A couple of final navigation techniques here. Notice these little icons at the bottom of the toolbox, they allow you to switch from one Full Screen Mode to the other. Now, by default, this first guy is active, the Standard Screen Mode icon, which means that you see the illustration inside of a window with scroll bars on the right side and at the bottom of the window and so on, the title bar at the top of the screen. However, if you click on this second icon or if you press the keyboard shortcut which is just the F key, F for Full Screen, you will fill the screen with your illustration.
That is a great way to focus just on your illustration without seeing any other, even any other opened illustrations that are going on. If you press the F key again, you switch to the Full Screen Mode without the menu bar, notice the menu bar goes away as well and you are inside the Super Pro Mode where you have to know all the keyboard shortcuts, but don't panic, you can always go back to the Regular View Mode, that Standard Edit Mode, and you can bring back your menu bar by pressing the F key a third time.
So F cycles you between these various modes, Standard, Full Screen, Full Screen without menu bar back to Standard. Once you go to the Fill Screen without menu bar, or really at any point, you can also get rid of all of your palettes by pressing the Tab key. So if you press the Tab key, you are going to see just your illustration and that is all, that is all you are going to see inside of the big Application window here.
So this is F once again inside of the Standard illustration window without the toolbox and palettes. This is without everything except the menu bar and then F again just focuses on that illustration. Notice, I have even gotten rid of the parameters of my Application window if I press the F key after I have tabbed away my palettes. Now again it's nothing to worry about if you are sitting here in this mode without anything on screen, you can even press Ctrl+R or Command+R on the Mac to get rid of those rulers and you are just looking at the illustration and that is it, and you're starting to panic because you can't figure out what to do anymore. You do not know what tools to use, you don't know where your menus are. Once again, you press the F key to bring back those menus, but you can also press the Tab key to bring back your palettes.
So Tab makes the palettes go away, Tab again makes the palettes come back. If you just want to hide and show the palettes along the right hand side of the screen, in other words you want to keep you Control palette and your toolbar open, then you press Shift+Tab just to make those right hand palettes, the floating palettes, wherever they maybe organized on screen to make them go away, Shift+Tab again to bring them back.
So I am just going to press Tab to get rid of my palettes. I am going to press the F key a couple of times in order to just show the illustration so we can just see the illustration on screen. I am going to zoom in just a little bit so that illustration is really filling things. This is the way we are going to end many of our lessons. So I just want you to see this in this big Full Screen Mode, which is a happy thing because we are about to encounter many of those future lessons. In fact, lesson four is coming right at you.
Now that we have both gotten our versions of Illustrator working the same, and we know how to navigate inside of the Illustration window, we are ready to start drawing inside the very next lesson, lesson four.
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