Course Outline
- Introduction
- Opening, closing, and saving documents
- Setting InDesign preferences
- Setting up the Workspace
- Using tools and panels
- InDesign help and resources
- What you need to know first
- Working with InDesign documents and templates
- Moving to different pages and zooming in and out
- Working with rulers, grids and guidelines
- Types of objects used in InDesign
- Managing documents and views
- Changing appearances
- Un-doing and re-doing in InDesign
- Moving, duplicating, resizing and deleting page objects
- Creating and Setting Up Your Document
- Creating a Document or Template file
- Setting and editing the number of pages, page margins, page columns
- Understanding your final destination and working with margins and bleed
- Adding, deleting and sorting pages
- What is a Master Page and why use one?
- Adding, editing and deleting Master Pages and Master Page objects
- Working with text
- Editing existing text frames
- Placing Word and other text files into the layout
- Formatting your text
- Working with bullets and numbered lists
- Creating and editing style sheets
- Working with text in columns
- Flowing your text across multiple pages
- Working with graphics and images
- Editing an existing image and graphic frame
- Placing images and graphics in the layout
- Fitting graphics with their frames
- Placing graphics in a grid
- Resizing and rotating graphics
- Managing and editing graphics
- Wrapping text around objects
- Working with Objects
- Drawing and adding shapes and page items
- Editing corners and other object effects
- Common tips for easier and quicker page layout
- Transforming and scaling options
- Using the Layers Panel to manage your objects
- Drawing and editing a grid of objects
- Working with Colour
- Adding, deleting and editing colours
- Working with Swatches
- Working with different inks and spot colours
- Working with colour blends/gradients
- Creating and browsing preset colour themes
- Saving and Exporting
- Checking the document for common errors, and fixing these errors
- Printing your document
- Saving a document for previous versions
- Exporting a PDF for final Web and Print output
- Layout Techniques
- Working with multiple Master pages and the Primary text frame
- Inserting graphics in-line with text and anchoring graphics to paragraphs
- Grouping, aligning and positioning objects easily and correctly
- Using the spell checking and find/change features
- Working with Tables in InDesign
- Creating, deleting and editing tables
- Inserting graphics in-line with text and anchoring graphics to paragraphs
- Converting text to tables
- Importing tables from other applications
- Fitting and editing tables
- Formatting tables and cells
- Flowing tables across pages
