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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.
As we stated previously, the Selection tool is used to access and manipulate entire Note:
objects. Using the Selection tool, you can:
In InDesign CS6, you
• Click and drag a handle to resize selected objects.
can resize, rotate, or scale
• Shift-click and drag to resize objects proportionally. multiple objects at once
• Command/Control-click and drag to scale selected objects. without first grouping
• Command/Control-Shift-click and drag to scale selected objects proportionally. them.
• Press Option/Alt with any of these to apply the transformation around the
selection’s center point.

7. Click the right-center bounding box handle of the active selection. Note:
Press and hold the Spacebar, then drag left. When the cursor feedback You might need to zoom
shows W: 8.625″, release the mouse button. in to get an accurate
As you drag, the space between the selected objects changes; the size of the actual objects three-decimal value in
is not affected. This method is called live distribution; to work properly, you must click the cursor feedback.
the handle before pressing the Spacebar.

The Selection
tool is active.

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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