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Choose a better workspace for editing

Choose a better workspace for editing - InDesign Tutorial

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Choose a better workspace for editing

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- [Instructor] Before we go any farther, I want to make a couple of important changes that will really help when it comes to editing my InDesign documents. First, I'm going to look inside the workspace menu up here in the options bar, in the upper right corner of the screen, and I'm going to choose advanced. Now, I know that sounds scary, but you don't need to be an advanced user to use the advanced workspace. It just means you want to see all of these extra panels over here in the dock, along the right side of the window. So yes, I know you're just learning the essentials right now, but believe me, you're going to want all of these great features in InDesign, and in this course, I'm going to be working in the advanced workspace, so I highly recommend that you do too. This workspace also gives me all the formatting features I need right here at the top of the screen in what's called the control panel. You'll notice that this workspace also hid the properties panel over on the right…

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