The Item menu includes commands for controlling item attributes, positions, grouping, sharing, and more.

• Modify: Lets you access a comprehensive set of controls such as color, shade, position, size, frame, runaround, clipping path, and more for an item.
• Frame: Lets you specify frame attributes such as width, style, color, and opacity for an item.
• Runaround: Lets you specify whether text runs inside, outside, or through a picture or its picture box.
• Clipping: Lets you select the clipping type for a given item and control its outset.
• Duplicate: Lets you create a copy of an item and its contents.
• Step and Repeat: Lets you duplicate an active item multiple times, and in any position you specify.
• Super Step and Repeat: Lets you duplicate an active item multiple times and specify scale, rotation, and shading for the duplicates.
• Delete: Lets you delete a selected item and its contents.
• Group: Lets you combine two or more active items (including lines, boxes, text paths, tables, and other groups) into a group.
• Ungroup: Lets you break a group into its component items or groups.
• Constrain: Lets you restrict an item so that it cannot move beyond the boundaries of the item to which it is constrained.
• Lock: Lets you prevent accidental changes to items and their contents by locking its position or content.
• Merge: Lets you merge selected items in a number of ways.
• Split: Lets you split boxes that contain non-overlapping shapes, split boxes that contain shapes within shapes, or split boxes that contain a border that crosses over itself (such as a figure eight).
• Send Backward (Windows only): Moves an item one level backward in the page or layer’s stacking order.
• Send to Back: Moves an item to the back of the page or layer. On Mac OS, press Option before choosing Send to Back to access the Send Backward command.
• Bring Forward (Windows only): Moves an item one level forward in the page or layer’s stacking order.
• Bring to Front: Moves an item to the front of the page or layer. On Mac OS, press Option before choosing Bring to Front to access the Send Forward command.
• Space/Align: Lets you position the selected items evenly with regard to each other or with regard to the page or spread.
• Shape: Lets you change the shape of an active item.
• Content: Lets you change the content type of an item.
• Edit: Lets you modify item shape, runaround, or clipping path.
• Share: Lets you access sharing properties of an item and synchronize or re-use content such as text, pictures, boxes, lines, and Composition Zones.
• Unsynchronize: Removes synchronization of a single instance of the item without affecting other occurrences of that item (or the synchronization attributes).
• Point/Segment Type: Lets you change the point or segment type of an item so you can manipulate points, curve handles, and line segments.
• Drop Shadow: Lets you apply or modify an item’s drop shadow.
• Composition Zones: Lets you create or modify Composition Zones.
• Preview Resolution: Lets you set the preview of a picture to full resolution or low resolution.
• Delete All Hot Areas (Web layouts only): Removes the image map designations of a picture that serve as hyperlinks.
• Cascading Menu (Web layouts only): Lets you apply a cascading menu to an item that has been specified to export as a graphic.
• Basic Rollover (Web layouts only): Lets you apply a basic rollover to an item so that the image will change when the mouse pointer is over the rollover box.
• 2-position Rollovers (Web layouts only): Apply a 2-position rollover to an item so that the image in one or more other boxes will change when the mouse pointer is over the rollover box.