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Hi, there in this video, we'll be talking about the grid of five feature gratify is a hidden feature

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of InDesign.

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I say hidden because it doesn't have a tool or even a menu item, so let's learn how to make use of

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it.

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I have this landscape blank document open here.

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Now I'm going to grab the rectangle tool, and let's also change the color, the rectangle to read from

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the toolbar above.

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Now I'm going to click hold and drag to make a large rectangle, and without releasing the mouse, hit

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the right arrow to divide the rectangle into two.

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Keep hitting right arrow.

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NHL keeps splitting the rectangle.

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Similarly, hit the up arrow and it will split the rectangles vertically as well, making it look like

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a grid.

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At this point, I can very easily go back to have just one large rectangle, and to do that, all I

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need to do is hit the left arrow three times to merge the rectangles horizontally and then the down

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arrow three times to merge the rectangles vertically.

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So remember, right and up arrows split the rectangles and down and left arrows put them back together.

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Let's delete this rectangle, create another rectangle the same way and then hit the right hand up arrow

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to split the rectangle.

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It's much like we did earlier and don't release the mouse key yet.

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Now hold command on a Mac or control on a PC, and then hits the right arrow a few times and you shall

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find that the vertical spaces between the rectangles are increasing.

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Similarly, using the command or control key hit the apparel and the horizontal spaces will increase.

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Let's delete the shapes once again.

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Let's drag to make another rectangle and using the same way, split them horizontally as well as vertically,

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and then release the mouse key.

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Now grab the Gap tool from the toolbar on the left.

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Take it to one of the spaces.

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Click and drag, and you shall find it expanding the whole column of rectangles.

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So if you take it to the right, the column on the right shrinks while the left column expands.

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Dragging the tool to the left would do just the opposite.

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If you hold command on a Mac or control on a PC and then click and drag, it shall expand the space

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in between when you drag it to the right and contracts the space when you drag it to the left.

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If you hold option on a Mac or old on a PC and then click and drag, it locks the two columns of rectangles

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as if they are one and then moves them as a single entity, either to the right or the left, depending

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upon where you move them.

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Holding shift and moving them will yield the same result as holding command and control.

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You can use these commands vertically as well as illustrated lets delete them now.

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Let's pick the line tool and holding shift.

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Draw a straight line.

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Now hold option on a Mac or alt on a PC and then click and drag to make another copy of this line.

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While the copy is being made, don't release the mouse key yet.

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It's either the right arrow or up arrow key to increase the number of lines.

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Unlike the rectangles up, Arrow won't split the lines further.

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You can always use the command option or shift keys on a Mac or control all to shift keys on a PC to

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see how the lines react to them.

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They yield pretty much the same result as with the rectangles.

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Let us delete the lines now and pick the type tool and make a large text box and hit the right arrow

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to split the text boxes into several pieces.

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Now split them further, using the up arrow and then release the mouse key.

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You see, the best part about these different text boxes is that they are linked.

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So if I go to the first one here and click to type and then right click and select fill with placeholder

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text.

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All the text boxes get filled altogether.

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Of course, if you want to use the Gap tool with the text boxes along with the keys we discussed, it

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will all yield similar results as illustrated.

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Let's delete the text boxes as well.

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And finally, let's go to file and then place and locate six images on the computer and hit open.

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Once the cursor is loaded with images, you can decide which one should be the first one to be dropped

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onto the page by using the right arrow.

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You'll find it shuffling the images as you click.

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Once have fixed your mind on the first image, click and drag to make a large selection and then click

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the right arrow twice to split the rectangle into three and then up Arrow once to split the rectangles

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further into six and then release the mouse.

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You shall find all the six images plays perfectly into their frames.

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If you want to reduce the spaces on top and bottom of the images, have all the images selected and

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then right click on any of the images and then go to fitting and then fit frame to content, and your

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frames will contract themselves to the size of the images.

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So, guys, that's the great defining feature of InDesign to make your life easy and efficient.

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All right, guys, that concludes of a session, and I'm going to see you in the next one momentarily.

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Goodbye.