Monday, January 30, 2012

A simple shortcut for moving your layout parts

Occasionally when you’re working on layouts, particularly those with multiple sub-summaries you require the flexibility to change part heights without all objects and parts below being moved. The process of rearranging objects can become time consuming as you extend parts and select and drag objects until you get everything in the desired location.

One easy way to change the height of a layout part without shuffling the objects below or being limited by the position of objects above is to use a modifier key when resizing the part.

Holding the Alt key (Win) or Cmd key (Mac) will allow you to drag the bottom boundary of the part across other objects on the layout (up or down). Normally, dragging a layout part further down will move all objects below it the same relative distance. In most cases this is what you want, sometimes it’s not. With this modifier key, you get to choose.

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