Expert: James Fritz - 12/16/2009

Question
In Indesign CS3 there was a great tool bar called the control bar which had options to get to almost everything. ie text wrap, paragraph pallette, create new page etc etc. The best part about this tool bar was that it allowed you to access the tab pallette with out having top go into paragraph style directory  options and scrolling down and clicking yet again....my question is ; I am working in CS4 and I see no such tool bar available. Now I need to go through 2 or 3 strokes to get to the tab options. Is there something I am missing? Is there a quicker way to access the tab bar without having to resort to the paragraph style dialogue boxes?

Answer
Maria,

I am sorry, but what you are thinking of is called the command bar (used to be called the page-maker toolbar in CS2 and CS). This was removed in CS4.

Regarding tabs, the quickest way to get to tabs is to hit Cmd+shift-T (ctrl+shift+T on pc) to bring up the tab panel. Otherwise you can always go to the type menu and choose tabs from the drop down menu.