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In this course, you will learn:
how to navigate and customize the workspace, manage documents and pages, work with text frames and graphics, export and print finished documents, create interactive documents and forms, and much more.
Syllabus :
- InDesign: Learn the fundamentals
- Using the exercise files
1. Learn InDesign in 30 Minutes
- Getting started
- Adding or editing text
- Adding or replacing graphics
- Locked content
- Moving objects around
- Printing and exporting PDF
- Chapter Quiz
2. Creating a Document
- New documents
- Guides and measurements
- Adding text frames
- Typing and editing text
- Choose a better workspace for editing
- Applying basic text formatting
- Importing graphics
- Saving and reverting documents
- Chapter Quiz
3. Managing Pages
- Inserting, deleting, and moving pages
- Creating and applying master pages
- Overriding master page items
- Changing page size and margins
- Setting bleed and slug guides
- Adding page numbering
- Chapter Quiz
4. Text
- Importing text
- Threading text frames
- Setting text frame attributes
- Inserting special characters
- Using the Story Editor
- Checking spelling
- Using Find/Change
- Putting text on a path
- Chapter Quiz
5. Graphics
- Options when placing images
- Locked content
- Using the Links panel
- Editing graphics in their original app
- Cropping and fitting graphics
- Chapter Quiz
6. Color and Transparency
- Stroking and filling frames and paths
- Transparency, drop shadows, and effects
- Creating color swatches
- The danger (and power) of unnamed colors
- Creating and applying gradient swatches
- Chapter Quiz
7. Frames and Paths
- Locked content
- Drawing path and frame shapes
- Adjusting corner options
- Creating text outlines
- Chapter Quiz
8. Managing Objects
- Resizing and rotating objects
- Duplicating objects and making grids
- Moving objects above or below each other
- Creating and controlling layers
- Aligning and distributing
- Understanding text wrap
- Using anchored objects
- Chapter Quiz
9. Text Formatting
- Applying advanced character formatting
- Using Find Font
- Applying formatting to a paragraph
- Using drop caps
- Adding rules (lines) above or below
- Setting tabs and tab stops
- Spanning and splitting paragraphs
- Adding automatic bullets and numbers
- Using Find/Change for text formatting
- Highlighting paragraphs with boxes
- Chapter Quiz
10. Styles
- Creating and applying paragraph styles
- Using character styles
- Editing, clearing, and redefining styles
- Using object styles
- Chapter Quiz
11. Tables
- Creating a table
- Adjusting rows and columns
- Formatting a table
- Formatting cells
- Chapter Quiz
12. Interactive Documents
- Adding hyperlinks
- Creating an interactive PDF
- Exporting to the web with Publish Online
- Chapter Quiz
13. Package, Print, and Exporting
- Packaging for output and archive
- Using the print dialog box
- Exporting a PDF
- Chapter Quiz
