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Choose View > Show Inspector.

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The buttons at the top of the Inspector
window open the ten inspectors:
Document, Layout, Wrap, Text, Graphic,
Metrics, Table, Chart, Link, and QuickTime.

Click any of the buttons at the top of the Inspector window to display a particular
inspector. Hold the pointer over a button to display its name. Clicking the fourth
button from the left, for example, displays the Text inspector.
To open another Inspector window, choose View > New Inspector.

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The Media Browser

The Media Browser provides access to all the media files in your iPhoto library, your
iTunes library, your Aperture library, and your Movies folder. You can drag an item from
the Media Browser to a page or to an image well in an inspector.

Click a button to view the
files in your iTunes library,
your iPhoto library, your
Aperture library, or your
Movies folder.

Drag a file to your document.

Search for a file.

If you don’t use iPhoto or Aperture to store your photos, or iTunes for your music, or
if you don’t keep your movies in the Movies folder, you can add other folders to the
Media Browser so that you can access their multimedia contents in the same way.

To open the Media Browser:
Click Media in the toolbar or choose View > Show Media Browser.

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To add another folder to the Media Browser, do any of the following:
To add a folder containing audio files, click Audio in the Media Browser, and then drag

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the folder you want from the Finder to the Media Browser.

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