Adobe InDesign - Fundamentals

Introducing the Workspace   

• Looking at the workspace
• Working with panels
• Customizing the workspace
• Changing the magnification of a document
• Navigating through a document
• Using context menus

InDesign   

• Preflighting as you work
• Viewing guides
• Adding text
• Styles
• Graphics
• Objects
• Object styles

Setting Up a Document and Working with Pages   

• Creating and saving custom document settings
• Creating a new document
• Switching between open InDesign documents
• Master pages
• Applying master pages to document pages
• Adding new document pages
• Rearranging and deleting document pages
• Changing the size of pages
• Adding sections to change page numbering
• Placing text and graphics on document pages
• Overriding master page items on document pages
• Viewing the completed spread
• Creating a template (open normal, copy, and original)

Objects   

• Layers
• Creating and modifying text frames
• Creating and modifying graphics frames
• Adding metadata captions to graphics frames
• Placing and linking graphics frames
• Changing the shape of a frame
• Wrapping text around a graphic
• Modifying the shape of frames
• Transforming and aligning objects
• Selecting and modifying grouped objects
• Using the Content Collector Tool

Flowing Text   

• Flowing text into an existing frame
• Slowing text manually
• Creating text frames while flowing text
• Flowing text automatically
• Creating threaded frames automatically
• Resizing text frames automatically
• Adding a jump line page number

Editing Text   

• Finding and changing a missing font
• Entering and importing text
• Finding and changing text and formatting
• Checking spelling
• Editing text by dragging and dropping
• Using the story editor
• Tracking changes

Typography   

• Adjusting vertical spacing
• Changing fonts and type styles
• Fine-tuning columns
• Changing paragraph alignment
• Creating a drop cap
• Adjusting letter and word spacing
• Setting tabs
• Adding a rule above a paragraph

Color   

• Managing color
• Synchronizing color settings in Adobe Bridge
• Specifying color setting in InDesign
• Displaying images at full resolution
• Proofing colors onscreen
• Creating and applying colors
• Working with gradients
• Creating a tint
• Creating a spot color
• Applying colors to text and objects
• Using advanced gradient techniques

Styles   

• Creating and applying paragraph and character styles
• Nesting character styles inside paragraph styles
• Creating and applying object styles, tables, and cell styles
• Globally updating styles
• Loading styles from another document

Importing and Modifying Graphics   

• Adding graphics from other programs
• Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
•  Managing links to imported files
• Updating revised graphics
• Adjusting display quality
• Clipping paths
• Alpha channels
• Importing native Adobe graphic files
•  Using a library to manage objects
• Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics
• Snippets

Creating Tables   

• Converting text to a table
• Formatting a table
• Creating a header row
• Adding graphics to a table cells
• Creating and applying table and cell styles

Printing and Exporting   

• Preflighting files
• Packaging files
• Creating and Adobe PDF proof
• Previewing separations
• Previewing how transparency effects will be flattened
• Previewing the page
• Printing a laser or inkjet proof
• Using the ink manager