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4. While still holding down the mouse button, press the Right Arrow key.
Note:
If you press the arrow keys while creating a frame, you can create a grid of frames
within the area that you drag. This method of creating
• Press the Right Arrow key to add columns. multiple frames, called
gridified tools, works
• Press the Left Arrow key to remove columns.
with any of the frame or
• Press the Up Arrow key to add rows.
basic shape tools.
• Press the Down Arrow key to remove rows.

Pressing the Right Arrow key splits the area
you draw into two equal-sized frames.

5. Press the Right Arrow key six more times to create a total of eight frames,
then release the mouse button.

The resulting frames are equal in size, and have the same amount of space between each.
Crossed diagonal lines
indicate that these are
empty graphics frames.

6. With the eight resulting frames selected, choose the Selection tool.
Note:
As we stated previously, the Selection tool is used to access and manipulate entire
objects. Using the Selection tool, you can: In InDesign CC, you can
resize, rotate, or scale
• Click and drag a handle to resize selected objects.
multiple objects at once
• Shift-click and drag to resize objects proportionally.
without first grouping
• Command/Control-click and drag to scale selected objects. them.
• Command/Control-Shift-click and drag to scale selected objects proportionally.
• Press Option/Alt with any of these to apply the transformation around the
selection’s center point.
Note:
7. Click the right-center bounding box handle of the active selection. You might need to zoom
Press and hold the Spacebar, then drag left. When the cursor feedback in to get an accurate
shows W: 8.625 in, release the mouse button. three-decimal value in
As you drag, the space between the selected objects changes; the size of the actual objects the cursor feedback.
is not affected. This method is called live distribution; to work properly, you must click
the handle before pressing the Spacebar.

Click the center
handle, then press
the Spacebar and
drag left.

The space between The size of selected
selected objects is reduced. objects is not affected.

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