Course Outline
- Brief Review / Tips and Tricks
- The InDesign workspace
- Working with images
- Working with text and text frames
- Using Adobe Bridge, Libraries and Snippits
- Working with Long Documents
- Navigating longer documents
- Adding/deleting/duplicating/moving pages
- Working with spreads and the Page tool
- Using master pages to duplicate headers, footers and page properties
- Overriding and master page items on document pages
- Changing and reapplying master items
- Automatic page numbering and numbering and section options
- Flowing large stories over large page ranges
- Working with Style Sheets
- Why use style sheets?
- Defining and using paragraph and character styles
- Loading and importing styles between documents
- Applying styles and style overrides to text
- Clearing overrides, redefining and deleting styles
- Hyphenation and justification
- Keeping lines and paragraphs together
- Nesting styles for efficiency
- Working with bullets and numbered lists
- Using the next style feature to format large ranges of type quickly and easily
- Working with object styles, text frame options, object effects and transparency effects
- Document text features
- Headers and footers
- Footnotes and endnotes
- Working with live text variables
- Working with automatic image captions
- Tracking changes in the text story
- Working with Books
- What is a book and why use one?
- Creating/opening/deleting books
- Adding/removing/replacing documents
- Synchronizing books
- Printing/exporting books
- Table of Contents (TOC)
- Review of paragraph styles, using tabs in styles
- Creating TOC entry styles
- Generating the TOC
- Saving the general TOC style
- Updating the TOC
- Using a TOC with books
- Indexes
- Creating index items
- Modifying/deleting index items
- Generating the index file
- Working with indexes with books
