From the course: Adobe Certified Professional - InDesign Cert Prep

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Reusing contents

Reusing contents

We already discussed a lot of things about how to work with text frames and graphic frames however there was one tool that we haven't used so far and this might be useful to know for the exam and this is called the content collector and content placer tools. It can almost be considered a single tool which has two states so first you would want to collect things and then you want to place them. similar to a more advanced version of the pasteboard so we can use the collector to click on images let's just collect some of these images here and you can see it's being placed here we can also collect text maybe this caption or that caption and that this map and then I can maybe go on to the last page of this document and then I can switch to the place option or just simply press B on the keyboard with B you can switch between collection and placement. So once I'm in the placement state I can choose which item I want to place by using the right and left arrows on the keyboard so I can very…

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