InDesign Introduction

Course Contents

Basics

• Creating and saving a file
• Opening & Closing a file
• The InDesign approach to page -layout
• Overview of main features
• Exploring the interface
• Overview of tools & palettes
• Navigating through documents
• Zooming
• Printing

Working with Text

• Using Text frames
• Importing text files
• Using Character formatting
• Working with tabs
• Working with Paragraph formatting
• Indenting of text
• Find and replace
• Spell-check
• Running text around images
• Creating threads

Styles

• Advantages of using styles
• Creating character and paragraph styles
• Setting parent and child styles
• Applying styles
• Importing styles

Graphics

• Graphic frames
• Overview of graphic formats
• Importing graphics
• Resizing graphics
• Links palette
• Using in-line graphics
• Cropping graphics

Tables

• Creating tables
• Formatting tables
• Imported tab delimited text files
• Importing Word and Excel tables
• Filling alternating rows or columns

Page Layout Options

• Setting your margins
• Using a layout grid Creating custom guides
• Multi-columns layouts
• Using frame-based & Page- based columns

Time: The course starts at 09:30 and runs until 16:30.

The course is run on a date that suits you! We do not run public scheduled courses.