Adobe InDesign Introduction

Each participant will leave with a recognised certificate

• In this course you will learn how to use paragraph and character styles that allow you to format pages of text uniformly, layout features that help you to build alternate size configurations of your document, and various panels that enable you to easily customise both text and graphics.

Module 1 - Introduction

• The InDesign interface

• Zooming and navigating

• Working with guides

• Creating frames

• Changing InDesign's Preferences

Module 2 - Working with Text Frames

• Entering and importing text

• Linking text frames

• Autoflow

• Character and paragraph formatting

• InDesign typography controls

• Notes

• Creating simple tables

• Proofing and inserting special characters

Module 3 - Working with Character and Paragraph Styles

• Creating new styles

• Applying styles

• Removing styles and overrides

• Editing and deleting styles

Module 4 - Working with graphics

• Importing pictures

• Repositioning and scaling graphics and frames

• Text wrapping options

Module 5 - Working with multiple frames

• Grouping, aligning and distributing objects

• Stacking objects

• Converting and transforming shapes

• The Layers panel

• Using objects in layers

Module 6 - Working with colour

• The Color panel

• Working with colour swatches

• Creating tints and gradients

• Applying colours

Module 7 - Preparing a document for output

• Using Preflight

• Printing an InDesign document

• Exporting files for printing

• Packaging a document