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Show and Hide Page Properties

Like XPress, InDesign lets you show and hide your page guides and ruler guides (see Chapters 34 and 35 for more on these sorts of guides) with a single command: Show/Hide Guides from the View menu (or press Command-;/Ctrl-;). However, while this command in XPress hides or shows all page properties, this command

only hides or shows the ruler and page guides. InDesign lets you hide or show other page properties, too, such as frame edges, baseline grid, and even master page items.

Frame Edges

XPress users aren't used to hiding the edges of text and picture boxes as a separate step from hiding guides. But after becoming acclimated to this, you'll find that it's a very powerful tool. For instance, by using the Hide Frame Edges command from the View menu (Command-H/Ctrl-H), you can often better position an item near a guide without the frame interfering with the view. Note that this keyboard shortcut is the same as Hide Selection in Photoshop.

Baseline Grid

If you create multiple-column documents you probably use the baseline grid. You can make the grid visible from the View menu by select Show Baseline Grid (or hide it by selecting Hide Baseline Grid). The keyboard shortcut is Command-Option-'/Ctrl-Alt-' (single quote).

InDesign also gives you a second method for showing or hiding the grid, based upon the zoom level at which you are viewing the page. You can set the grid to be visible when you viewing the document at a high magnification but to hide when you are viewing the entire document at a lower magnification level. Use the Grids preferences (see Chapter 7 for more on preferences) to set the View Threshold for the baseline grid. When the document is at a magnification above the view threshold the grid is visible; when it's below the threshold, the grid is invisible. Or, if you always want the baseline grid to be visible, regardless of the magnification, set the View Threshold to 5%.

By the way, this same threshold option is available for ruler guides. Use the context menus when clicking on an existing ruler guide (Ctrl-click/right click) to set this percentage. You can also set this percentage for all future ruler guides by entering the View Threshold in the Ruler Guides dialog accessed from the Layout menu, as seen in Figure 3-1.

Text Threads

In XPress, it's a hassle to find out how text boxes are linked together. InDesign makes this much easier: Just turn on Show Text Threads from the View menu (Command-Option-Y/Ctrl-Alt-Y). You can hide the threads with the same command. Note that these threads are only visible when the in and out ports of the text frame are visible; that is, when you you've selected the frame with the Selection or Direct Selecction tool (see Chapter 40 for more on text threads).

Master Items

Another nice option InDesign introduces is the ability to show or hide master page items. You can use this to easily determine what items are master page items versus local, individual page items. Select Display Master Items from the View menu (or press Command-Y/Ctrl-Y) to show or hide items that are part of a master page that is applied to a document page.

Document Grid

QuarkXPress also lacks any sort of document gridessentially a piece of graph paper that can overlay the document page. Fortunately, InDesign has this, and you can turn the grid on or off by selecting Show Document Grid from the View menu (or press Command-;/Ctrl-;). The document grid is extremely helpful when placing a number of objects on a page because you can avoid placing your own guides. You can control the document grid settings in the Preferences dialog box (see Chapter 7).