Chapter TwoWorking with Documents

In InDesign, a document is an individual file that contains the layout for a publication—an advertisement, brochure, newsletter, book chapter, or magazine article, for example. When you create a document, you specify fundamental aspects of the publication, such as the page size, margins, and number of columns. These settings can be saved as document presets so you can quickly and consistently create documents with all the same settings.

In this chapter you’ll learn to create, open, close, save, and navigate documents. Once you create a document, you enter the workspace known as the document window. The document window displays the pages of your publication along with a variety of layout and navigational ...

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