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Here I'm going to give you an overview of the Control Panel. The Control Panel in InDesign is really so powerful. It's optional that you can have it on the screen. This is it up at the top here at the moment but I can't see a conceivable reason why anybody wouldn't want it here. It is a contact-sensitive menu so that means that when you select certain items, it changes depending on what the item is. Everything here is contact-sensitive. But first of all, let me show you a few basic about operating it. If I come along here and pull down this menu at the right-hand side here, I've got three choices down at the bottom. I can dock at the bottom. So if you like it down at the bottom of the screen, you can pop it there. Come down here. We can float it. That means it goes out in the middle like this and the last option is that we can dock it at the top. Now, I've got it off the screen. I can barely see that menu. Here it is. And we can go dock it at the top again there. If you want to just drag it off temporarily, you just drag it down here like this, come back to this gray area here, drag it up at the top and I don't know if you can see it but there's a little blue line in between the top of my tab here and the top of the screen and it gets docked back up there. So this is where I'm going to keep it for the rest of your tutorial but you can place it wherever is convenient for you. Now, as I say, I'm not going to go through everything in detail but I'm going to give you a brief overview of how it works. First of all, as I'm moving around here with nothing selected, if you look up here it'll tell you the position of my mouse on the screen. I don't find that particularly useful but if you're wondering what all this grayed out area is, that's what it is. However, when I select an object, everything changes to the contact-sensitive values that are related to whatever object it is. It'll change if I select Text, so if I come over here, double click in here and select this as text you'll see that we have a lot of different text options. Let me just go back to the Selection Tool and select this graphic here. Over here we have the Reference Point. I refer to it as a Proxy Button and it is what position you're making any changes or any references to. At the moment you can see the dark black square here in the middle so any references up here where appropriate are referencing the middle. I can just see the blue point here. Maybe you can see it right there and it's telling me on the X axis it's 2.21. So that's coming down there as 2.21 and on the Y axis, 6.59. This is the Y axis here, 6.59. Now, if I go to the top, right-hand corner, it's going to give me the position of this point over here. See, it's changed? 4.7, 1.9 going across there. Now remember, it'll give you the reference of the frame, not of the objects. So there's nothing really part of the object up here in the top right-hand corner but that's the reference point it's giving me. Most times you're going to keep it in the center. Now, this is important if you're doing something like rotation or skewing because it'll rotate from that point. If I have the top, left-hand corner selected and I rotate here, you can see it'll rotate around that point. Let me undo that, Control or Command Z. If I want to rotate it from the center, I'd click it in the center and then hit the same rotation button and as you can see, it's a completely different shape. Over here we have the width and the height of the object and again, as I select anything else, it'll give me a different width and height. And remember, it's the width and the height of the frame, not the actual text because the text doesn't take up quite 6.3 inches there. Let me move over and select the Text Tool and double click in this. When I select it again, it changes all the contact-sensitive information to character formatting at this time. See the letter A here? That tells us it's character formatted. So that's font, font size, then you've got the different characters, uppercase, superscript, Subscript and of course we're going to go into these in an awful lot more detail as we move along. Down here is paragraph-level formatting. Alignment, spacing, first line indents, spacing above and below paragraph, bullets, et cetera. So as soon as I click on something different, back to the Selection Tool, there you can see it changes in what everything, all the options are available to us. Well, they're not necessarily all the options. As we go through some of these panels, they definitely have more options than are available here but for most things you're working on, I think you'll find that the Control Panel really lets you do most of the basic stuff. You are going to have to go to these other panels for more advanced features but that is not to take away from the power of this Control Panel.