Topic 1 The InDesign Interface

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The Welcome Screen
The Toolbox
An Overview of the Toolbox
Using context menus
The Control palette
Displaying InDesign’s palettes
Palette menus
Rearranging palettes
Arranging palettes into side tabs

Palette docking
Calculating values in palettes
Palette shortcuts and tips
Zooming in and out
The Navigator palette
Scrolling the view
Turning pages in a document
Using Workspaces
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Topic 2 InDesign Preferences

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Modifying keyboard shortcuts
Restoring preferences and defaults
Setting preferences

Application defaults and documents defaults
Using Adobe Version Cue
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Topic 3 Working with Text

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Text frames
Drawing text frames
Moving and resizing text frames
Word and character count
Connecting text frames
Threading
Unthreading
Methods for flowing text
Flowing text manually
Flowing text semi-automatically
Flowing text automatically

Setting text frame options
Hidden characters
Selecting text
Inserting glyphs
Using special characters
Using white space characters
Inserting break characters
Linked text files
Text import filters
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Topic 4 Formatting Text

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Fonts and Typefaces
Using fonts
Choosing a font
Setting type size
Using the Control palette to format text
Using the the Character palette
Leading
Kerning and tracking
Setting kerning and tracking values
Using Optical Kerning
Scaling type
Baseline shift

Skewing or distorting text
Capitalisation
Making characters superscript or subscript
Underline and strikethrough
Paragraph formatting
Text alignment
Setting space above or below
Indenting text
Drop caps
Hyphenation
OpenType fonts
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Topic 5 Text Wrap

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Text wrap around objects on hidden layers
Changing preferences for text wrap

Making a frame ignore text wrap
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Topic 6 Paragraph and Character Styles

Topic Objectives
Using styles
The Paragraph and Character Styles palettes
Creating styles “by example”
Importing styles
Applying paragraph and character styles

Clearing style overrides
Editing styles
Deleting paragraph and character styles
Removing styles from text
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Topic 7 Using Layers

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The Layers palette
Creating layers
Putting objects on to layers
Rearranging layers

Hiding or showing a layer
Locking layers
Deleting a layer
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Topic 8 Outputting to PDF

Topic Objectives
Producing PDF files for approval
Producing press quality PDF files
Exporting to PDF format
InDesign’s PDF presets
Creating PDF presets
General options

Compression options
Marks and bleeds options
Colour management options
Advanced options
Security options
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Topic 9 Text Controls

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The Find/Change command
Tips for Finding/Changing text
Using Metacharacters
The Find Font command
The Check Spelling command
Automatically correcting spelling
Using dynamic spelling
Hyphenation and spelling dictionaries
Creating user dictionaries
Managing user dictionaries

Adding words to a dictionary
Removing and editing words in exception lists
Exporting word lists
Importing word lists into an InDesign dictionary
Hyphenation and spelling preferences
Tips for sharing dictionaries in a workgroup
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Topic 10 Type Composition

Topic Objectives
Paragraph composition
Hyphenation and justification
Avoiding word breaks
Controlling spacing in justified text
Single word justification
Flush space
Using the Eyedropper tool with type
Paragraph Rules
Keep options

Optical Margin Alignment
The Indent to Here character
Tabs
Adjusting kerning between words
Adjusting underline options
Baseline and document grids
Setting baseline grids for text frames
Balancing ragged lines of text
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Topic 11 Working with Tables

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Features of tables
Creating a table
Adding text or graphics to a table
Navigating in a table
Converting text into a table
Changing a table into normal text
Importing Microsoft Office tables
Embedding a table inside another table
Selecting cells

Inserting rows and columns
Deleting rows and columns
Merging cells
Table headers and footers
Resizing tables
Overset cells
Applying a border to a table
Adding stroke and fill colour to cells
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Appendix A: InDesign Keyboard Shortcuts

Appendix B: Index