InDesign for QuarkXPress Users [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Selecting, Deleting, and Navigating

While text must always be placed in a text frame, remember that you can drag out a rectangular frame with the Type tool (press T). Once you have a frame, you can begin typing. In addition to the usual ability to select text by dragging the cursor, you can also use the same shortcuts as QuarkXPress for selecting text by clicking:

• Double-clicking selects a word.




• Triple-clicking selects a line.




• Quadruple-clicking selects a paragraph.




• Clicking five times (or pressing Command-A/Ctrl-A) selects all the text in your threaded text frames.

However, if you turn off the Triple Click to Select a Line option in the Text panel of the Preferences dialog box (see Chapter 7), then clicking three times selects a paragraph and four times selects the whole story.

One thing you may miss from XPress: If you make a selection and click outside of the frame, InDesign forgets the selection (QuarkXPress remembers it when you click back in the text box). Another feature which is missing in InDesign is drag-and-drop text. This is an option in XPress (and Microsoft Word) which hasn't yet made it into InDesign.

Deleting text works the same as in XPress: The Delete key kills the character to the left of the cursor, and Shift-Delete the character to the right of the insertion point.

Keyboard Navigating

If you like keyboard commands to navigate through text, rather than using a mouse, most of the commands you know from QuarkXPress work just the same. Using the Up, Down, Left and Right Arrow keys move you around in text as you'd expect. As in XPress, adding the Command/Ctrl key to the arrow keys moves by word or paragraph.

However, in InDesign the Home key takes you to the start of a line, and the End key to the end of the line. Command/Ctrl-Home takes you to the beginning of the story, and Command/Ctrl-End takes you to the end.

As in QuarkXPress, if you add the Shift key to each of these keyboard commands, InDesign selects all the text from the insertion point's location to the location where the command sends it. For example, Command-Shift-End/Ctrl-Shift-End selects from the current cursor location to the end of the text story (even if the end doesn't appear in the current text frame).