InDesign: Beyond the Essentials

Covers a wide range of advanced topics from interface customization to advanced properties of layout and text.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Managing Your Document Window

• Managing more than one document window
• Positioning your panels
• Setting up Mini Bridge
• Saving a workspace
• Displaying a new window or split screen
• Rotating pages and spreads

2. Setting Up InDesign and Your New Document

• Setting application and document preferences
• Learning and editing keyboard shortcuts
• Customizing InDesign menus

3. Layout Techniques

• Parent/child master pages
• Starting a document on a left page
• Adding alternate layouts
• Saving objects in libraries
• Exporting and importing page snippets

4. Advanced Text and Typography

• Filling with placeholder text
• Tracking text changes
• Choosing other languages
• Adjusting text hyphenation and justification
• Adding hanging punctuation with Optical Margin Alignment
• Controlling orphans and widows with Keep Options
• Aligning to a baseline grid
• Setting vertical justification and first baseline position

5. Paragraph and Character Styles

• Applying styles automatically with nested and line styles
• The basics of GREP styles
• Using Break Link to Style
• Exploring style groups

6. Long-Document Text Techniques

• Including footnotes
• Working with cross-references
• Indexing a document
• Exploring conditional text

7. Advanced Graphic Techniques

• Importing InDesign files
• Advanced Links panel features
• Embedding links
• Adding live and static captions
• Turning image layers on and off

8. Paths

• Using advanced strokes
• Using Pathfinder and compound paths
• Using InDesign and Illustrator together

9. Advanced Layout

• Power scaling techniques
• Making grids
• Power spacing
• Making objects nonprinting
• Default graphics and text frame styles

Conclusion

• Going ever deeper with InDesign