InDesign for Editors

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Free Online Course: InDesign for Editors provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. InDesign for Editors is taught by Nigel French.

Overview
  • Writers and editors: this InDesign course is for you. Learn how to efficiently edit and format text, navigate a document, and overcome problems when working with text in InDesign.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome
    • Using the exercise files
    1. The InDesign Environment
    • Opening and saving InDesign documents
    • The InDesign interface
    • Working with panels and creating an editorial workspace
    • Recovering from mistakes
    • Guides and nonprinting visual aids
    • Changing view size and navigating a document
    2. Editing Text
    • Text selection methods
    • Basic text editing
    • Common problems when editing text
    • Changing case
    • Accessing special characters
    • Editing tables
    • Bulleted and numbered lists
    • Using Find/Change
    3. Editorial Panels and Features
    • The Story Editor
    • Spell-checking and Dynamic Spelling
    • The Info panel
    • The Notes panel
    • The Track Changes panel
    4. How InDesign Documents Are Constructed
    • Text frames
    • Master pages
    • Layers
    • Paragraph and character styles
    • The Paragraph Composer
    5. Controlling Text Breaks
    • Hyphenation
    • Page and column breaks
    • Breaking lines for sense
    • Fixing widows and orphans
    Conclusion
    • Goodbye and next steps