But this time, we're going to drag it right out of a folder on the desktop. And this one, I decided I don't really want after all so I'll hit the escape key to throw it away. I'll scroll up to the previous spread and I'm going to place one of those inside this frame here. Now, let's click okay and InDesign loads up both of those images into the place cursor. But I should point out that I could actually bring all of them in if I want to by clicking the all button here.

And we can move through them one at a time. Here we can see that there are three total pages, or artboards, in this document. Show import options tells InDesign that when you click the open button it should open a new dialog box, one that gives you more options. To do that, turn on the show import options check box here in the place dialog box. When you have file that has multiple pages, or artboards, you can tell InDesign which page or artboard you actually want to import. But this same technique would also work with a PDF file that has multiple pages. This is a native Illustrator file with multiple art boards. Now, let's choose this image called HP_Logos.ai. First, I'll go back to the file menu and choose place. Okay, I'm going to show you two more techniques for importing images. So I'm going to get rid of it by pressing the escape key on my keyboard. And this image, I decided I don't want after all. Now the cursor changed because I only have three more images to go. Let's move through here until we find the one we want. In fact, you can actually move through those one at a time by pressing the left or right arrow keys on the keyboard. You can tell that there are four because there's a little blue four inside parenthesis next to the cursor. Now, all four images are selected inside this dialog box so I'll click open and you'll see that all the images get loaded up into the place cursor. And I'll grab one more too, again while holding down command or control. Let's go ahead and grab another one down here. From here you can import several images at the same time by first selecting one, for example this pink bouquet, then hold down the command key on the Mac or control key on Windows and then choose another image. For example, let's open the place dialog box by pressing command+d on the Mac or control+d on Windows.

If you need to place a bunch of graphics you don't want to have to place them one at a time. Now, I want to show you a few important features that help you place multiple images quickly and give you more control over how images get placed. We've already discussed how to place an image into InDesign but only just the basics.

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