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Hi there! In this lesson you're 
going to learn the different panels,  

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and navigating through the layout of 
Adobe InDesign, so let's get started.

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So let's hit ‘create new’, and since our 
objective is to learn more about the workspace,  

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we won't pay heed to the settings of 
the document here, so just hit create.

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InDesign's workspace is divided into six segments.

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On top, you'll find the menu, which is a 
pretty common occurrence, in any software,  

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through which you can access the 
different features InDesign offers.

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On the left, is the toolbar to help you 
achieve the maximum, from your document,  

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so you find tools like, the text tool, the shape 
tool in the form of rectangle, and ellipse tool.

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You find the pen tool, the gradient tool, and 
much more that you'll learn in days to come.

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All these tools will help you in 
designing those lovely layouts,  

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drawings, books, posters, and much more.

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You see this button with 
arrows facing to the right,  

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once you click it, it will expand 
the toolbar for a better view.

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Click the button again, and 
it will retract to one column.

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Right below the button, you'll 
find a line, more like a divider.  

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Click, hold, and drag it out to the paste 
board, so yes, you can detach the toolbar,  

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and this gray area around the 
document is called the 'paste board.'

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You can put objects, that you 
might need while you design,  

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on the paste board, but that will not be printed.

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Let's plug the toolbar back 
to its original position.

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On the right, you'll find panels, 
and much like the toolbar, these  

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panels can be expanded and retracted, using a 
similar button, that we used for our toolbar.

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For specific reasons, these 
panels take more space,  

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because the information they help you with, is 
much more than what you get with the toolbars,  

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hence, there aren't as many different 
panels, as the tools in the toolbar.

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You see this layers panel! I can 
always drag it out to the paste board,  

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and at this point, it is not 
even plugged to the panel area.

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Right now there are two columns 
of panels, but you can have more,  

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should you want to, but then it's 
going to take the document space,  

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so ideally, it should be kept to 
one, or a maximum of two columns.

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To plug this layers panel to one of the 
columns, I'm going to take it to the column,  

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and wait for this blue strip to appear. It 
means, the column is ready to take the panel,  

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and when you release the mouse button, 
it will plug itself to the column.

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To take one of the panels out, click, and hold the 
divider line, and pull it out, and it will be out,  

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and all these panels that you see here, can 
be accessed, or shown, using the window menu.

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There are many more panels that 
are not showing at the moment,  

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because you won't need all of them, all the 
time. It is always best, to only have the  

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panels that you'll often use, like the pages 
panel, or layers, or colors, or swatches.

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Let me take you to window, and let's bring a 
panel that's not out already. Let's go to styles,  

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and then paragraph styles, and you 
shall find it popping out here.

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To plug it to the column, just drag it to the 
column, wait for the blue strip to appear,  

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and release, and there you go! It's 
plugged, and ready to serve you.

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This panel on top is the options bar.  

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If you click this small cog on the right, 
a pop-up will appear, with check boxes.  

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From here, you can uncheck the options you don't 
want, and they will disappear from the screen.

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When you click the burger menu, it's 
the small icon with three stacked lines,  

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it will show you different options, and let 
me tell you that these options will change,  

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depending upon the options on 
top. Confused! Let me explain.

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The options that you see on top are not 
fixed, which means they will change,  

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depending upon the tool I pick from the toolbar 
on the left, so when I pick the page tool, you see  

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the options on top have changed to different 
options, pertaining to the selected tool.

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Similarly, when I pick the gap tool here, 
a different set of options appear on top.  

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When I click the text tool, I get a wide variety 
of options on top, and with the text tool,  

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the options are also divided into two parts here, 
so this one is the character formatting controls.  

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Anything to do with the text, can be customized 
using the options here, and the other one is  

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the paragraph formatting controls, that deals 
with alignments and leading, and columns etc.

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At the bottom of the screen, is the status bar, 
from where you can even change the view options.

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At this point, the screen is at 72.55 percent 
view. Click it, and change it to 75 percent,  

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or to 400 percent, and it's 
gonna zoom-in to that view.

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Let's bring it to 100. This is particularly 
good for people with smaller screens,  

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or the ones with eyesight issues. They can 
have it zoomed-in to their requirement.

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The status bar also tells you 
details about the pages, so  

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at the moment I have just one page 
in the document, and the A-master.

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This bar also tells you, if the 
document has been saved or not.

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You see, we created this document only a few 
minutes ago, for this lesson. I haven't saved it,  

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because I don't really need to, and it gives 
me that information here. It also gives me  

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this workspace information here, basis my 
actions on the document, so it understands,  

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that it is digital publishing, that I'm most 
likely working on, and it reflects that here.

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Lastly, it shows the pre-flight info. Preflight 
is a feature that checks for errors, as you work.  

