From the course: Adobe Certified Professional - Illustrator Cert Prep

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It is important to be familiar with the terminology of the Illustrator interface so I'm going to walk you through the most important segments or elements in this lesson. First of all we have the main menu which we can find here on the top. Now if you are on PC it will look a little bit different because you won't see the Illustrator here on the left it will start with the file menu but on a Mac under the illustrator menu we will find the preferences or settings this is actually something that on PC you will find under the edit menu at the bottom near the keyboard shortcut setting. Below the file menu we have this section called the control bar so this is something you can find in the window menu if you check control it's going to be visible but you can obviously turn it off if you don't want to see it. There is the properties panel here on the right which serves roughly the same purpose as the control bar so if you require more vertical space on your screen perhaps you might want to…

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