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Adobe InDesign

A professional page-layout tool for books, magazines, posters, and publications.

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Common

Page tool
Gap tool
Temporarily select Zoom In tool
Convert Direction Point tool
Type on a Path tool
Line tool
Rectangle Frame tool
Frame Grid tool (horizontal)
Frame Grid tool (vertical)
Shear tool
Measure tool
Gradient Feather tool
Toggle Fill and Stroke
Swap Fill and Stroke
Apply Color
Apply Gradient
Select all guides
Normal
Strikethrough
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All caps on/off
Small caps on/off
Superscript
Subscript
⌘⇧⌥=
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Auto leading
⌘⇧⌥a
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Clear all manual kerning and reset tracking to 0
Align to grid on/off
⌘⇧⌥g
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Auto-hyphenate on/off
⌘⇧⌥h
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Select current line
Redraw screen
Activate the Go To command
Cycle through units of measurement
⌘⇧⌥u
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Replace selection with Change To text
Turn on Overprint preview
⌘⇧⌥y
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Efficient Zoom & Pan

Drag mouse to Zoom
Fit Page in view
Fit Spread in View

Formatting

Decrease/Increase font size
Adjust Leading size
Flush Left
Flush Right
CReturn
Justify
Bold
Italic
Underline
Tracking
Kerning
Adjust baseline shift
⇧⌥↑
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Panels

Swatches
Stroke
Paragraph styles
Character styles
Text Wrap
Links
Character
Control
Object Styles
Paragraph Styles
Index
Tables
Scripts
⌘⌥F11
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Text wrap

File Menu

New File
Open File
Close window
Open in bridge
Place
Save As
Print
Page Setup
Package
⌘⇧⌥P
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Quit Application
Export

Edit Menu

Redo
Paste
Paste Without formatting
Select all
Deselect All
Find/Change
Find Next
Check Spelling
Preferences
Paste in Place
⌘⇧⌥V
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Paste Into
Duplicate
⌘⇧⌥D
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Edit in Story Editor
Check Out
Check In
Update Content
Quick apply

Layout Menu

Go to Page
Add Page

Type Menu

Tabs
Glyphs
⇧⌥F11
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Forced link break
Hidden Characters

Object Menu

Transform again
Group
Ungroup
Compound Path
Drop Shadow
CReturn Content
Fill frame proportionlly
⌘⇧⌥C
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Bring front
Send back
Text Frame Options

View Menu

Smart Guides
Guides
High Quality Display
Text Threads
Frame edges
Rulers
Actual Size
200% size
400% size
50% size
Set Presentation background to black
Set Presentation background to gray
Set Presentation background to white
Show Cyan plate
⌘⇧⌥1
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Show Magenta plate
⌘⇧⌥2
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Show Yellow plate
⌘⇧⌥3
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Show Black Plate
⌘⇧⌥4
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Show 1st spot plate
⌘⇧⌥5
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Show 2nd spot plate
⌘⇧⌥6
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Show 3rd spot plate
⌘⇧⌥7
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Show all plates
⌘⇧⌥~
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Tools

Selection tool
Direct selection tool
magic wind tool
Lasso tool
Pen tool
Blob brush tool
Convert anchor point tool
Type tool
Line segment tool
Rectangle tool
Ellipse tool
Paintbrush tool
Pencil tool
Rotate tool
Reflect tool
Scale tool
Warp tool
Width tool
Free Transform tool
Shape builder tool
Perspective grid tool
Perspective selection tool
Symbol sprayer tool
Column graph tool
Mesh tool
Gradient tool
Eyedropper tool
Blend tool
Zoom tool
Hand tool
Scissors tool
Eraser tool
Slice tool
Live paint selection tool
Live Paint selection tool