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Basics
Creating a New Document
Guides and Grids
Master pages
Preferences
Preferences exploration
Changing application and document defaults
Tool hints
Workspaces
Workspace control
Customising menus
Customising shortcuts
Multiple file view etc
Navigation and interface
New Window options
Shortcuts
Control bar
Normal, preview and presentation mode
Pages
Masters
Linking text flow
Locking and unlocking to grid
Rotating spreads
Special characters
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
Pathfinder control
Shape conversion
Object groups
Transforming objects
Step and repeat functions
Special effects
Imagery
Importing images
Modifying graphic frames and contents
Creating in-line frames
Object runaround / wrap
Links panel management
Adobe Bridge
Customising the Links panel
Importing Photoshop Files - options
Importing Illustrator Files- options
Text wrapping and cutouts
Smart Object integration
Object Layers
Re-linking based on file extension
Live image captions
Objects
Pasting objects within objects
Bezier options - creating, importing and editing
Pathfinder work
Appearance
Using Scripts
Compound paths
Hiding objects
Path and stroke work
Custom strokes
Drawing and correcting tools
Object styles
Advanced object styles
Picture fitting controls
Paragraph styles within object styles
Sampling
Text Styles
Creating, refining and applying character and paragraph styles
Removing styles from selected text
Importing and deleting styles
Nested styles
Keyboard shortcuts
Working with transparency
Gradient feather tool
Advanced transparency effects
Applying and editing effects
Object blending
Blending mode options
Transparency with groups
Isolated blending
Flattener preview panel
Working with Colour
Colour Swatch Types
Colourising Images
Naming unnamed Colours
Multi-ink colours and groups
Separations preview and ink control
Ink manager - colour aliasing
Transparency
Creating transparent effects
Feathering
Drop shadows
Corner effects
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
Rules
Styling text
Glyphs
Text wrapping options
Layer work
Paragraph rules - more features
Drop Caps
Hard and soft line breaks
Text Import options
Importing style sheets from MS Word
Creating custom dictionaries
Story editor information
Tracking text changes in Story Editor
Converting text to outlines
Find and replace
Basic GREP searches
Text variables
Running headers
Text Variables
Conditional Text for languages
Hiding text
Advanced typography
Drop caps
Image drop caps
Single line / paragraph composers
OpenType
Justification / Hyphenation controls
Custom glyph sets
Footnotes
Paragraph rule options
Optical Margin alignment
Bullets and numbering
Advanced style sheets
Next Style options
Nested style sheets
Based On styles
Overriding style sheets
Styling footnotes
Layers
Grouping and separating objects
Creating layers
Working with the layers panel
Merging and deleting layers
Moving and copying objects between layers
Tables
Fine-tuning tables through the control area
When to use tables
Converting text to tables
Basic tables and content
Inserting and deleting rows and columns
Selecting and formatting tables
Breaking tables across frames, adding strokes and fills
Defining table and individuals cell styles
Links to spreadsheets
Updating imported data
Libraries
Object libraries
Changing the display
Cataloging
Snippets
Output
Preflight
Packaging And Printing
Live-checking existing files
Long documents
Creating templates
Creating spreads
Smart Text reflow
Creating different-sized pages
Working with Master Pages
Loading / managing styles
Sectioning and numbering
Table of contents
Creating an index
Creating Chapters and Books
Cross-referencing
Running heads
Interactivity
Buttons, references and hyperlinks
Media panel
Restrictions
Exporting interactive elements
Page transitions
Adding motion, sound and video for export directly to SWF
Output
Pre-flight preparation
Looking at Print presets
Export to PDF
Export to eBooks
Documents and workflow
Eyedropper - advanced usage
Slug control
Document presets
Advanced master pages
Layer control
Conditionals
Advanced library work
Sectioning and numbering control
Baseline grid editing
Version control
Snippets
Creating dynamic cross-references
Creating a shared review
Understanding CS
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