InDesign CS4: Unit F- Working with layers and Libraries
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. Which of the following terms is defined as designated levels within an InDesign document on which
objects appear?
a. levels
c. libraries
b. layers
d. merges
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2. What is the default selection color of Layer 1?
a. pale yellow
c. black
b. light blue
d. light red
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3. What is the selection color of a layer?
a. the color chosen for the fill or stroke of that level’s objects
b. the color of the bounding box that surrounds selected objects on that layer
c. the color surrounding correctly linked items
d. none of the above
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4. Which of the following is false?
a. If you have many layers in the Layers panel, descriptive layer names make it easier to
remember what is placed on each layer.
b. Anything added to the InDesign document is added to the topmost inactive layer.
c. You can also open the Layer Options dialog box by double-clicking a layer name in the
Layers panel.
d. Layers are automatically named by InDesign using the next consecutive number: Layer 1,
Layer 2, Layer 3, and so on.
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5. The New Layer dialog box is identical to the ____ dialog box.
a. Layer Name
c. Layer Options
b. New Layer Options
d. Layer Activation
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6. Which of the following can you do once a layer has been duplicated?
a. remove objects from it
c. add new objects to it
b. rename it
d. all of the above
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7. Which of the following statements is false?
a. Once you duplicate a layer, you can rename it, remove or modify objects on it, and/or add
new objects to it.
b. Duplicating a layer means choosing a layer in the Layers panel and creating an exact copy
of the layer and the objects on it.
c. Duplicating a layer is a great way to save yourself time and provides consistency in your
document.
d. Duplicated layers are named with the same name as the layer that was used to create the
duplicate, followed by the word “duplicated.”
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8. You can lock an object by selecting the object, clicking Object on the Application bar, then clicking ____.
a. Lock Position
c. Lock
b. Lock Application
d. Lock Object
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9. Which of the following is not a way to view library items within the library?
a. as a list
b. as thumbnail lists
c. as large thumbnails
d. as thumbnails
____ 10. Which is not a step for pasting layers?
a. click the Layer Tools list arrow
b. click the Layers panel list arrow
c. click Paste Remembers Layers to add a check mark before the command
d. copy or cut the InDesign objects and paste them into the new document
____ 11. Which of the following terms is defined as consolidating multiple layers into a single layer?
a. transform
c. merge
b. join
d. couple
____ 12. How do you change the order of the layers in the Layers panel?
a. link the layer to a new document
b. click Order in the Layers panel menu
c. click Find / Change in the Page Layers dialog box
d. drag the layer to a new location
____ 13. What does the black line in the figure above indicate?
a. the old location of the layer being moved
b. the new location of the layer being moved
c. a change in the selection color
d. none of the above
____ 14. What is the name of the dialog box shown in the figure above?
a. Page Options
c. Layer Placement
b. Layer Options
d. Page Placement
____ 15. Which of the following is not an Arrange command?
a. Send to Back
c. Bring to Top
b. Send Backward
d. Bring Forward
____ 16. Which is not a step in creating an object style?
a. Open the Create New Object Style dialog box.
b. Select an object with the style settings you want to use.
c. Click New Object Style on the Object Styles panel menu.
d. Name the style and change it as necessary in the New Object Style dialog box.
