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When we start creating shapes in a little while, that will make more sense. I also use it to get to the elements that make up the frame itself. So if I want to select an image that's sitting inside of a frame, I would use that. The Direct Selection Tool is what I use when I want to select the content of that frame.

So when I need to select that frame itself, I use the Selection Tool. This is a frame that contains image and then we put an image in it. You need to tell it, this is a frame, it contains text, and then put text in it. It's not like in something like Word where you just start typing and it's there. Because everything in InDesign has to be in some kind of container.

So if I'm talking about the actual thing that holds something in like a graphics frame or a text frame, I use the Selection Tool for that and that selects the content. As we start creating frames in a little while, you'll see the difference. The Selection Tool, what it does is it lets you select the frame or the container that we're working on. You'll sometimes hear them called the solid tool or the solid arrow and the hollow arrow, or the black and the white arrow. So you've got two different selection tools: the Selection Tool and the Direct Selection Tool. So for me, I tend not to use the built-in shortcuts that ar.Į here. 'A', well if you're cursor is sitting in a text box and you click 'A' thinking you're going to switch to the Direct Selection Tool, you may just typed 'A' in a text frame. The keyboard shortcuts though, are simple. To clarify, I don't use the keyboard shortcuts for them. I generally don't use them because if you'll notice, they're very simple keyboard shortcuts. Those are the keyboard shortcuts that are standard for these particular tools. You'll notice there's a little letter after each of those. So we have the Selection Tool and the Direct Selection Tool. The two I want you to focus on to start with are the two right here at the top. There are a lot of tools and we're just gonna focus on a couple right now and a couple more as we get into each section individually. We're not gonna go over every tool, for sure, in this course. Alright, so let's talk about the tool panel while I got this open.