Overview
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Covers a wide range of advanced topics from interface customization to advanced properties of layout and text.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- Managing more than one document window
- Positioning your panels
- Setting up Mini Bridge
- Saving a workspace
- Displaying a new window or split screen
- Rotating pages and spreads
- Setting application and document preferences
- Learning and editing keyboard shortcuts
- Customizing InDesign menus
- Parent/child master pages
- Starting a document on a left page
- Adding alternate layouts
- Saving objects in libraries
- Exporting and importing page snippets
- Filling with placeholder text
- Tracking text changes
- Choosing other languages
- Adjusting text hyphenation and justification
- Adding hanging punctuation with Optical Margin Alignment
- Controlling orphans and widows with Keep Options
- Aligning to a baseline grid
- Setting vertical justification and first baseline position
- Applying styles automatically with nested and line styles
- The basics of GREP styles
- Using Break Link to Style
- Exploring style groups
- Including footnotes
- Working with cross-references
- Indexing a document
- Exploring conditional text
- Importing InDesign files
- Advanced Links panel features
- Embedding links
- Adding live and static captions
- Turning image layers on and off
- Using advanced strokes
- Using Pathfinder and compound paths
- Using InDesign and Illustrator together
- Power scaling techniques
- Making grids
- Power spacing
- Making objects nonprinting
- Default graphics and text frame styles
- Going ever deeper with InDesign
