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Adjust Baseline shift
Option + Shift + Up ArrowMove Up by Increment
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Option + Shift + Down ArrowMove Down by Increment (add Cmd to the above keystrokes to make them Increment x 5) Scaling picture & text frames (picture content is scaled with the frame, but text content is not scaled with the frame)
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Adjust Kerning/Tracking & WORD SPACING
Option + Right ArrowIncrease by Increment
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Option + Left ArrowDecrease by Increment
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Command + Option + Right ArrowIncrease by Increment x 5
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Command + Option + Left ArrowDecrease by Increment x 5
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Command + Option + Shift + \Increase between words
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Command + Option + Shift + DeleteDecrease between words
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Command + Option + QClear all manual kerning and reset tracking to 0
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Adjust Leading
Option + Down ArrowIncrease by Increment
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Option + Up ArrowDecrease by Increment
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Command + Option + Shift + ARevert to Auto Leading
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Find/Change
Command + F1Insert selected text into Find What box
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Shift + F1Insert selected text into Find What box and then Find Next instance
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Shift + F2Find the next occurrence of Find What text
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Command + F2Insert selected text into Change To box
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Command + F3Replace selected text with Change To text
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Shift + F3Replace selected text with Change To text and Find Next
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Fitting Content & pictures
Command + Option + Shift + EFit Content Proportionally
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Command + Option + EFit Content to Frame
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Command + Shift + ECenter Content
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Command + Option + CFit Frame to Content
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Flowing Text
Option + ClickSemi-autoflow (keeps text in cursor so you can continue flowing)
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Shift + ClickMulti-Page Autoflow (creates additional pages)
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Shift + Option + ClickSingle-Page Autoflow (does not create additional pages)
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General
Command + Option + GSelect all Guides
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Insert Automatic page number
Command + Option + Shift + NAuto Page Number Of the Current page
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Insert Break characters
EnterColumn Break
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Shift + EnterFrame Break
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Command + EnterPage Break
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Insert Special characters
Command + \Indent to Here
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Shift + TabRight Indent Tab
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Command + Shift + -Discretionary Hyphen
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Command + Option + -Nonbreaking Hyphen
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Insert White space
Command + Shift + MEm space
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Command + Shift + NEn space
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Command + Option + XNonbreaking space
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Command + Option + Shift + MThin space
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Moving text cursor
HomeMove cursor to beginning or end of line
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Command + Left ArrowMove cursor one word to the left
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Command + Right ArrowMove cursor one word to the right
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Command + Up ArrowMove cursor to Previous paragraph
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Command + Down ArrowMove cursor to Next paragraph
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Navigating & scrolling through documents
Option + SpacebarScroll using Hand tool
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Command + Shift + Page UpGo to the First Page
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Command + Shift + Page DownGo to the Last Page
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Command + JAccess page number box (so you can enter a page to go to)
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Command + ~Switch between open Documents
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Selecting text
Shift + EndSelect from cursor to beginning or end of line
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Command + Shift + EndSelect from cursor to end of story
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Command + Shift + HomeSelect from cursor to beginning of story
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Double-clickSelect whole word
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Command + Shift + \Select line
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Styling text
Command + Shift + BBold
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Command + Shift + IItalic
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Command + Shift + YNormal
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Command + Shift + KAll Caps
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Working with Dialog boxes
Page DownRotate down through section of options displayed on the left
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Page UpRotate up through section of options displayed on the left
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Command + 1Jump to section of options displayed on the left
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Command + .Cancel
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YChoose Yes
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NChoose No
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Working with Master Pages
Command + Shift + ClickSelect a master page object (that is on a document page)
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Working with palettes
Command + 6Highlight the first option in the Control palette
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Command + Option + 7Toggle Control palette between Character & Paragraph options
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TabShow/Hide all Panels including Toolbar
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Shift + TabShow/Hide all Panels except the Toolbar
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Working with Styles
Command + Option + Shift + RRedefine a Paragraph Style
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Command + Option + Shift + CRedefine a Character Style
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Zooming
Command + +Zoom In
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Command + -Zoom Out
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