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Selections - InDesign Tutorial

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Selections

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Using selections in InDesign are much more straightforward and simple compared to applications like Adobe Photoshop and we actually already covered all of the things that you need to know about making selections but just to recap the most important tools that you want to work with are the Selection tool and Direct Selection tool. Now when would you want to use one over the other? but most of the time selection tool is the one that you want to use to select the frames that you created in InDesign while with direct selection tool you can select usually the contents of frames. So if I click on this image frame or graphic frame immediately I selected the contents instead of the container but it's good to know that you can also switch between what is currently selected by using the object menu select sub menu here you can see the container and the content option so I can switch quickly to container instead of having the content selected. Another reason why you would want to use the direct…

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