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Managing layers

Managing layers - InDesign Tutorial

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Managing layers

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Now another very useful shortcut that you should know is that you can isolate layers both their visibility and their locked status so the way this works is that instead of just clicking on the eye icon to turn a layer on and off let's just say we do this with the text layer we can also hold down alt or option key and click on the eye icon so this is going to show only that layer and hide everything else. So this could be a very useful way to again quickly check what's on a layer so instead of turning off all the other ones one by one you can just alt or option click on the eye icon of the layer that you want to check and then you can do the same shortcut to reveal the other layers once more. Now if you want to lock a layer the best thing to do is to click here next to the eye icon so that's going to add the lock that means you won't be able to interact with any of the objects on that layer anymore so for instance I can just demonstrate this to you if I alt click on the background…

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