Chapter 21. Duplicating and Deleting Objects
Making copies of things and getting rid of them: What could be easier? Yet, there’s more to this topic than meets the eye. In this short chapter we’ll show you some methods which aren’t in the QuarkXPress vocabulary.
Duplicating Objects
QuarkXPress gives us three ways to make copies of its items—copying and pasting, Duplicate, and Step and Repeat. InDesign can do all this, of course, plus it has a few more options hidden up its sleeve.
Copying and Pasting
You can cut, copy, and paste objects in InDesign with the Selection, Direct Selection and Type tools. Like XPress, when choosing Paste from the Edit menu (or pressing Command-V/Ctrl-V), InDesign pastes the object in the center of the current page or spread. ...
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