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Navigating the Document / Tabbed Windows

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This chapter's about various navigation techniques and I'm going to start it off with a new feature and that is Tabbed Windows. Now, up at the top here above the open window you can see the name and then beside it we've got another tab and if I click in that, you can see it's another document. So this isn't an entirely revolutionary feature but it is new to InDesign. Before Tabbed Windows, the windows just floated in this screen. But I can still make them do it simply by coming up to one of the tabs, pressing down, dragging out. You can see the highlight off it. We'll release and there we have a floating window. I can float it anywhere now. You used not to be able to do that in InDesign, at least on the PC version like that and you can just place it anywhere in the screen. It's got its own Maximize and Minimize Buttons so I can maximize it so it takes over the entire screen like that and that's a good idea for viewing something without the clutter of the menus, et cetera. I can minimize it and on the PC if you double click in the bar, that maximizes it. Double click again brings it down into your window and I dragged it up there by mistake so that's easy to do and just drag it out like that and it comes back again. Now, if I want it to become a Tabbed Window again, I can just drag it up here and when it gets over the tabs, you can see how it changes to a little blue title bar like that. Release and there it is. So in the tabs you can see a few things. You can see the name and you can see the percentage at which you're viewing the document. I go to this one, you can see it's at 95 percent, this one at 72 percent. Now, if I wanted to float them all, I can just drag them all out like that or alternatively I can just go to this window here in the Application Bar and choose Float All Windows. If I want to get them back to the Tab View, I can come over and choose Consolidate All, which is the first icon on the top left. Sometimes you have to click twice on it. It doesn't seem to want to work. That's happened to me quite a few times. Maybe I'm just not clicking hard, but it's something that I've definitely noticed. These options are also available from the Window Menu; Arrange, Float All in Windows and there you can see they're all stacked on top of each other and then Window, Arrange, Consolidate All Windows. There is one more option there that's not available in the Application Bar and that is the option to Float in Window. You can see that just one of them floats while the other two are tabs. Let me come back up and click here. There it went the first time. Put in all in tabs. Now, up here we can look at various options that are available to us here. We can tile everything in a grid. You can see there's three windows open so they all tile. Let's open a new document; File, New Document. We'll just have a blank one like this. So now we've got four and if I choose that option there, it tiles the four windows. But we can resize them just by coming in, pressing down and dragging. Notice how you resize one; the others push themselves into that space. Other options here, you can Tile All Vertically like that. Here you can Tile All Horizontally. There are other views available to us here. You can come over and say Two Up like that and notice how these others are now in tiled windows. This one here is just by itself. Two Horizontally, Three Up where one is taking up half the page and the other two spread about and the fourth document is tabbed in with one of the others. Anyway, there are a number of options here. You can play around with them; Three Up Three Up, Four Up. Notice that Five Up and Six Up are there but they're dimmed because I don't have that many windows open at the moment. So let me just go back to Consolidate All, puts them all back as tabs and I think that's the best way to work so that's what I would recommend you do. So this is a nice, new feature. It makes navigating from one document that's open to another extremely easy and straightforward.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe InDesign CS4
Author: Brian White
SKU: 33978
ISBN: 1-935320-36-X
Release Date: 2009-03-31
Duration: 16.5 hrs / 222 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: Available on CD and Online University
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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