Adobe Creative Cloud All-in-One For Dummies - Christopher Smith

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an alert window also offers the option (typically in the form of a checkbox) of not showing the alert or warning again. You may want to select this option if you repeatedly perform an action that shows the warning and you don’t need to see the warning every time.

Snapshot of choosing a menu option with an ellipsis opens a submenu.

      FIGURE 4-4: Choosing a menu option with an ellipsis opens a submenu.

      The following menu options are found in several Creative Cloud applications, and these commands either perform similar (or the same) functions or they open similar dialog boxes:

       New: Creates a brand-new document in the native file format. For example, in InDesign, a new INDD (the extension for InDesign documents) file is created by choosing File ⇒ New ⇒ Document. You can sometimes choose the type of new file you want to create.

       Open: Opens a dialog box where you can choose a (supported) file to open on your hard drive or a disc.

       Close: Closes the current document. If it has unsaved changes, you’re prompted to save those changes first.

       Save: Saves the changes you’ve made to the current document.

       Save As: Saves a new copy of the current document using a different name.

       Import: Imports a file, such as an image or sound file, into the current document.

       Export: Exports the current data to a specified file format. You can sometimes select several kinds of file formats to save the current data in.

       Copy: Copies the selected data to the computer’s Clipboard.

       Paste: Pastes the data from the Clipboard into the current document.

       Undo: Undoes the most recent task you performed in the application. For example, if you just created a rectangle, the rectangle is removed from the document.

       Redo: Repeats the steps you applied the Undo command to. For example, if you removed that rectangle you created, the Redo command adds it back to the document.

       Zoom In: Magnifies the document so that you can view and edit its contents closely.

       Zoom Out: Scales the view smaller so that you can see more of the document at a time.

       Help: Opens the Help documentation for the current application.

      A contextual menu is similar to the menu types we describe in the previous sections; however, it’s context-sensitive and opens when you right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac) on an object in your document. Contextual means that the menu dynamically changes depending upon what you have selected.

Snapshot of opening a contextual menu by right-clicking on a selected object.

      FIGURE 4-5: Open a contextual menu by right-clicking on a selected object.

The tool you select in the Tools panel may affect which contextual menus you can access in a document. You may have to select the Selection tool first to access certain menus. If you want to open a contextual menu for a particular item in the document, make sure that the object is selected before you right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac).

      

If you’re using a Mac, you can right-click to open a contextual menu if you have a two-button mouse. Otherwise, you press Control-click to open a contextual menu.

      For example, if you open the File menu, next to the Save option is Ctrl+S (Windows) or ⌘ +S (Mac). Rather than choose File ⇒ Save, you can press the shortcut keys to save your file. It’s a quick way to execute a particular command.

Snapshot of the shortcuts that are shown next to their associated commands.

      FIGURE 4-6: Shortcuts are shown next to their associated commands.

Some commonly used shortcuts in the Adobe Creative Cloud applications are listed in Table 4-1.

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Command Windows Shortcut Mac Shortcut
New Ctrl+N ⌘ +N
Open Ctrl+O ⌘ +O
Save Ctrl+S ⌘ +S
Undo Ctrl+Z ⌘ +Z
Redo Shift+Ctrl+Z Shift+⌘ +Z
Copy Ctrl+C ⌘ +C
Paste Ctrl+V ⌘ +V
Print Ctrl+P ⌘ +P
Preferences (General) Ctrl+K ⌘ +K