Change interface preferences – Adobe InDesign CC 2015 User Manual
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Click the right mouse button.
Note: (Mac OS) If you don’t have a two-button mouse, you can display a context menu by pressing the Control key as you
click with the mouse.
Change Interface preferences
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Choose Edit > Preferences > Interface (Windows) or InDesign > Preferences > Interface (Mac OS).
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Choose the settings you want to specify, and click OK.
Tool Tips
Tool tips appear when you hold the mouse pointer over interface items such as tools in the toolbar and
options in the Control panel. Choose None to turn off tool tips.
Show Thumbnails On Place
When you place a graphic, a thumbnail of the image appears in the loaded graphics cursor.
Similarly, a thumbnail of the first few lines of text appears in the loaded text cursor. Deselect this option if you don’t
want thumbnails to appear when placing graphics or text.
Show Transformation Values
When you’re creating, sizing, or rotating an object, the cursor displays the [x,y]
coordinates, width and height, or rotation information.
Enable Multi-Touch Gestures
Select this option to allow Windows and Mac OS multi-touch mouse gestures to work in
InDesign. For example, when you use the Magic Mouse in Mac OS, the swipe gesture scrolls up or down or moves to
the previous or next page or spread, and the rotate gesture rotates the spread.
Highlight Object Under Selection Tool
Select this option to highlight the frame edges of objects when the direct
selection tool is moved over it.
Floating Tools Panel
Specify whether the toolbar appears as a single column, double column, or single row.
Auto-Collapse Icon Panels
When this option is selected, clicking the document window closes the open panel
automatically.
Auto-Show Hidden Panels
When you hide panels by pressing Tab, holding the mouse pointer over the side of the
document window temporarily reveals the panels if this option is selected. If this option is not selected, you must press
Tab again to display panels.
Open Documents As Tabs
When this option is deselected, documents you create or open appear as floating windows
rather than tabbed windows.
Enable Floating Document Window Docking
If this option is selected, you can dock floating documents with each
other as tabbed windows. If this option is deselected, floating document windows aren’t docked with other document
windows, unless you hold down Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) while dragging.
Hand Tool
To control whether to greek text and images when you scroll a document, drag the Hand Tool slider to the
desired level of performance versus quality.
Live Screen Drawing
Select an option to determine whether the image redraws as you drag an object. If Immediate is
selected, the image redraws while you drag. If Never is selected, dragging an image moves only the frame, and then
image is moved when you release the mouse button. If Delayed is selected, the image redraws only if you pause before
dragging. Delayed offers the same behavior as in InDesign CS4.
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