InDesign Essentials Course

InDesign Interface

• InDesign Basics
• Open Documents
• Page Views
• Hand Tool
• Panels
• Multiple Documents
• Workspaces
• Custom Workspaces
• Create New Documents
• Document Setup
• Text Frames
• Frame Tools
• Create Frames
• Preferences
• Units and Increments

Text Basics

• Text Frames
• Default Screen Mode
• Text Frames & Typing Text
• Overset Text
• Format Text Frames
• Simple Edits
• Select & Move Text
• Cut, Copy and Paste
• Character Attributes

Add Text & Format Paragraphs

• Create Document Preset
• Place Text
• Drag & Drop In Layout
• Align Paragraphs
• Paragraph Spacing
• Multiple Columns
• Indents & Spacing
• Leading
• Paragraph Rules
• Bullets & Numbers
• Hanging Indents
• Edit Bullets
• Custom Bullets
• Numbered Lists

Advanced Threading

• Place Longer Text Files
• Multiple Page Text Flow
• Navigate MultiPage Docs
• Page Panel Options
• Insert & Delete Pages
• Master Text Frames
• Step & Repeat
• Ruler Guides
• Thread Text Frames
• Unthreading & Edit Threads
• Threading Techniques
• Thread With Shapes

Tab Stops, Strokes & Inset Spacing

• Tabs Basics
• Set & AdjustTab Stops
• Tab Leaders
• Decimal Tab Stops
• Hanging Indents
• Eyedropper Tool
• Stroke a Frame
• Inset Spacing
• Vertical Justification

Graphics & Clipping Paths

• Place Images
• Existing Frames
• Move & Resize Images
• Rotate & Skew Images
• Resize Shortcuts
• Create Clipping Paths
• Thresholds & Insets
• Customise Clipping Path

Objects & Gradients

• Step & Repeat
• Align Objects
• Group & Ungroup
• Lock Position
• Resize Group
• Smart Guides
• Combine Objects
• Compound Paths
• Stacking Order
• Shape Editing
• Add Arrowheads
• Change Frame Content
• Object Styles
• Create Gradient Swatches
• Create Object Styles

Activity – Create Flyer, Prepare for Printing

• Multi-Column Text Frames
• Page Borders
• Find/Change
• Paragraph Styles
• Use Guides
• Place Graphics
• Text Wrap
• Dynamic Spell Check
• Spell Check Document
• Autocorrect
• Package Documents
• Create a PDF

CMYK Colour, Libraries & Bridge

• Units and Increments
• Load & Delete Document Presets
• Create & Modify Objects
• CMYK Colour Basics
• Process Colours
• Libraries
• Adobe Bridge

Master Pages, Page Numbering & Text Wrapping

• Create Master Pages
• Add Master Page Objects
• Add Spread Guides
• Automatic Page Numbers
• Duplicate & Rename Master Pages
• Enable Layout Adjustment
• Assign Master Pages
• Custom Text Wrap

Styles

• Body Text Paragraph Styles
• Heading Styles
• The Story Editor
• Edit Styles
• Orphan Widow Control
• Keep Options
• Direct Formats
• Create Styles Based on Selection
• Baseline Grid
• Drop Caps
• Character & Nested Styles

Tracking, Kerning & Hyphenation

• Tracking
• Kerning
• Adjust Hyphenation
• User Dictionaries
• Hyphenation Exceptions
• Discretionary Hyphens
• Prevent Text From Breaking

Tables with Styles

• Create Tables
• Add Data, Columns & Rows
• Combine Cells & Format Text
• Format Table
• Rotate Text
• Cell Stroke Weight
• Graphics in Tables
• Text to Table
• Text to a Table
• Scale Tables and Content
• Table & Cell Styles
• Create a Table Style

Fonts, Links & Templates

• Fonts in InDesign
• Find & Replace Fonts
• Image Links
• Templates

Layers, Inline Graphics & Anchored Objects

• Layers Basics
• Create & Modify Layers
• Move Objects to Layers
• Hide & Show Layers
• Reorder Layers
• Inline Graphics
• Show Object Threads
• Object Styles

Create Books

• Book Basics
• Create a Book
• Add, Reorder & Remove Documents
• Synchronise Files