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Understand layout parts

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Understand layout parts

- When you're working with layouts in Layout Mode, you may notice that they're broken up into different sections. These are what are called layout parts. Now you'll notice over on the left hand side of the screen I've got Header on the top, Footer on the bottom and Body right here. Now if you're not seeing the same thing as I am, if you'll look way down on the bottom left hand corner, you'll notice here click to display the part labels horizontally or vertically. You can toggle between them. So this way you've got the part names that are legible but this way you can kind of keep them out of the way and see the abbreviations instead. So what are layout parts? Well let's start with talking about what we need here. So first of all you have to have at least one layout part, it doesn't have to be the body but it has to be a layout part. Otherwise you don't have a layout anymore. And by default every layout that's created will have a header, body, and footer, much like you see here. And…

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