Overview
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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
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- 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
- 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
- The Story Editor
- Spell-checking and Dynamic Spelling
- The Info panel
- The Notes panel
- The Track Changes panel
- Text frames
- Master pages
- Layers
- Paragraph and character styles
- The Paragraph Composer
- Hyphenation
- Page and column breaks
- Breaking lines for sense
- Fixing widows and orphans
- Goodbye and next steps
