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Layers are an absolutely wonderful feature in InDesign and I presume you know how to use them, but I'm going to show you some little tips that'll make you more efficient. First of all I am going to switch over to my wineries page and if I open my layers palette, in fact I'll just drag it out onto the screen here so that it's permanently out here. You can see that I got multiple layers, I kept the photos in one layer, I keep the text in one layer, I keep an eye on some layers. So if I hit Control or Command A to select all you can see these little icons represent the selected items. If I just come over and click on one item you can see it's represented by the blue square here on the photos layer. Now, let's look at some tips, first of all if you just want to turn the layers off you can click individually like this, turn them off. You probably know, but did you know that you can just press and drag down like this, turns them all off, press and drag, turn them all on. Then it works exactly the same with the lock, drag down like that, locks them all, drag up like that unlocks them all. If you want to just view one layer, if you click on it, with holding the alt or option key down it turns all the layers off. Do it again and it toggles them all back on again. Now if I have this selected here you can see its on maps, I really want this as add so I want it on adds. Now if adds is locked like this and I drag this down I'm going to get the no-no sign and that's not going to let me do it, but there is an override. If you hold down the Control or Command key and do it like that then it moves it directly to that, it's locked now I can't select it but if I click on it now you can see it's actually moved it to the adds one. They're both on the adds now, all my adds are there, hold down the option key and there I can check that all the adds are on that particular layer. Now you can copy things from one layer to the other, let me select this photograph here and if I hold down the Control Alt or Command option key I can drag it up here. Let me just drag it to the symbols layer there so if I move it over here like this you can see this is on symbols and that one is one photos. So those are some great little tips just for moving items about your layers. Let's look at one more option, I'm going to select everything on this page here, like this and I'm going to copy it and I got a blank document open here, no, that's the wrong one, from title, that's the right one there and I'm going to paste it in here. Control or Command V like that and paste them out, notice that they're all on the same layer, it's just merged everything down here. So let me delete that. If I come down here and choose remember paste layers or paste remembers layers and then paste it in, watch what happens here. Not only does it paste them all on different layers it creates these layers here on the new document and it maintains the integrity of all the layers that you previously had. So those are a few simple things with layers and I think you will enjoy using them, I think it'll speed you up quite a bit.