Layout View: Navigating, Zooming, Etc.

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Layout View: Navigating, Zooming, Etc.

The following is how you navigate the Layout view.

Zooming In & Out

Using the tool:

Select the Zoom tool zoom tool and:

To zoom in: In the Layout, click on something you want to see larger on-screen.
To zoom out: Hold Option (Mac) or Alt (Windows) and click anywhere on-screen.

Using keystrokes:

Zoom in: Command–Plus(+) (Mac) or Control–Plus(+) (Windows)
Zoom out: Command–Minus(-) (Mac) or Control–Minus(-) (Windows)

Scrolling Around a Page

Using the tool:

Select the Hand tool hand tool and drag on the document to scroll.

Using a keystroke:

While in the Type tool type tool, you can hold Option (Mac) or Alt (Windows) and drag on the document to scroll. This way you don’t need to use the Hand tool hand tool.

Viewing Other Pages

Besides scrolling to view other pages, at the bottom left of the screen you can click the pages menu button button to open page menu and choose a different page (shown below).

change pages using menu

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