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All shortcuts are listed in parenthesis after the tool name. There are many more, and if there isn’t a shortcut for a tool that you regularly use, you can make a custom shortcut (I’ll post a how-to later this week)! For a complete list of Adobe shortcuts, click here. Hit the “ R” key at any time to switch to the Rotate tool. Hit the “ V” key at any time to switch to the Selection tool. Hit the “ T” key at any time to switch to the Text tool. InDesign makes switching tools so easy – the only problem is remembering them.
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#INDESIGN SHORTCUTS UPDATE#
If the changes are not reflected in your InDesign document, click on the link in the Links Panel and click on the Update icon (see below). The changes should automatically update in InDesign. Once you make changes, save and close the file. If you would like open the file in a different program, when you right click on the link, select Edit With and choose the correct program. The linked file will automatically open in the default application for that file (based on its file extension and your default settings). If you are working with placed files (links) in InDesign and would like to make a change to that linked file, right click on the link (or select the link in the Links Panel and right click) and choose Edit Original. The first click will select the top object/frame, the second click will select the one immediately behind it, the third click will select the one behind that, and so on. It is easy to select the top object or frame, but selecting objects or frames behind it is not so easy (for most people, this involved constantly sending objects to the back, bringing them to the front, etc.) Thankfully, there is a shortcut: Holding down CTRL/CMD and clicking the frame will allow you to cycle through the objects and frames. When designing pages in InDesign, sometimes it is necessary to place objects on top of each other (like placing a text box over an image).
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Selecting objects or frames behind other objects/frames