Quark to InDesignCS3 Conversion Guide - InDesign User Group

Managing Panels
• The Window menu contains
commands for showing/hiding
individual panels.
• You can dock a panel to the edge
of your screen by dragging its tab
to the left or right edge, and you
can combine panels into vertical
stacks that move as single units.
Clicking the icon or label of a
docked panel expands the panel;
clicking the tab of an open panel
collapses it.
• You can dock individual panels
as well as grouped panels. To
move an entire panel group, drag
its title bar. As you drag a panel
or group along the edge of your
screen, a blue line is displayed to
indicate where the panel/group
will be placed when you release
the mouse.
• To move a panel to another
group, drag the panel’s tab
onto the target group’s title bar.
• To snap a panel to another
panel, drag a panel’s tab to
the lower edge of another panel.
When the lower edge of the other
panel is highlighted, release the
mouse button.
• To change the size of a panel, drag
its lower right corner in Mac OS or
any of its corners in Windows.
• To rearrange or separate panels in
a group, drag a panel’s tab. Dragging
a panel out of an existing
group creates a standalone panel.
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• To bring a panel to the front
of its group, click the panel’s
tab, choose the panel name from
the Window menu, or press the
panel’s keyboard shortcut.
• Click the title bar or the Collapse
To Icons/Expand Dock arrows of
a stack of panels to alternately
collapse and expand the panels.
• When icons are displayed in a
stack, drag the resize bar in the
title bar to make the stack wider
or narrower. Drag the resize bar
toward the edge of the screen to
collapse a stack and display only
icons. When you widen a stack,
icons and labels are displayed.
• When the insertion point
is not blinking, press Tab to
show/hide all panels; press
Shift+Tab to show/hide all panels
except the Tools panel and the
Control panel.
many InDesign controls are available in
panels. InDesign offers several features for
organizing panels, including the abilities to
dock panels to the edge of the screen and to
collapse and expand docked panels.