Adobe CS5.5 (v.7.5) Mac Upgrade NO 65103437 User Manual

Important techniques

The previous sections have helped you 

learn your way around 

Adobe InDesign CS5. Now it’s time for some techniques that will get 

you laying out pages faster and better than ever before. Whether you 

need to create colors and gradients, format text automatically, anchor 

an object inside a text flow, or just find some tips for getting more 

efficient with InDesign, you’ll find the answers in this section.

The Selection tool and the Direct 

Selection tool are two of the most 

important tools in InDesign, so it’s 

helpful to know how to access them 

quickly. Here are some tips:

 ■ You can temporarily access the 

Selection tool or Direct Selection 

tool (whichever was most recently 

selected) by pressing Command 

(Mac OS) or Ctrl (Windows) when 

any other tool is selected.

 ■ When editing text with the Type 

tool, you can switch to the Selec-

tion tool by pressing the Esc key.

 ■ You can double-click a text frame 

with the Selection tool or the 

Direct Selection tool to switch to 

the Type tool. If the text frame 

contains text, the blinking text 

insertion point is displayed where 

you double-click.

 ■ Double-click a graphic frame with 

the Selection tool to select the 

graphic inside the frame. Double-

click again to reselect the frame.

 ■ You can select “through” an 

object—selecting a frame or path 

behind another object—by holding 

down Command (Mac OS) or Ctrl 

(Windows) while clicking with the 

Selection tool.

 ■ If you choose the Selection tool 

and then click any object that’s 

part of a group, the entire group 

is selected. To select an individual 

object that’s part of a group, dou-

ble-click the object with the Selec-

tion tool. Then press Esc to select 

the group again.

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