Adobe InDesign Training, For Editors

2-day Course

Starting a new document

Editorial workspace
Panels
Tools
Setting document specifications and further options

Saving your document
Organising and managing files

Modifying the document properties


Navigation

Guides and grids
Zooming tool plus shortcuts
Using guides to help control layout
Maths specifications
Specifiying fill and other properties for shapes

Setting line style, colour and arrows for lines


Text & Typography

Text frames: creating, editing, and properties
Type properties: size, font, style, alignment, hyphenation
Changing leading, tracking and kerning

Paragraph V character formatting
Importing, dummy text
Spell-checking
Text column control
Text flow
Text wraparound on objects
Glyphs and fine control
Referencing and indexing
Threading frames together
Style sheets
Hyphenation and justification
Working with text from other software
Importing style sheets from Microsoft Word
Fine-tuning typographic control
Drop caps, paragraph rules


Imagery

Replacing imagery
Basic editing and resizing
Shape editing
Pasting options
Placing options
Smart Objects


Style Sheets

Character v Paragraph Style Sheets - when to apply which
Applying and editing Style Sheets
Importing style sheets from other documents


Tables

Simple tables and using tables as ingenious solutions
Formatting cell properties

Adding images to cells
Resizing, merging, adding or removing row or column cells 

Importing table data from spreadsheets
Creating tables from selected text
Cell inset spacing


Page Management

Adding new pages
Organising pages
Deleting pages 

Grid styles
Master page basics
Adding content to the master page
Sectioning
Unlocking items from masters
Spread rotations
Cross referencing
Links and references
Running heads
Long documents
Indexing


Layers

Creating, deleting, locking, suppressing
Selecting items from layers
Conditional text layers


Production

Checking links
Checking overprint
Flattener preview
Separations preview
Trapping presets
Attributes
Layer overrides


Saving and Printing

Saving profiles
PDF control
Separations
Asset management
Library Control
Import styling markers
Defining Preferences


Output

Layer control and item print suppressing
Collecting for output, and pitfalls
Utilities and managers
Sharing attributes
Editing attributes
Creating PDF files
Default tool properties and how to change them
Predefined colours
Output to PDF
PDF standards
Basic interactivity
Export to web formats

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