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This course covers all of the more commonly used features of Adobe InDesign so that attendees can navigate the software and use InDesign's tools to create well-designed professional documents.

Whether you are using Adobe InDesign to create brochures, flyers, bid documents or any kind of printed or electronic document, this course will give you the skills you need.

You will learn how to set out documents, work with colour and incorporate text and images into documents. The course will cover the use of styles and master pages that allow you to format content 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.

This course is suitable for anyone using InDesign CS5, CS6 or CC. If attending in a QA centre then the course will be delivered using InDesign CS6.

The course can be tailored to meet your specific requirements. Please contact your QA Account Manager to discuss.

Delegates do not need any experience of InDesign or other desktop publishing applications, as anything that is required will be covered by the course.

However, all delegates should have basic computer skills and know how to launch applications, browse to locate files and have good keyboard and mouse skills, and a reasonable working knowledge of Microsoft Word would be beneficial.

Dual monitor setup is required for when attending this course via the QA Attend from Anywhere delivery method.

Delegates will learn how to

Create and set out a document in InDesign
Work with InDesign’s different frame types
Setup and apply master pages
Work with colour and colour swatches
Incorporate text, tables and graphics in documents
Use styles to format text
Work with compound objects in InDesign
Prepare for and output documents using InDesign’s printing and preflight options

Module 1: Introducing Adobe InDesign

The InDesign interface
Zooming
Navigating

Module 2: Creating documents

Creating a new document
Guides and views
Working with frames
Taking frames further

Module 3: Managing document content

Grouping, aligning, and distributing
Stacking, converting, and transforming
Layers

Module 4: Working with document formats

Managing pages
Liquid Layouts
Creating alternate layouts
Working with island spreads

Module 5: Using master pages

Working with master pages
Working with page numbering

Module 6: Working with colour

An introduction to colour
The Colour panel
Swatches
Tints and gradients

Module 7: Working with type

The Type Tool
Importing text
Linking and overset text
Formatting text
Further typographic controls
Type on a Path Tool
Other useful text commands

Module 8: Working with tables

Creating tables
Modifying tables

Module 9: Incorporating graphics

Importing images
Display performance
Managing other Adobe files
Scaling and moving
Text wrapping

Module 10: Working with styles

An introduction to styles
The styles panels
Creating a style
Applying styles
Editing and managing styles
Style overrides
Importing styles

Module 11: Preparing for output

Resolving errors
Printing a document
Exporting files for print
Packaging a document
Exporting in another format

Appendices (covered if relevant and if time permits)

Appendix 1: Working with paths
Appendix 2: Compound objects
Appendix 3: Creative Cloud
Appendix 4: Adobe Bridge

Upcoming Trainings

Join our public courses in our New Zealand facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule.

Classroom / Virtual Classroom

17 June 2024