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Adobe InDesign 2025 Basics | Windows 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

Modification and Navigation Tools

Tool

How it works

Note

Make sure a text box is selected. Choose the Note tool. In the text box, click where you would like to add a note. In the Notes panel, type to add a Note. A Note Anchor indicating the presence of a Note will appear in the text box. Notes and Note Anchors will not appear in an exported PDF.

Eyedropper

Option-click an object to select a color or gradient. Click a new object to apply the selected color or gradient to the new object.

Color Theme

Click an object or image to create a color theme based on that object or image. In the Color Theme control box, click the Add theme to swatches button to add the theme to your Swatches panel. (Rename Color Theme in Swatches panel, if necessary.)

Measure

Click and drag to measure the distance between two points. Measurement will diplay in Info panel. Click plus sign in Info panel to change the unit of measurement.

Hand

Click and drag to move the view of the project.

Zoom

Click to zoom in on a specific area of the Document. Option-click to zoom out.

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