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Adobe InDesign 2025 Basics | macOS Edition
  • Introduction
  • Setting up your project
    • Connecting to Your Class Folder
    • Creating a Project Folder
    • Opening InDesign
    • Creating a New Document
    • Opening an Existing InDesign Project
    • Saving Your Project
  • Working with text
    • Creating a Text Box
    • Moving a Text Box
    • Resizing a Text Box
    • Deleting a Text Box
    • Using Overset Text Button
    • Formatting Text
    • Character Formatting Controls
    • Paragraph Formatting Controls
  • Working with tools
    • Selection Tools
    • Drawing and Type Tools
    • Transformation Tools
    • Modification and Navigation Tools
  • Working with images
    • Adding an Image to Your Document
    • Resizing an Image and Its Frame
    • Resizing and Repositioning an Image in Its Frame
    • Changing Object Stacking Order
    • Wrapping Text to an Image
    • Deleting an Image
  • Working with shapes, strokes, and color
    • Creating a Shape
    • Creating a Line
    • Creating a Custom Color
    • Creating a Gradient
    • Changing the Fill Color of a Shape
    • Changing the Color of a Stroke
    • Changing the Weight of a Stroke
    • Changing the Stroke Type
    • Removing a Stroke
  • Working with layers
    • Selecting a Layer
    • Locking or Unlocking a Layer
    • Changing Layer Visibility
    • Creating a New Layer
    • Moving a Layer
    • Deleting a Layer
  • Exporting a PDF
    • Exporting a PDF
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  • Locking a layer
  • Unlocking a layer

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  1. Working with layers

Locking or Unlocking a Layer

Locking a layer

  1. Click the Layers tab (on right) to expand the Layers panel.

  2. In the Layers panel, select the layer you want to lock.

  3. Click in the empty square to the left of the layer name. A lock icon will appear in the space.

Unlocking a layer

  1. Click the Layers tab (on right) to expand the Layers panel.

  2. In the Layers panel, click the lock icon to the left of the layer name. The lock icon will disappear.

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