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| Control Panel | Displays options for the currently selected tool. |
| Essentials | The default workspace when you first open InDesign. |
| Grids | Can be used to aid in alignment and design principles. |
| Guides | Can create these using rulers to measure components in a design. |
| Interface | The appearance of the blank space color in InDesign. Can change between four default shades of gray / black. |
| Menus Bar | Gives you access to a wide range of functions and extra commands. These include File, Edit, Object, Type, Select, Effect, View, & Window. |
| Navigating InDesign Documents | Using different workspaces and shortcuts to move through different projects or documents in InDesign. |
| Pages | Separating different components of a design into pages, like in a book or magazine. |
| Panels | A group of related commands and options. |
| Pasteboard | The area outside of the page where items, colors, swatches, etc. etc. can be stored. |
| Properties Panel | This will change based on the tool you are using and give you a variety of useful options and commands. |
| Resetting the Workspace | Putting a specific workspace back to its default settings after making changes to it, such as closing the layers and pages panel. |
| Saving custom workspaces | In InDesign you can create a custom workspace and save it so you can use it over and over. |
| Shortcuts and Menus | Using shortcuts and menus to aid in design work. |
| Showing, Hiding, Docking, & Nesting Panels | The ability to move, hide, and reveal different panels within a given InDesign workspace. |
| Spelling | Making sure all spelling is correct. Can use the built in spell checker to aid in spelling. |
| Spreads | A set of pages viewed together, such as with facing pages. |
| Story Editor Display | Displays text from a text box as if you were writing in a simple text editor. |
| Tabbed Documents | Having multiple documents or projects open at the same time in InDesign. Can switch between the document tabs beneath the control panel. |
| Toolbar | Contains tools for creating and editing images, artwork, page elements, and so on. Related tools are grouped. |
| Units & Increments | A specific unit of measurement that InDesign uses such as pixels, inches, picas, or points. |
| Workspace | The way the panels and tools appear in InDesign. Different workspaces are best used for different types of work. |