____ 17. What can be stored in a library?
a. text
b. any commonly accessed elements
c. graphics
d. all of the above
____ 18. Which is not a way to sort items in a library?
a. alphabetically
b. by font
c. by type
d. by age
____ 19. ____ are automatically added to items when they are copied from a library to the page.
a. Links
c. Legends
b. Frames
d. Names
____ 20. A library offers a ____ supply of each item unless you delete that item from the library.
a. limited
c. constant
b. diminishing
d. none of the above
____ 21. Which item in the figure above shows that the layer will not be hidden?
a. 4
c. 2
b. 3
d. 1
____ 22. Which item in the figure above shows that the guides for the layer will not be hidden?
a. 2
c. 4
b. 3
d. 5
____ 23. Which item in the figure above tells us that the layer is locked?
a. 2
c. 4
b. 3
d. 5
____ 24. What does item 3 in the figure above tell us?
a. layer is locked and will not print
b. layer will print despite being locked
c. guides for the layer will not print
d. only hidden parts of the layer will print
____ 25. What does item 5 in the figure above tell us?
a. guides on the layers are locked
b. guides will print
c. guides on the layer are not locked
d. guides are hidden and not locked
____ 26. When moving objects in InDesign you should drag the selected to what panel?
a. Colors Panel
b. Layers Panel
c. Location Panel
d. Settings Panel
____ 27. To move an InDesign object to a new layer, select the object on the page, then drag the Indicates selected
items icon in the ____ panel to a new layer.
a. Layers
c. Library
b. Pages
d. none of the above
____ 28. How many ways are there to create new layers?
a. 1
c. 3
b. 2
d. 4
____ 29. To move an InDesign object to a new layer, select the object on the page, then drag the ____ selected
items icon in the Layers panel to a new layer.
a. Chooses
c. Indicates
b. Moves
d. Pastes
____ 30. To merge multiple layers into a single layer, press and hold [Ctrl] (Win) or ____ (Mac), then click all of
the layers in the Layers panel that you wish to merge.
a. [option]
c. [control]
b. [command]
d. [fn]
____ 31. Arrange commands are applied only to the items on the currently active layer in the ____ panel.
a. Pages
c. Layers
b. Active Layers
d. Merge
____ 32. The Arrange commands are Send to Back, Bring to Front, ____, and Bring Forward.
a. Send Backward
c. Place Back
b. Send to Back
d. Get Back
____ 33. To create an object style, select an object with the style settings you want to use, then click ____ on the
Object Styles panel menu.
a. Create Object Style
c. New Object Style
b. Copy Object Style
d. Place Object Style
____ 34. You can name a new object style and change it as necessary in the ____ dialog box.
a. New Object Style
c. Object Style Preferences
b. Object Style
d. New Object Style Type
____ 35. Any formatting applied to an item when it is added to a ____ remains intact when it is copied from the
library into an InDesign document.
a. page
c. object
b. library
d. style sheet
CASE STUDY F-1
Ellen and Phil, with help from their father, are making a photo album Web site for their mother’s birthday.
Using the family scanner and InDesign, they are designing a site that will knock her socks off. Ellen said
she wanted each photo in the album to have an old-fashioned looking frame, and after some twiddling, the
three came up with the perfect object style.
____ 36. How did Dad go about turning the frame into an object style?
a. He dragged the finished frame to the Object Styles library.
b. He added the frame to the Object Style folder in the New Object dialog box.
c. He selected the frame and clicked New Object Style on the Object Styles panel menu.
d. He saved the frame as New Object Style in the Styles folder.
____ 37. Phil wants to name the object style Cool Old Frame. Where will Dad have to go in order to rename it?
a. Style Name folder in the Object Style dialog box
b. New Object Style dialog box
c. Object Style dialog box
d. New Style menu
____ 38. Because they’ll be using the new Cool Old Frame quite a bit while working on the Web site, Dad suggests
they add it to a library. Phil is confused, because he thinks Dad means he’s going to file the frame away
with a bunch of books downtown. What should Dad tell him?
a. Libraries are very convenient because they store all formatting that you have applied to
objects and text.
b. Libraries store items such as text, graphics, and other InDesign elements for you to access
and use repeatedly in multiple documents.
c. Libraries are easy to work with in InDesign because they are InDesign files that look and
work like InDesign panels.
d. all of the above
CASE STUDY F-2
Reese is in the middle of the biggest document he’s ever created. It has so many layers that he’s starting
to get confused. He’s starting to panic, because he can’t keep the layers straight in his head, and there are
too many of them to track on the screen without losing his mind.
