InDesign Course – Advanced – Blue Academy

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InDesign Course – Advanced

InDesign Course – Advanced

Course Curriculum

Lesson 1: Productivity enhancers

Customizing keyboard shortcuts
Using Smart Guides
Importing and pasting text
Using the Eyedropper on text
Applying styles efficiently
Nested and next styles
Updating styled text
Using libraries and snippets
Enabling Layout Adjustment
Proportionally placing graphics

Lesson 2: Helpful preferences

Applying leading to entire paragraphs
Enabling Smart Text Reflow
Controlling text wrap
Setting up a baseline grid
Changing units and increments
Choosing the appearance of black
Viewing & changing the baseline grid
Restoring preferences and defaults
Resetting warning boxes
Clipboard Handling

Lesson 3: Building templates

Advantages of template use
Creating a template layer
Loading swatches
Loading styles
Creating master pages
Basing masters
Override & detach master objects
Creating styles
Basing styles
Clearing style overrides

Lesson 4: Color and transparency

Adjusting gradients
Using the Eyedropper with colors
Copying swatches between documents
Previewing color separations
Connecting effects and transparency
Feathering graphic margins
Blending mode options
Solving printing issues
Transparency flattener options
Understanding stitching

Lesson 5: Working with long documents

Combining files into books
Setting the page order
Creating a table of contents
Specifying a style source
Synchronizing long documents
Creating an index
Adding topics and cross-references
Generating an index
Exporting a book file
Print Booklet

Lesson 6: Harnessing xmL

Lesson 7: Using merge data

Merging steps
Choosing a data source
Inserting a text data field
Adding image fields
Previewing records
Updating data fields
Removing data fields
Replacing data fields
Merging records
Using data fields on master pages

Lesson 8: Creating interactive documents

Add TOC bookmarks
Arrange, group and sort bookmarks
Creating a hyperlink
Creating a button
Action types
Changing button appearance
Adding a movies or sound
Choosing a poster frame
Changing movie options
Selecting an Acrobat format