InDesign CS4: Advanced

Delivery method
Classroom based, maximum 5 delegates

Course description

DAY ONE

Advanced text controls

• Using the Info panel
• Creating custom glyph sets
• Inserting special characters
• Adding copy breaks
• Advanced Find/Change options
• Finding and changing fonts
• Using type on a path
• Frame based baseline grid
• Advanced text wrap options

Working with tables

• Creating tables
• Adding text and graphics
• Importing from Word and Excel
• Editing tables
• Running headers and footers
• Creating table and cells styles

Advanced type formatting options

• Importing styles from Word
• MS Word import presets
• Creating looping nested styles
• Controlling how headings align to a baseline grid
• Creating balanced headline text
• Adding rules above and below
• Creating balanced headlines
• Controlling paragraph breaks
• Working with composition
• Setting composition preferences
• Advanced hyphenation controls
• Advanced justification controls
• Preventing word breaks
• Advanced Next Style options
• Creating footnotes
• Automatic bullets or numbering

Combining text and graphics

• Creating object styles
• Justifying text next to an object
• Choosing which text frames are affected by text wraps
• Anchoring objects
• Advanced text wrap options
• Sharing colour swatches across applications
• Importing multi-page PDFs
• Layer visibility options

Working with pages and spreads

• Creating multi-page spreads
• Copying pages between documents
• Controlling spread pagination
• Automatic layout adjustments

Questions and answers

Suitable for
An Adobe authorised advanced course which will teach existing users the more advanced features and enable you to dramatically increase your productivity and creativity.

Requirements
You should have attended either the introduction to Adobe InDesign or the Adobe InDesign Migration course at Media Training or have an equivalent working knowledge.