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- In this movie, I'll show
you how to manage multiple

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open documents inside Illustrator
and so what I've got here

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is the five artboard version
of the artwork along with each

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one of the artboards relegated
to an independent document.

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And the way that I did that,
just in case you're curious,

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is I went up to the File
menu and I choose Save a Copy

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that way I'm not harming or
renaming the original file

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and then I went ahead and
entered a file name of

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Busted up and clicked on the
Save button, then inside the

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Illustrator Options dialogue
box, I went ahead and switched

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the version to CS6 just to
make these files as compatible

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as possible and I turned
on Save each artboard to

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a separate file and instead
of selecting All, which would

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save a duplicate of the five
artboard file, I went ahead

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and selected Range and
left it set to 1 - 5

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and then I clicked Ok.

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But given that I've already
done that in advance

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and it takes a few moments, we'll go ahead

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and click on the Cancel button.

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Alright, now you can switch
from one document to another

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by clicking on its Title tab,
like so, that much I think is

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pretty self-evident but you
can also switch between files

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from the keyboard.

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On a PC, you press ctrl +
tab and on the Mac, you press

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cmd + ~ and the tilde key is
that wavy character that's

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in the upper-left corner,
just below the Esc key

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on an American keyboard.

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So again that's cmd +
tilde on the Mac to switch

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to the next window and
if you keep pressing one

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of those keyboard shortcuts,
you're going to eventually

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cycle around to the first document.

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Now for some reason you're having problems

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getting this keyboard shortcut
to work, then the most likely

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culprit is the Caps Lock key,
which at least prevents the

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keyboard shortcut from
working on the PC, doesn't

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seem to really affect things
on the Mac but I just want

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you to know what's up there.

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If you want to cycle backward
through your documents,

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then you press ctrl +
shift + tab here in the PC,

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that's cmd + shift + ~ on the Mac.

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Alright, you also have
the option of viewing

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multiple documents at a
time by going up to this

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Arrange Documents icon, again,
you're going to find that

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in a separate so-called
Application Bar between the Menu

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Bar and the Control
Panel, farther over here

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on the left-hand side of
the screen but in any event,

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go ahead and click on it and
switch to this first icon

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in the second section which
is two up, and you'll end up

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keeping all of your documents
but one in this left-hand

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window and then you'll
send the last document

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over to a right-hand window
and to center it, I'll just

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go ahead and click in that
right-hand window and I'll press

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ctrl + 0 or cmd + 0 in the
Mac and then I'll click in the

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first window in order to make it active.

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Now notice that we can see three
Title tabs but we can't see

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the fourth one and so if you
run into that problem, which is

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very common when you have lots
of documents open, go ahead

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and click on this
double-arrow icon right there

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which will bring up a menu
of the open documents inside

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this window and then you
can go ahead and switch to

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the one that I can't see
right now, which is Busted Up

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square 3 and now I'll press
ctrl + 0 or cmd + 0 on the Mac

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in order to fit it on screen.

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Now the obvious advantage of
this technique is that you can

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view multiple documents at a
time but just bear in mind that

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only one of the documents is
active and that's because you

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can only work on one document
at a time inside Illustrator

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and you can tell which document
that is because it will

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appear with the bright title
instead of a dimmed one.

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Alright, now let's say you
want to move this document

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into the other window, then
you can just go ahead and drag

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it and drop it but make sure
that you can see a blue frame

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so in other words, you want
to make sure that you're

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dragging into that Title
tab bar as you see me doing

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right here because if you
drop it at some other location

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you're going to end up with
a floating document window.

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Now you can scale this
window to any size you like

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just by dragging on one
of the edges like so.

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On a PC, you can move a floating
window over the Menu bar

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on the Mac you can't but you
rarely want to work this way

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and so to put the document
back inside one window or the

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other just go ahead and drag
it so that you see that blue

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frame and then drop it
into place like so and that

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gives you the option of viewing
two different illustrations

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at the same time as we're seeing here.

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Alright, now let's say you
want to bring all of the

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documents back together in a
single window, then go ahead

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and click on that Arrange
Documents icon once again and

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click on this first icon,
Consolidate All and that'll put

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all the documents in a single window.

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They might not be in the same
order as they were before.

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For example, notice that Art Square 4 is

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now appearing before Art Square 3.

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That's no problem though because you can

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always change the order of your documents,

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just by dragging a Title
tab, but you have to be very

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careful to keep it in this horizontal bar.

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If you drag it out, you'll
end up messing things up,

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like so and then you're
going to have to start over

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again, which is,
unfortunately, very common.

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So just make sure to drag
carefully and you should be ok.

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And now you can cycle through
the windows, just like you

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were before, either by pressing
ctrl + tab here in the PC

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or cmd + ~ on the Mac.

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Alright, another option
that's available to you is

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to see all of your artwork
at once and you do that by

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once again, returning to
the Arrange Documents icon

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and selecting the second icon,
Tile All in Grid, which will

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create as many windows as
are necessary to contain

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all of your open documents
and now I'm just going to

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click inside of each one
of them and press ctrl + 0

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or cmd + 0 on the Mac so
that we can see each one of

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these documents on screen and
those are the various ways to

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manage multiple open documents
here inside Illustrator.