"Adobe InDesign training is a comprehensive 3 day course that covers InDesign essentials while providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive while using the tool.
This course includes in-depth training on core, intermediate and advanced InDesign topics to provide a solid foundation for any type of post-class InDesign work that a student will engage in.

This 3 day course covers introductory and advanced topics.

Chapter 1: Introducing the Workspace 

• Looking at the workspace
• Working with panels
• Customizing the workspace
• Navigating through a document
• Using context menus

Getting to Know InDesign

• Viewing guides
• Preflighting as you work
• Adding text
• Working with styles
• Working with graphics
• Working with objects
• Working with object styles
• Viewing the document in Presentation mode

Setting Up a Document and Working with Pages

• Creating and saving custom document settings
• Creating a new document
• Switching between open InDesign documents
• Working with master pages
• Applying master pages to document pages
• Adding new document pages
• Rearranging and deleting document pages
• Changing the size of pages
• Adding sections to change page numbering
• Overriding master page items on document pages and placing text and graphics
• Viewing the completed spread

Working with Objects

• Working with layers
• Creating and modifying text frames
• Creating and modifying graphics frames
• Adding metadata captions to graphics frames
• Placing and linking graphics frames
• Changing the shape of a frame
• Wrapping text around a graphic
• Modifying the shape of frames
• Transforming and aligning objects
• Selecting and modifying grouped objects
• Creating a QR Code
• