Creating a LayOut document is mostly about bringing content into your document. But if you ever want to reuse or update a document’s referenced content in another format or program (and you don’t have the original file or updated the content after you imported it into your document), you can extract any file that your document references.

To access LayOut’s presentation features, select View > Start Presentation or click the Start Presentation tool () on the default toolbar. Your document becomes full screen, and you have access to the following presentation features:

LayOut’s Preferences dialog contains options that can help you customize LayOut in a way that works best for you. Each section of Preferences covers a different set of options. 

Keyboard shortcuts let you customize LayOut to work more efficiently. Through the Shortcuts section of the LayOut Preferences dialog box, you can:View LayOut commands and shortcutsFind specific commandsAdd or edit a shortcutDelete shortcutsLayOut includes the following default shortcuts:

LayOut’s scrapbooks help you store and access a wide variety of reusable entities. The Scrapbooks panel contains several premade scrapbooks for common entities like arrows or signs. You can also create your own custom scrapbooks for things like company logos or branding elements.Premade ScrapbooksTo get you started, LayOut includes the following premade scrapbooks:

Note: Style Builder is no longer included when downloading SketchUp and will no longer be supported. For more information see End of Support — Style Builder.In Style Builder, you can set a few Preferences options: