InDesign for Editors

Writers and editors: this InDesign course is for you. Learn how to efficiently edit and format text, navigate a document, and overcome problems when working with text in InDesign.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. The InDesign Environment

• Opening and saving InDesign documents
• The InDesign interface
• Working with panels and creating an editorial workspace
• Recovering from mistakes
• Guides and nonprinting visual aids
• Changing view size and navigating a document

2. Editing Text

• Text selection methods
• Basic text editing
• Common problems when editing text
• Changing case
• Accessing special characters
• Editing tables
• Bulleted and numbered lists
• Using Find/Change

3. Editorial Panels and Features

• The Story Editor
• Spell-checking and Dynamic Spelling
• The Info panel
• The Notes panel
• The Track Changes panel

4. How InDesign Documents Are Constructed

• Text frames
• Master pages
• Layers
• Paragraph and character styles
• The Paragraph Composer

5. Controlling Text Breaks

• Hyphenation
• Page and column breaks
• Breaking lines for sense
• Fixing widows and orphans

Conclusion

• Goodbye and next steps