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446 Page & Layer Gallery

Clicking on these icons will change the visibility and / or the locked or editable nature of each
object.

Pages

Clicking the PAGES button on the top of the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY (or right clicking in the
gallery and choosing SHOW PAGE LEVEL) will open pages mode, displaying only the pages
in the document and collapsing all other opened levels.

When in pages mode and the gallery is docked, the width of the gallery is reduced to its
minimum, to take up as little space as possible. Also the number of buttons at the top of
the gallery is cut down to just those applicable to pages. To leave pages mode, simply
expand one of the pages to reveal its layers. The gallery returns to its full width and the
full button set is restored.
You can select multiple pages in the gallery by Ctrl+clicking on pages to add them to the
selection, or by holding Shift down to select a range of pages. Then you can copy,
paste, delete or re-order multiple pages at once. You can also paste objects from your
clipboard to the selected pages.

You can re-order pages by dragging on the selected pages in the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY,
or by right clicking a page and choosing MOVE PAGE UP/DOWN.
You can change the page transitions for multiple pages at once by first selecting them in
the gallery and then changing the settings on the Page tab of the "Utilities" > "Web
Properties" dialog. This is particularly useful to quickly change the page transition effect
used for all pages in a presentation at once.

You can rename a page by right clicking it and choosing RENAME PAGE. As well as being
a useful way to identify pages in long documents, the page name is used when exporting
your document as a website.

Layers

Everything in your document has a stacking order but with more complex documents that
have dozens, maybe hundreds or thousands of items, your work area can be become
cluttered.

Using layers you can group a collection of items together and then turn the whole
collection on or off (make it visible or hidden) in one easy operation. Layers can be made
invisible, to hide parts of your document. You can give layers names, and you can easily
create new layers or delete them. And you can open a layer and view its contents.

When you select any object, the layer it's on is shown on the status line at the bottom of
the window.