From the course: InDesign Secrets
178 How to hide the content grabber donut - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
178 How to hide the content grabber donut
- I love InDesign. You know I do, but there are some features that just drive me bonkers. For example, the doughnut. You know what I'm talking about? The doughnut? When you move your cursor on top of an image and you see this doughnut sitting in the middle. You might call it the bagel or the big "O." I think that's supposed to be a photo focus thing, like in a camera. Whatever the case, it's trying to be helpful, but it can be crazy making. Because if you click and drag by accident, you move the image inside the frame. Now I didn't even select that image, I didn't even select the frame, it just moved. So if I'm coming over here and I click and drag, it moves the image inside of there. Click and drag and it moves it and that's very frustrating. Let's undo that, CMD Z or Ctrl Z a few times to get it back to the way it's supposed to be. Ok, so I don't like that doughnut and maybe you don't either and you can get rid of it by going to the View menu, coming down to Extras, and turning off the Content Grabber. That's the real name for this thing. If you choose Hide Content Grabber it goes away. Now when I hover on top of images it's not there at all, and better yet, it doesn't take away any functionality. I can still select the image inside that frame. All I have to do is double click. Double click on the frame and I select the image inside the frame and I can move it around. Come over here and I double click and now I've got the image inside the frame. If I want to go back to select the frame, all I have to do is double click again. It goes back and it selects the frame. One more time, double click to select the image, and double click again, or, here's the shortcut, hit the ESC key. Double click to go in, ESC comes out. Sure this is just a little thing, but my goodness I am telling you learning how to disable that Content Grabber doughnut thing, saved my sanity.
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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