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USING INDESIGN CS4

Workspace

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

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.

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 the Control key while dragging.

Customize menus and keyboard shortcuts

Customize menus

Hiding and colorizing menu commands is a way to remove menu clutter and emphasize commands you frequently
use. Note that hiding menu commands simply removes the menu command from view; it doesn’t disable any features.
At any time, you can view hidden commands by selecting the Show All Menu Items command at the bottom of a menu,
or you can choose Window

> Workspace > Show Full Menus to show all the menus for the selected workspace. You

can include customized menus in workspaces you save.

You can customize the main menu, context menus, and panel menus. Context menus appear when you right-click
(Windows) or Control-click (Mac

OS) an area. Panel menus appear when you click the icon in the upper right of a

panel.

Note: If you select a different workspace, such as Getting Started, some menu commands are hidden. To display menu
commands, choose Show All Menu Items at the bottom of the menu, or choose a different workspace, such as Advanced.

See also

Save a custom workspace

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Create a custom menu set

1 Choose Edit > Menus.

Updated 18 June 2009