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In InDesign CS4 they've done a lot to create Workspaces that'll help you in your workflow but more importantly they enable you to customize them for yourself. So let's take a look at the basic Workspaces that InDesign has built in for us. Up here at the top we can go up where it says Essentials here and come down and choose any of these built-in ones. We can go to Advanced. Notice how we just have the little icons here; Book, so if you're building a book, long documents, they've got the panels here that they feel are going to be most useful to you. Essentials, that's just the basic ones. Coming down, Getting Started. Here they have some that are very similar but there are changes up in the menu here in that they tell you to Show All Menus, otherwise they don't necessarily show everything that's available to you. You see the way that is? If I click back on it again, it only shows me a limited amount. But if I have Show All Menu Items, then they all come flying out. Down here, Printing and Proofing. The Separations Trap Presets, things like that become available here and then they got a What's New Panel and that's when you can come down here and you can see that the new items that are available or have been upgraded like Links are highlighted here so that you can check those out. Let's just go back to Essentials here. Here we have it and you can see down here we can pull out these panels just by clicking on them like that and we're finished. You just click this double arrow and they go over to the side. Now, let's bring one out again. If you would like them to automatically close, you can right click or Command click up here and choose Auto Collapse Panels. So as soon as you're done, click away like that, it collapses. Bring this one out, do something, click away, it collapses. But the default is, and I'm going to reset it that way, is not to. So that way if I click away over here, it doesn't go away and I have to close it myself like that. Now, with these panels here I can just make this smaller. I personally, and you'll see this in most of the tutorial, just have the icon here. Once you get used to this you don't really need the description because you'll know by looking at it what it is and of course you have the added advantage that it doesn't take up so much real estate space on your screen. Now, of course when you're using these panels, you're not going to want to use exactly what's in Essentials. For example, you could pull down the menu here and decide that you want the Pages one. Actually that was one that was available there. Bad choice. Text Wrap, for example. You could bring out the Text Wrap one and if you always want it here, you can simply just take it like this, drag it and put it in with this one. Let's choose another one here that you may want; Type and Table. Let's say you use Paragraph Styles, which I'm sure you will. You want those? Drag it over here and you can group some of these together. For example, I'll bring down Type and Tables Character Styles. Drag them over here and instead of docking it at the bottom, I dock it on top of this one. It might be hard for you to see the blue lines there but if I drop them there, that way I've got these together. When I click this out I can just toggle between any in this particular group like this. Now, the nice thing about it, the way they've set it up, is that if I close out now and reopen InDesign, it'll come back with these panels exactly the way I left them, even though it's Essentials like this and if I decide I want to, back to hide Essential where they were, I can just hit Reset Essentials like that. However, if I modify it and then let's just bring out a few more again, Character Styles, Paragraph Styles, drag them there, I can just dock them together like this, can slide this one over to the bottom, all the customization I may want. I can come up here and I can create a new workspace. I'll call it VTC1 like that and you've got a choice of the panel location and that's really what we'd be doing here and menu customization. We're going to be doing that later on in this chapter so I'll just accept those, click in OK and there our VTC1 is the one we've got available. If I come down and choose Essentials, we go back to Essentials, want to go back to VTC1 and of course, the object of this is that you would customize it depending on what project you're working on. If you're working on a graphic-intense project you may have one set of panels and menu choices. If you're dealing with a large book with many chapters, you might want different settings. But you can customize it to the nth degree.