____ 39. One of Reese’s biggest problems is that he didn’t give his layers ____ names.
a. legend
c. object
b. descriptive
d. deep
____ 40. Reese can’t remember which objects have been placed on which layer because he failed to change the
names of the levels as he created them. What is InDesign’s automatic layer naming system?
a. There is no automatic layer naming system.
b. Layers are automatically named using a random series of letters and numbers.
c. Layers are automatically named using the next consecutive letter: Layer A, Layer B, Layer
C...
d. Layers are automatically named using the next consecutive number: Layer 1, Layer 2,
Layer 3...
True/False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
____ 41. Any formatting applied to an item when it is added to a library remains intact when it is copied from the
library into an InDesign document.
____ 42. You can open the Layer Options dialog box by double-clicking a layer name in the Pages panel.
____ 43. Selecting a layer is also known as targeting a layer.
____ 44. When objects on locked layers are selected, they are surrounded with a light blue box..
____ 45. Objects can be placed on a hidden layer.
____ 46. It is not possible to paste a whole layer from one InDesign document into another InDesign document.
____ 47. It is not possible to move an existing object from one layer onto another layer in a document.
____ 48. The order of layers in the Layers panel is identical to the vertical order of InDesign objects on the page.
____ 49. To create an object style, select an object with the style settings you want to use for the object style, then
click New on the Object Styles panel menu.
____ 50. To add an entire page of objects to a library as a single item, click the library list arrow, then click Add
Items on Page 1.
Modified True/False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false. If false, change the identified word or phrase to make the statement
true.
____ 51. Layers are automatically named by InDesign using the next consecutive number.
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____ 52. The selection color of Layer 1 is black by default. _________________________
____ 53. Once you duplicate a layer, you can rename it, remove or modify objects on it, and/or add new objects to
it. _________________________
____ 54. Click a layer in the Pages panel to activate it. _________________________
____ 55. No objects can be placed on a hidden layer. _________________________
____ 56. Clicking the Toggles visibility icon and the Toggles lock icon on the Layers panel is equivalent to using
the Show Layer and Lock Layer check boxes in the Page Options dialog box.
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____ 57. To paste layers, click the Layers panel list arrow, then click Paste Remembers Layers to add a check mark
before the command. _________________________
____ 58. To move an InDesign object to a new layer, select the object on the page, then drag the Choose selected
items icon in the Layers panel to a new layer. _________________________
____ 59. To change the order of layers in the Layers panel, you drag the layer to a new location in the panel.
_________________________
____ 60. When you have more than one layer in an InDesign document, the Shuffle commands (Send to Back,
Bring to Front, Send Backward, and Bring Forward) are applied only to the items on the currently active
layer in the Layers panel. _________________________
Completion
Complete each statement.
61. You can open the Layer Options dialog box by double-clicking a layer name in the
____________________ panel.
62. Once you ____________________ a layer, you can rename it, remove or modify objects on it, and/or add
new objects to it.
63. No objects can be placed on a(n) ____________________ layer.
64. When you click an ____________________ in a document, the layer that it is on becomes the active
layer.
65. When you have more than one layer in an InDesign document, the ____________________ commands
(Send to Back, Bring to Front, Send Backward, and Bring Forward) are applied only to the items on the
currently active layer in the Layers panel.
66. To add an entire page of objects to a library as a single item, click the ____________________ list arrow,
then click Add Items on Page 1.
67. You can rename an untitled library item in the ____________________ Information dialog box.
Matching
a. Library
b. Layers
c. Selection Color
d. Duplicating
e. Locked objects
f. Object Styles
____ 68. Like character and paragraph styles, except that they are usually applied to objects such as graphics
frames and text frames instead of text
____ 69. Used for storing often-used text, graphics, and even pages
____ 70. The color of the bounding box around selected objects on a layer
____ 71. Levels within an InDesign document on which objects appear
____ 72. Objects that cannot be selected, so they cannot be moved or deleted
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