Ribbon - View

Quick reference

• 00:04 I wanna quickly review the View ribbon.
• 00:07 There are some great features on here.
• 00:08 We haven't quite hit them all yet, so let's go through them very quickly.
• 00:12 As an example, I have the Trade News newsletter on my screen.
• 00:16 I do have my Page Navigation checked.
• 00:19 I love having this open all the time.
• 00:22 So on my screen, you're always see it open.
• 00:24 I'd encourage you to get used to seeing it, as well.
• 00:26 First of all, Normal is selected.
• 00:28 So I'm viewing the normal view of a publication that I'm working on.
• 00:34 Now the Master Page, when I click that and
• 00:35 there is an entire lesson on the Master Page, so please watch that lesson.
• 00:39 But when I click it very quickly, you're seeing the background layer and
• 00:43 layout of the document.
• 00:44 Notice even my scratch area turned yellow.
• 00:46 This is so if I wanna put in page number or headers and footers,
• 00:49 this is where I would do that at work again, please watch that video.
• 00:53 I'm gonna go ahead and close the Master Page,
• 00:55 go back to my view ribbon right up here.
• 00:58 Now, the single page is selected.
• 00:59 That means I'm just viewing one single page at a time.
• 01:02 So page one and then page two, and then page three.
• 01:07 Well, look what happens when I hit the two page thread.
• 01:09 Go ahead and click that.
• 01:10 If we have facing pages like page two and three would open like a book and
• 01:15 face each other, that's where it shows up right here.
• 01:18 And I do like that feature, so I usually leave mine at two page spread.
• 01:22 But again, it depends on what I'm doing.
• 01:25 I'll click back on the single page.
• 01:26 Now when I hit Boundaries,
• 01:28 Guides and Fields, you're gonna see a lot change on my screen.
• 01:31 Boundaries are gonna outline all the text boxes.
• 01:33 Guides are going to put lines in the background,
• 01:36 a little grid that helps me align my objects and my pictures and then fields.
• 01:40 If this was a mail merge and I had fields showing up, they'd line up as well.
• 01:43 Now this looks busy and to me, it looks a little too busy.
• 01:48 So, it looks confusing.
• 01:49 So generally, I don't work with my guides on or my fields on.
• 01:53 I will leave my boundaries on.
• 01:54 But if I want a nice clean view, I will even turn those off.
• 01:58 The next one is Rulers.
• 01:59 Now if I uncheck my Rulers, my top and left margin ruler are gonna go away.
• 02:05 So, uncheck it and they are gone.
• 02:07 Check it and they are right there.
• 02:09 Keep in mind that these Rulers, this top corner,
• 02:11 you can move these Rulers where ever you want or need them.
• 02:14 So, y ou're not stuck with where they are.
• 02:17 So, feel free to move those around.
• 02:18 But generally, yes, I have my rulers on.
• 02:20 Turn Page Navigation off?
• 02:22 Absolutely not, I leave mine on all the time.
• 02:25 And Scratch Area, let me check the whole page here.
• 02:28 Scratch Area, this is where you can land pictures until you're ready to use them in
• 02:32 the left and right Scratch Area.
• 02:34 Now, watch what happens when I turn it off.
• 02:36 Nothing.
• 02:37 It's still the same, I can still use it.
• 02:39 So, I'm not quite sure why that's there.
• 02:41 But anyway, I'll go ahead and leave that on.
• 02:44 Graphics Manager, this is a task pane on the right and
• 02:47 this is gonna show you all the graphics in your entire publication.
• 02:50 Now I have mine clicked to Show Thumbnail.
• 02:53 When I turn it off, now I have to know the name of the graphics.
• 02:56 No, no, no.
• 02:57 Hit the Show T humbnail, leave those graphics on there and keep working.
• 03:02 Again, we do have an entire lesson on that feature as well.
• 03:05 And of course, Baselines.
• 03:06 Baselines are different than Guides.
• 03:08 Guides put the grid on here, Baselines just put the lines for the text,
• 03:12 to line up text.
• 03:13 So I'm gonna turn that off, as well.
• 03:15 This next section is zoom.
• 03:17 I can zoom to 100% with one click.
• 03:19 I could click back to whole page and see my entire page.
• 03:22 I can click the Page Width, if I want.
• 03:24 I can click on an object and then tell zoom to Selected Object.
• 03:28 Notice every time I made one of these changes, this measurement changed.
• 03:33 But I can also click there and type my own measurement if I want and go to 800%,
• 03:37 which i didn't intend to do.
• 03:39 But very quickly, hit Whole Page.
• 03:42 Now right over here on the left, we have Arrange All and Cascade.
• 03:44 If I were to click those right now, it's gonna kind of ruin this video.
• 03:47 So I'm not going to touch this, but I would encourage you to.
• 03:50 If you have multiple publications open though, this switch windows.
• 03:53 You could switch to your other blank publication or
• 03:56 come right back to Switch Windows and go back to the one you're working on.
• 03:59 That's it for the View ribbon.
• 04:01 Work on that.
• 04:02 Practice it.
• 04:02 Get good at it.

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