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Moving objects around

Moving objects around - InDesign Tutorial

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Moving objects around

- [Instructor] We've been putting text and graphics onto this page and it's kind of a mess. So let's go ahead and clean it up. The main tool that we're going to use to move objects around our page is the selection tool. That's the first tool in the tool panel. The selection tool let's you move objects around your page and even resize or rotate them. First, let's close the links panel by clicking on this little icon over here in the dock. Okay, now if you select this object here, this text frame, you can move it simply by dragging it and you can rotate it by clicking just outside any of the four corners and dragging. In this case, I don't want that frame so let's delete it by pressing the delete key on the keyboard. Now, let's select this logo down here and move it. And you'll notice that as you drag it around you see all these colored lines flashing on and off. These are called smart guides and they're a great way to make…

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