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Displaying errors in real 
time. Enabling the designer  

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to fix problems throughout the design process.

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All right, let's move on to the menu options on 
top. The menu options are very self-explanatory.  

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The first one is the file menu,  

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that includes some of the basic commands 
to create, open, and save documents.

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It also includes the 'place' 
command, to import new content,  

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and many options to control document 
settings, exporting documents, and printing.

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Then we have the edit menu. You can access many 
commands for editing, and controlling selections,  

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such as, copying, and keyboard shortcuts,  

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the dictionary and spell 
checker are also on this menu.

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Layout is used to create guides. These options 
help you lay elements on the page accurately,  

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and properly align them. You can even use this 
menu to navigate the documents, pages and spreads.

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Then we have the type menu, 
that lets you select fonts,  

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and control characters in the layout. You 
can access many settings, related to text,  

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from this menu, which opens the associated 
panel, where you make the changes.

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Object helps you modifying the look, 
and placement of objects, on the page.  

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Which options are available on this menu,  

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depends on which element you've selected in the 
workspace, such as a text field, or an image.

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Now we have the table menu, 
which is used to create setup,  

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modify, and control tables, on the page.

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View can assist you in modifying the view 
of the page, from this menu, including  

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zooming-in, and out, as well as work with guides, 
rulers, or grids, to help you lay out elements.

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Window menu is used to open, and close 
panels, or switch between open documents,  

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and then we have the last 
one, which is the help menu.

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This menu is where you can access the help 
documents for InDesign, and configure any  

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plugins you have installed. There is one 
feature of help menu, that I really love.

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Suppose you want to go to cross references option, 
but you just can't seem to find it in the menu,  

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so what you can do is, in the 
search bar, under help menu,  

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type in 'cross references', and it will throw 
a list of the occurrences of cross references.

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Now, the moment you take your cursor 
to any one option from the list,  

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you see what happens! It highlights, 
where in the menu, you can find it.

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Let's test another one here. 
Let's type in 'liquid layout.'  

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You see there are two occurrences of liquid 
layout. Just hover your cursor to one of them,  

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and it will show you where the option is sitting 
under menu, so it's a very powerful tool,  

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particularly, for the ones who are new to 
InDesign, and also for the forgetful ones.

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When you go to window, and workspace, you will 
find different workspaces that are divided,  

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and preset, as per the needs of that work,  

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and not just that, you can have your own 
workspace as well, depending upon your needs.

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Let's say, how I see my document right now, in 
which I have CC libraries, and pages and paragraph  

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styles on the right, and the rest of the panels on 
the left. I want to always work with these panels,  

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ready for me, so what I'm going to do 
is, go to window, and then workspace,  

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and new workspace, and let's give it a 
name, 'demo workspace', and I'll have  

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the workspace to capture both, the panel 
locations, and the menus, and hit okay.

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My demo workspace is now saved, so 
let's switch to another workspace here.  

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Let's go to typography. You see, typography has 
just one column of panels on the right, and it has  

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these panels that I did not have on my workspace, 
because I never used them, so let me switch back  

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to my beloved demo workspace, and there you go! 
All my settings are intact, like I saved them.

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I'm always at liberty to delete this 
workspace, should I not want it,  

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and to do that, I need to go to window, and 
then workspace, and click delete workspace.  

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From the drop down, let's select 
demo workspace, and hit delete.  

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The moment I delete it, my workspace switches 
to the default one, which is essentials. Let's  

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switch our workspace to essential classic, because 
I'm never happy without my options panel on top.

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Another thing to note is that all our 
documents are tabulated, so when I go to  

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the tab of this document, and right click, 
I have these many options to choose from.  

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Let's select new document, and from the new 
document window, let's hit create, and you'll  

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find the new document appearing in another tab, 
so switching between document becomes very easy.

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Let's close the new document, without saving it,  

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and lastly, I'd like to talk about split windows 
feature. It sits at the bottom right of the  

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status bar. It is useful, but often ignored, 
which gives two views of the same document.

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Let me grab the text tool, and type 
in something here, and you can see the  

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typing happening in both screens, so it works 
really well for people with eyesight issues,  

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and another big reason why this is useful is, when 
highlighting the text, to change the text color.

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Let me highlight the text, 
and change its color to pink.  

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You see it's difficult to see the new 
shade, without turning off the highlighter,  

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that's because all colors are inverted, 
when selected, as can be seen here.

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The text looks green on the 
highlighted screen, but in actuality,  

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it's pink. You'll be forced to deselect, to 
view the new color, which can be time consuming,  

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if you want to skim through a number of 
different shades, to find the right one.

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All right guys! That concludes our lesson.  

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In the next one, we'll learn about pages, so stay 
tuned, and I'll see you there, in just a moment.