Work Faster with InDesign

Do you want to work faster with InDesign? Work more intuitively? Know you’re doing things the best way? This course distills my 20+ years of using and teaching InDesign to many thousands of students. In course you’ll learn more than 100 of InDesign’s best shortcuts, tips and tricks. I can guarantee you’ll not only use it much faster, but with more accuracy and confidence too.

• Introduction
• Navigation shortcuts general
• Navigating with text
• Switching between the selection tool and the type tool
• Hiding grids and guides
• Scrolling the screen using shortcut keys
• Get in and out of presentation mode
• Hide and show panels quickly
• Switching and resetting workspaces
• About custom workspaces
• Prepare a custom workspace
• Save and amend a custom workspace
• Using alphabetical menus and quick apply
• Finding keyboard shortcuts
• Creating keyboard shortcuts
• Placibg multiple images and fill frame proportionally
• Using gridify and the content collector
• Quick sorting images with Bridge
• Preemptive fill frame proportionally
• Apply fill frame proportionally by default
• Scaling an image with a keyboard shortcut
• Select an object behind another object and scale its contents
• Scaling a logo by dragging
• Scale a logo to a specific size
• Quick text selection shortcuts
• Text navigation shortcuts
• Selecting to the end of a story
• Change text size with keyboard shortcuts
• Adjust tracking & kerning with keyboard shortcuts
• Navigating the control panel with keyboard shortcuts
• How to toggle between paragraph and character options in the control panel
• The most useful shortcuts for tweaking text
• Sampling colours from an image
• Applying swatches with arrow keys
• Previewing text colours
• New document shortcuts & jump to page
• Organising pages with colours and prefixes
• A more useful page panel
• Removing multiple spaces or multiple returns quickly
• Changing dashes to em dashes quickly
• An additional window for overset text
• Why you should use paragraph styles
• How to create a paragraph style
• Quickly getting text consistent
• Quickly redefining a paragraph style
• Quickly apply paragraph styles
• Quickly apply paragraph styles on a laptop
• Save hours using next style
• Easily locate low res images
• Quickly discover where your images reside
• Quickly copy your links
• Save time with a preflight profile
• Export faster to pdf
• How to adjust a gridify gap
• Adjusting scale & spacing of multiple objects
• Automatic object placement with libraries