Opening Multiple Document Windows


Opening Multiple Document Windows

Like most programs, InDesign lets you open several documents at once. It also takes this concept one step farther by letting you open multiple windows simultaneously for individual documents. Earlier in this chapter, I recommended using the largest monitor you can get your mitts on. A large monitor makes this feature even more useful. By opening multiple windows, you can

  • Display two (or more) different pages or spreads at once and work on them at the same time. Well, you still have to work on them one at a time, but no navigation is required ‚ you have only to click within the appropriate window.

  • Display multiple magnifications of the same page. For example, you can work on a detail at high magnification in one window and display the entire page ‚ and see the results of your detail work ‚ at actual size in another window.

  • Display a master page in one window and a document page based on that master page in another window. When you change the master page, the change is reflected in the window in which the associated document page is displayed.

To open a new window for the active document, choose Window Arrange New Window. The new window is displayed in front of the original window. To show both windows at once, choose Window Arrange Tile. When you choose the Tile command, all open windows are resized and displayed side by side. (If you choose Window Arrange Cascade, all open windows are displayed stacked and staggered on top of each other. The frontmost document window is visible; the title bars of the other windows are visible above the frontmost document.)

When multiple windows are open, clicking on a window's title bar or anywhere within the window activates it. Also, the names of all open documents are displayed at the bottom of the Window menu. Choosing a document name from the View menu brings that document to the front. If multiple windows are open for a particular document, each window is displayed (they're displayed in the order in which you created them) in the Window menu.

Tip ‚  

When you open a document, it's displayed in the last window you used before you last saved it. Any other windows that were open when you saved the document are not saved.

Tip ‚  

To close all windows for the currently displayed document, press Shift+ z +W or Ctrl+Shift+W. To close all windows for all open documents, press Option+Shift+ z +W or Ctrl+Alt+Shift+W.




Adobe InDesign CS Bible
Adobe InDesign CS3 Bible
ISBN: 0470119381
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 344
Authors: Galen Gruman

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