F8
1. Item tool-Grouping tool- Use Ctrl+G, for ungrouping-Use Ctrl+U2. Hand tool- Shows cursor and hand- Use alt+mouse movements for scanning through the page. Shows cursor in the textbox only.
3. Rotation tool-Used to rotate text and picture boxes
4. Zoom tool-Short cut is ctrl+1 for zoom in and ctrl+0 for zoom out, for further options try ctrl+alt+mouse scroll key.
If using only mouse- use alt for zoom out.
5. Text box-click F9. Use columns, leading, kerning, rotation, allignment, font size etc.
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7. Different types of picture boxes. Use ctrl+E for importing picture. Use ctrl+alt+shift+ > or < to increase or decrease the size of the picture. Similarly for adjusting the font size.
8. Cut out tool-Used for making cutouts
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10. Line tool-Used for drawing vertical and horizontal lines. Use F9 for different shapes and sizes.
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14. (Last two tools) Linking tool: Used for linking matter hanging out of box.
F7-Used for showing grid lines
Alt+VB- Used for showing baseline grid (grey horizontal lines)Ctrl+R- Used for showing ruler
Ctrl+K- Delete
Ctrl+Z-Undo
Kerning- Reducing or increasing distance between alphabets- Use Ctrl+shift+alt+ : (semicolon)
Use Ctrl+shift+alt+ " (quotes)
Leading- Used for increasing or reducing the size between two lines-Use Ctrl+shift+alt+ { (open brackets)
Use Ctrl+shift+alt+ } (close bracket)
We are currently using version 4.1
F12
Basically used for giving colour to text and picture boxes.
Used for gradient colouring also. At max, two colours can be used with different percentages.
We have a frame (Use Ctrl+B for options like box, text, frame and runaround)
Runaround–Select item or auto image and a particular size to define runaround.
You can also use Ctrl+M for columns, text inset, gutter width, text angle, text skew and vertical allignment adjustments.
F11
Stylesheet tool, used to define stylesheet (Define size of headline, strapline, date/place, byline, caption, body text, etc.)
Ctrl+shift+F–for formats, tabs, rules. Used for drop caps, first line indent, etc.
Special Thanks To-
Sumedha Mahorey
Sr Features Writer
Infomedia 18.
Sr Features Writer
Infomedia 18.
