Using InDesign Manual 2025

WORKING WITH PALETTES Note: To do all exercises, the Walsworth Enhancements from Support Download must be installed on each workstation, and the Using InDesign Activities folder must be copied to your desktop from Support Download. Palettes are floating windows that allow various tasks to be performed easily. Practice manipulating InDesign’s palettes by following these steps. 1. Open InDesign from the desktop icon or program list on your workstation.

2. Either click the Walsworth menu > New Spread or use the New Spread icon on the Walsworth Control Center. 3. Click and hold on the Swatches tab, then drag the swatches palette to the desktop. 4. Do the same for Stroke and Object Styles . 5. Click on the thick blue or gray frame bar at the top of each of the floating palettes, and drag over

to the palette space until it barely touches the bottom of a palette or palette group. Release the mouse button. The palette will dock to the bottom of the above palette. 6. Dock the remaining two palettes you moved earlier. 7. Now click on the tab on

each of the palettes and drag them directly back in to their palette groups. Notice how each palette reassigns itself to the palette group.

8. Choose Window > Workspace > Reset xxxx to clean up the palettes, again. 9. Double-click on the top of the Toolbox to change its mode to single column, then horizontal and then back to the two-column default.

LESSON 2

ACTIVITIES

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