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Adobe InDesign Training, Basic Level

2-day Course

Basics

Creating a New Document
Guides and Grids
Master pages

Frames, placeholders and shapes

Drawing and editing shapes, frames and placeholders
Filling objects with colour and gradients
Stroking objects
Drawing text and graphic frames
Transforming objects
Pen tool: creating and editing organic shapes

Type

Creating text frames
Importing text
Editing text
Spell checking
Text frame options
Special characters
Find/Change
Formatting
Character and paragraph panels
Tabs, leaders and indents
Drop caps
Rules

Styles

Creating, refining and applying character and paragraph styles
Removing styles from selected text
Importing and deleting styles
Nested styles
Keyboard shortcuts

Imagery

Importing images
Modifying graphic frames and contents
Creating in-line frames
Object runaround / wrap
Links panel management

Layers

Grouping and separating objects
Creating layers
Working with the layers panel
Merging and deleting layers
Moving and copying objects between layers

Tables

Converting text to tables
Basic tables and content
Inserting and deleting rows and columns
Selectiing and formatting tables
Breaking tables across frames, adding strokes and fills.

Transparency

Creating transparent effects
Feathering
Drop shadows
Corner effects

Libraries

Object libraries
Changing the display
Cataloging

Output

Preflight
Packaging And Printing
Live-checking existing files

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