring it out when I am like that. If I want to dock it again I can just drag it over here and notice this little blue arrow. There's two coming along here; one you can see the horizontal one below it. If I dock it there it goes back to where it was. Let's bring it out again like this, press and drag to bring it out and then I can always create a new column with it. If I drag it over too far like that and didn't quite get it there, I'll try that again. Here, I'll put it in this side and there it's created another column beside that. Now, this takes up a lot of space. I particularly don't like that so what I would do to get rid of it in this case is just drag it off there and drag it back so that it's underneath. You can see that these are in groups. Sometimes these groups are logical and if I were to want this one, the swatches, color swatches in with these two, which are color and stroke, I can simply drag it and instead of dropping it at the bottom I'll move it up a little bit like that. Notice it's in between those two. Now, I have these three tabs together and on one side I can just change from stroke to swatches to color. Now, it really doesn't matter which ones I'm using here. The principle is the same for them all. I'm going to close this one up here like this and let's just open a couple of other ones. Text Wrap; if I use it a lot, I can bring it out, drag it in over here, drop it at the side. I don't really want that over there. I can see the blue line there. I want it down below like that. Then maybe I can bring out one of the Type ones like Paragraph, Paragraph Styles, again, drag it over here, drop it down at the bottom. It didn't quite go in with that one so again if I want to correct it and just drag it out and then pop it in so that it's over this way. And that way these two are now in a group like that and I can access them easily. There are some more things we can do with them in customizing it and we'll get into that as we move along and especially in the next movie, which is about Workspaces.