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Duplicating objects and making grids

Duplicating objects and making grids - InDesign Tutorial

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Duplicating objects and making grids

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- [Instructor] There are more than a dozen ways to duplicate something in InDesign. My favorite way to copy an object is to select it with a selection tool and then hold down the option or the alt key and drag. But in this case, I'd like my duplicate to be exactly lined up with the first, so let's delete that by pressing the delete key on my keyboard and try it again. This time, instead of holding down just alt or option, let's add the shift key. So option shift drag or alt shift drag on windows. When you do that, it duplicates it and keeps it in perfect vertical or horizontal alignment. Then when you see those little green smart guides appear, it means that the space between our new object and the one to the left matches the space between the other two frames. Now, another way to get a copy is just to copy and paste it, right, but there's an even better paste feature that you should know about. Check this out. First…

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