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- [Instructor] In this movie,

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I'll show you how to create
and duplicate artboards

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using the artboard tool,
and as things stand now,

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you can only create
one artboard at a time,

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but you can duplicate as
many artboards as you like.

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And so, I'm going to start things
off by creating a new number,

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which I'm going to do by
clicking on the eight,

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with the black arrow tool,

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and then I'll go up to the edit menu

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and choose the copy command,

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or you have that standard
keyboard shortcut

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of control c here on a PC,
or command c on the Mac.

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Now, I'll go ahead and
scroll over to the right,

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using my horizontal scroll bar,

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and then I'll return to the edit menu,

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and choose the paste command,

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or you have that industry
standard shortcut

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of control v here on the
PC, or command v on a Mac,

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which goes ahead and pastes that number

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in the center of the screen.

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Alright, now I want to
surround this number

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with a new artboard,

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and so I'll go ahead and
switch to the artboard tool,

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which you can get by pressing shift o,

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and then, you have a few
different ways to work.

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One is to just drag with the tool like so,

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and assuming that your
smart guides are turned on,

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you'll see the size of
your artboard represented

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in that heads up display,

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down into the right of your cursor.

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So, that's one way to work.

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Another way, I'll just go
ahead and press control z,

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or command z on the Mac
to undo that artboard,

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is to drag from the center
of the number, for example,

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and then as you're dragging,
press and hold the alt key,

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or the option key on the Mac,

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and that'll draw your artboard
from the center outward.

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But, note that you need to keep
the alt or option key down,

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if you release the key mid-drag,

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then you'll go ahead
and draw your artboard

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from one corner to another.

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Alright, so I'll go ahead
and press the alt key,

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once again, that's the
option key on the Mac.

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If you want to constrain the
portions of your artboard,

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to match the proportion

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of your previously selected artboard,

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in our case artboard eight but,

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they're all really the same size,

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then you want to press
and hold the shift key.

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So at this point I have both
the shift and alt keys down,

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if I were working on
the Mac, I'd be pressing

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both the shift and option keys.

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And then, when you release,
you'll create your new artboard.

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Alright, there's a couple of
other different ways to work.

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Go ahead and press control
z, or command z on the Mac

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to undo that change, and
I'll just click on the eight.

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Now, in my case, that's not doing anything

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but deselecting artboard eight,

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down and to the left of the new eight,

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and so if that happens to you,

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just go ahead and click again,

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in order to create an
artboard that's auto-sized

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to that selected number.

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And, by the way, the
reason it's so much taller

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than the number is because
it needs to allow room

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for the ascenders and descenders

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associated with many of
the different characters

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included with this font.

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Alright, I'm going to undo that artboard,

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and we'll see the last way to work,

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which is to click on
this little page icon,

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up here in the control panel.

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Now, whenever you see page
icons inside Illustrator,

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that means you're going
to create something new.

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And because we're working
in the artboard mode,

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that's going to create a new artboard.

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And so notice, as soon
as I click on that icon,

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I create a new artboard next
to the previously selected one,

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which is artboard eight.

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Alright, I'm going to
scroll up a little bit,

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using the vertical scroll bar,

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over here on the far
right-hand side of the screen,

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and then I'll go ahead and
drag this top handle upwards,

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in order to scale that
new artboard like so.

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Alright, now notice for some reason,

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even though Illustrator is acknowledging

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that it's the ninth artboard,

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and we can tell that because
we're seeing an oh nine

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in this little title tab here.

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But the program is automatically

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naming this artboard, artboard 11.

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If you want to change that,
go up here to the name option,

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once again in the control
panel, click inside of it,

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and then enter, in my case,
artboard nine, let's say,

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and then I'll press the enter key,

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or the return key on a Mac,
and that goes ahead and

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automatically updates that title.

