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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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  1. Working with tools

Selection Tools

Tool

How it works

Selection

Click and drag to move or resize objects.

Direct Selection

Click to select the content of an object. Click an anchor point on a path to activate it and work with it.

Page

Click a Page in your document. Options bar will present drop-down menu that allows you to change the size of the Page.

Gap

Click and drag in the space between two obejects to change the position of the gap between them. One object will increase in size as the other decreases in size.

Content Collector

Select an object to create a copy of it in the Conveyer. Objects in the Conveyer can be placed in your Document (or a different project) using the Content Placer.

Content Placer

With Content Placer Tool selected, choose an object in the Conveyer (using the Previous or Next buttons, if necessary.) Click or click and drag to place the object in your Document.

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