Adobe InDesign Work Area, Tools, Palettes

The (Other) Palettes, Part 2

Each palette has got its own pop-up menu.

Images by E. Bruno

• Character
• Paragraph

These palettes are only under the Window Menu:

• Align
• Colour
• Control (which is the same Control Palette I covered earlier)
• Gradient
• Info
• Layers
• Links
• Navigator
• Flattener (Window > Output Preview)
• Separations (Window > Output Preview)
• Pages
• Stroke
• Swatches
• Tools (which I will take up later on in this lesson)
• Transform
• Transparency
• Character Styles (Window > Type & Tables)
• Paragraph Styles (Window > Type & Tables)
• Table (Window > Type & Tables)
• Text Wrap

And we obviously also have the black sheep: the Library palette, which is under File > New > Library.

Each palette has got its own menu. If you click on the arrow shown in illustration (below), their menu will pop up and you can then choose any of the options that are available.

View Larger Image of the palettes

• The Work Area
• The Menu Bar
• The Control Palette, Part 1
• The Control Palette, Part 2
• The (Other) Palettes, Part 1
• The (Other) Palettes, Part 2
• The Tools Palette
• The Tools Palette Swatches, Part 1
• The Tools Palette Swatches, Part 2
• A Few Words on Contextual Menus