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Moving objects around

Moving objects around - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Quick Start

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, and that's the first tool at the top of the Tool panel. Some people call it the black arrow tool. The Selection tool let's me move objects around my page, resize them, and even rotate them. But first, I'm going to close my Links panel by coming over here and clicking on the little Links icon over here on the right side of the screen. That way, I can see my page better. Okay, now, if I click on an object, like this text frame here, I can move it around simply by dragging it, and I can rotate it by clicking outside any of the four corners and then dragging. Now, in this case, I actually don't want that frame at all, so I'll delete it by pressing the Delete key on my keyboard. Now, I'll select this graphic over here, this logo, and I'll drag that around my page. You'll…

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