Duration: 2 Days
Course Overview
Explores the intermediate- and advanced-level features available in InDesign, expanding your knowledge of the application and teaching skills for creating eye-catching layouts
Building on the topics taught in our introductory course, this course teaches techniques in the following areas to power-user level:
Preferences
More Creative Cloud
Colour
Importing from Word and Excel
Tables and table styles
Adobe Bridge
Special effects
Objects
More about parent pages
Page layout
Advanced typography
Printing and preflighting
Advanced styles
GREP
Using data merge to create multiple versions of a document
Interactive PDFs and EPUBs
How can I attend my course?
METHOD OF DELIVERY
Training is designed for the busy professional, being short and intensive and combining lecture and demonstration. Practical exercises carried out under guidance help you learn the techniques taught.
You have ample opportunity to discuss specific requirements with the trainer.
Course Content
Intermediate Level Topics:
Preferences
• Change document and application preferences
• Setting Global preferences
• Resetting preferences
More Creative Cloud
• Creative Cloud libraries
• Capture extension
Colour
• Sharing swatches between InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
• Adobe colour themes
• Working with Adobe Swatch Exchange files
• Setting default colours
Tables & Table Styles
• Converting tabulated text to a table
• Importing Word tables and Excel data
• Breaking tables across frames
• Cell styles
• Table styles
Adobe Bridge
• Bridge workspaces
• Image metadata
• Live image captions
• Colour Management via Bridge
Special Effects
• Transparency
• Effects
• Customised corners
Objects
• Creating and applying object styles
• Using Step and repeat
• Transforming objects and repeating transformations
• Creating paths with the pen tool
• Modifying Paths with the Pen Tool
• Creating custom shapes with the pathfinder panel
• Converting shapes
More about Parent Pages
• Parent and child parents
• Overriding parent page items
• Shuffle options
• Defining and inserting variables
Page Layout
• Changing page size
• Setting type on a baseline grid
• Liquid Layout and page rules
• Designing alternate page layouts
• Flex Layouts
• Exporting to Adobe Express
• Advanced align options
• The Gap tool
• Adobe Stock design templates
• Creating and using templates
Advanced Level Topics:
Advanced Typography
• Typographical preferences
• Advanced Character formatting options
• Advanced Paragraph formatting options
• Creating type outlines
• Typing on a path
• Setting tabs and leaders
Printing and Preflighting
• Creating a custom pre-flight setting
• Overprinting
• Separations preview
Advanced Styles
• Styling overview
• Importing styles
• Custom numbered paragraph styles
• Keeping paragraphs and lines together
• Creating nested styles
• Creating span and split paragraph styles
• Using ‘Based On’, ‘Next Style’ and Quick Apply
• Working with style packs
GREP
• What is GREP?
• Finding and replacing with GREP
• Using a Pre-built GREP Search
• Including GREP in a paragraph style
Using Data Merge to Create Multiple Versions of a Document
• Introduction to data merge
• Setting up a merge source
• Adding merge fields
• Output
Interactive PDFs and EPUBs
• Adding hyperlinks
• Adding bookmarks
• Creating a QR code
• Placing movies and sound
• Setting up page transitions
• Including online content from YouTube
• Publishing online
• Preparing a document to be an EPUB
• Exporting to EPUB
PREREQUISITES
You should have a good working knowledge of InDesign.
COURSE MATERIALS AND CERTIFICATE
Delegates receive an e-certificate (PDF) confirming successful completion of Adobe-accredited Advanced InDesign training.
AFTER COURSE SUPPORT
Following InDesign training, you’re entitled to 30 days’ email support from your trainer.