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Figure 1-23 Insert panel categories

Category Description

Common Create and insert the most frequently used objects, such as images, hyperlinks, media

elements, and tables

Layout Draw and insert tables, div tags, Spry elements, and frames as well as switch between

Standard and Expanded Tables modes

Forms Create and insert form elements in pages that include interactive forms

Data Insert Spry data objects and other dynamic elements, such as recordsets and

repeated regions

Spry Insert Spry elements, including widgets and Spry data objects

InContext
Editing

Insert editable and repeating regions into pages so that your clients can update the
content of their pages online using Adobe's InContext Editing Service

Text Insert text and list formatting tags such as bold (b), unordered list (ul), and paragraph (p)

Favorites Organize your most commonly used Insert panel buttons in one location

The Insert panel displays the Common category by default. You'll explore some of the
categories on the Insert panel.

To explore the Insert panel:

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1. Click the Insert panel to open it, then click the category button to display the cat-
egory list, and click Common , if necessary. The Insert panel is open and buttons
in the Common category are displayed. See Figure 1-24.

Figure 1-24 Common category in the Insert panel

selected category;
click to select
another category

Common category buttons

click a button with an arrow
to open a menu of buttons
with related commands

To display the Insert panel
as a toolbar, drag its panel
tab below the Application
bar. To switch between
category tabs and a menu
button, right-click a tab
and click Show as Menu or
click the menu button and
click Show as Tabs.

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2. In the Insert panel, click the Images button arrow . The Images menu opens.
Press the Esc key. The Images menu closes.

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3. In the Insert panel, click the category button, and then click Layout . The buttons
for creating commonly used layout elements appear in the Insert panel.

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4. In the Insert panel, click the category button, and then click Forms . The buttons
for creating a form and inserting form elements such as buttons, menus, check
boxes, and images appear in the Insert panel.