About the navigator panel, Use context menus, Change interface preferences – Adobe InDesign User Manual
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Tool Tips
Show Thumbnails On Place
Show Transformation Values
Enable Multi-Touch Gestures
Highlight Object Under Selection Tool
Floating Tools Panel
Auto-Collapse Icon Panels
Auto-Show Hidden Panels
2. Specify options that you want to display or hide, and then click OK.
About the Navigator panel
If you’re familiar with previous versions of InDesign, you may wonder why you can’t find the Navigator panel. The Navigator panel does not appear
in InDesign CS5. The Power Zoom feature effectively replaces the Navigator panel. See Use power zoom.
Use context menus
Unlike the menus that appear at the top of your screen, context-sensitive menus display commands related to the active tool or selection. You can
use context menus as a quick way to choose commonly used commands.
1. Position the pointer over the document, object, or panel.
2. Click the right mouse button.
(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
1. Choose Edit > Preferences > Interface (Windows) or InDesign > Preferences > Interface (Mac OS).
2. Choose the settings you want to specify, and click OK.
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.
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.
When you’re creating, sizing, or rotating an object, the cursor displays the [x,y] coordinates, width and height, or
rotation information.
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.
Select this option to highlight the frame edges of objects when the direct selection tool is moved over it.
Specify whether the toolbar appears as a single column, double column, or single row.
When this option is selected, clicking the document window closes the open panel automatically.
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.
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