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Duplicating objects and making grids

Duplicating objects and making grids - InDesign Tutorial

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Duplicating objects and making grids

- [Instructor] There are more than a dozen ways to duplicate something in InDesign. My favorite way to copy an object is to select it, like this frame here, and then hold down the Option or the Alt key and drag. Now in this case, I'd like my duplicate to be exactly lined up with the first. So let's delete that by pressing the Delete key on the keyboard and then try this again. This time, instead of just holding down the Alt or Option key, let's add the Shift key. Option + Shift + Drag or Alt + Shift + Drag on Windows. When you do that, it duplicates it and keeps it in perfect vertical or horizontal alignment, and when you see those little green smart guides, it means that the space between our new object and the one to the left of it, matches the space between the other frames. Now, another way to get a copy is just to use copy and paste, right? But there's an even better paste feature that you should know about.…

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