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Alright, now let's say I want
to change my eight to a nine,

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then I could just switch to the type tool,

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which looks like a capital
T here in the tool box,

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and that'll go ahead and take me

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out of the artboard editing mode,

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as well as change my
cursor to a little I-beam,

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and now I'll drag over the eight,

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and enter a nine in its stead,

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and then I'll press the escape key,

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in order to exit the text entry mode.

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Now let's say I want to center
that nine on the artboard,

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then, notice this align option
up here on the control panel.

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Go ahead and click on it to
bring up the align panel,

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drop down to this align to option,

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in the bottom-right corner, click on it,

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and change it to align to artboard,

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and then, go ahead and
click on the second icon

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in the first row, which reads
horizontal align center,

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and that will center the number
nine as we're seeing here,

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after which point you can
just press the enter key,

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or the return key on a Mac,
to hide that align panel.

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Alright, now let's say we want
to duplicate artboard nine.

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In that case, I'd go up to the view menu,

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and choose the zoom out command,

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just so I have a little more room to work,

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and now, I'll scroll over to the left,

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by, once again, dragging inside
this horizontal scroll bar

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at the bottom of the screen, and then,

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I'll switch to the artboard tool,

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again, you can get that
by pressing shift o,

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and what I'm going to do this time is,

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instead of dragging this artboard,

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which is just going to move
it to a different location,

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in which case I'll press control
z, or command z on the Mac

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to undo that change,

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you'll want to press the alt key,

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or the option key on a Mac,

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which will change your
cursor to a double arrowhead,

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at which point you can drag that artboard,

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let's say, way over here to the left,

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in order to create a copy of it.

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And because I'm seeing that
horizontal magenta smart guide,

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I am dragging this artboard
exclusively horizontal.

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And because I had the
alt or option key down,

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I'm creating a duplicate of that artboard

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as we're seeing right here.

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Now, another way to work

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is to absolutely constrain your drag,

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if you want to drag exclusively
horizontally or vertically,

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and you do that by adding the shift key.

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And I'll repeat that
operation by once again,

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alt or option dragging that artboard,

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and so, as you can see, I have
a double arrowhead cursor,

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which is showing me that I'm
going to create a duplicate,

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and then if I were to add the shift key,

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so I have both the shift
key and alt keys down

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here on the PC, or the shift
and option keys down on a Mac,

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then I constrain the angle of
my drag to exactly horizontal.

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And thanks to the fact that
this icon is turned on,

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move/copy artwork with artboard,

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I am copying the number nine
along with artboard nine,

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which now has the name
of artboard nine copy.

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Which of course you
could change if you like,

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and so I'm just going to go
ahead and click inside this guy

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and change it to artboard zero, let's say,

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and then I'll select my type tool,

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which once again looks
like a capital letter T,

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and I'll drag over the nine
and change it to a zero,

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and press the escape key
to accept that change.

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Alright now, as I said, you can duplicate

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as many artboards as you like.

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And so, let's say I want
to duplicate artboards

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five, six, seven, and eight,

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then I would go ahead and
switch to the artboard tool,

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once again, and then I would
click off that first artboard

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to deselect it, and then I
would go ahead and shift drag,

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in order to partially marquee,
as you're seeing here,

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artboards five through eight,

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so that goes ahead and
selects that entire range.

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And now I'm scrolling down

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just by using the scroll
wheel on my mouse,

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after which point, I'll press the alt key,

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or the option key on a Mac,
and drag these guys down,

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and if I want to constrain
the angle of my drag

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to exactly vertical this time around,

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I'd add the shift key.

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So here on the PC, I have both
the shift and alt keys down,

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on a Mac, I would be pressing

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both the shift and option keys.

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Alright, now I'll just go
ahead and press the escape key,

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in order to exit the
artboard editing mode,

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and return control to my black arrow tool,

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after which point I would
go up to the view menu,

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and choose fit all in window,

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in order to see all 14
of my artboards onscreen.

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And that is how you create
and duplicate artboards

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using the artboard tool here
inside the most recent version

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of Illustrator CC.