Tip of the Week: Toggle Zoom Levels
With this tip to toggle zoom levels in InDesign, you can quickly switch between the two most recent views of your layout with a simple keyboard shortcut.
This InDesign tip on how to toggle zoom levels was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on August 4, 2016.

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Ever need to keep going back and forth between two different magnification levels? Like if you wanted to see how changing one object on the page would affect the look of the whole layout?
Then you need to remember this keyboard shortcut: Command+Opt+2 (Mac) Ctrl+Alt+2 (Windows). Pressing this key command toggles between the current and previous zoom levels. Try it!
This article was last modified on July 25, 2019
This article was first published on August 9, 2016
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