But otherwise we're not seeing anything in the way of those width or height values and we're not allowed to change how many artboards we have. But in Illustrator, clicking on either one brings up this dialog box right here which allows you to change the bleed values if you like and you can modify your unit of measure. Now in another application, you'd expect this Document Setup button to let you change the quantity and even location of your pages. Now notice when the black arrow is selected up here at the top of the toolbox that we have a Document Setup button both in the horizontal control panel and down here at the bottom of the properties panel. Now you don't usually need to see both of them because they mostly duplicate each other but I want you to have a clear understanding of what's going on. And that way we can see both the very large properties panel on the right side of the screen as well as the more streamlined control panel which is this horizontal strip up here at the top of the screen. Then go ahead and bring up that menu again and choose Reset Essentials Classic. Now, before I go any further, I want you to go up to this workspace option in the top right portion of the screen, and if necessary, choose Essentials Classic from the menu. So with that, I'll go ahead and cancel out here. Well, that's great for creating a new document and it's a pretty traditional approach, but that's not how it works when editing an existing document. And if I were to click on the More Settings button, then I can decide how those artboards are arranged, how many columns we have, the spacing between the artboards and so on. So you may remember from the previous chapter that we went up to the File menu and chose the New command and that gave us the ability not only to change the size of the artboards but to change the number of artboards as well. Well, artboards inside the Illustrator work very differently than pages inside other programs. So let's say I want to take artboard one right here and I want to move it to a different location here inside this document. And so if Illustrator's way seem bizarre at first, I want them to make perfect sense in the end because this really is a practical and powerful feature. And that's because Illustrator handles artboards differently than I've seen any other program handle just about anything. And I want to warn you up front, especially if you're new to Illustrator, that we're going to take a bit of a slow and winding approach to this topic. In this movie, I'll show you how to move an artboard with and without its contents using the Artboard tool.
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