Open indesign documents, Use the open command, Open recent document – Adobe InDesign CS4 User Manual
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USING INDESIGN CS4
Working with documents
Open InDesign documents
In general, you open document and template files the same way you do in other programs. When you open an
InDesign template, it opens as a new, untitled document by default. In Windows, document files use the extension
.indd, template files use the extension .indt, snippet files use the extension .idms, library files use the extension .indl,
interchange files use the extension .inx, markup files use the extension .idml, and book files use the extension .indb.
You can also use the File
> Open command to open files from earlier versions of InDesign, InDesign Interchange (.inx)
files, InDesign Markup (.idml) files, Adobe PageMaker 6.0 and later, QuarkXPress 3.3 and 4.1, and QuarkXPress
Passport 4.1 files. In addition, other software vendors may make plug-in software that lets you open other file formats.
To view additional information about an InDesign document, hold down Ctrl and choose Help
> About InDesign
(Windows) or hold down Command and choose InDesign
> About InDesign (Mac OS).
See also
Save backwards to the previous InDesign
About missing and mismatched color profiles
Hyphenation and spelling dictionaries
Use the Open command
1 Choose File
> Open and select one or more documents.
2 Do one of the following, and then click Open:
•
Select Normal (Windows) or Open Normal (Mac
OS) to open the original document or a
copy of a template.
•
Select Original (Windows) or Open Original (Mac
OS) to open an original document or template.
•
Select Copy (Windows) or Open Copy (Mac
OS) to open a copy of a document or template.
3 If a warning message appears telling you that the color settings in the document are different from the color settings
in the application, select an option, and click
OK.
Note: Color warning messages are off by default, but you can show warnings if you change the default settings in the
Color Settings dialog box (Edit > Color Settings.)
4 If a warning message appears telling you that the document contains missing fonts, do one of the following:
•
Click
OK. InDesign will automatically format the text with a substitute.
•
Click Find Font to search for and list fonts used throughout your document.
For more information on finding missing fonts, see “
5 If a warning message appears telling you that the document contains missing or modified links, use the Links panel
Update, restore, and replace links
Open recent document
❖
Choose File
> Open Recent, and select one of the documents you saved recently.
To specify how many recent documents are displayed, choose Edit > Preferences
> File Handling (Windows), or
InDesign
> Preferences
> File Handling, and then specify a number for Number Of Recent Items To Display. The
maximum number is 30.
Updated 18 June 2009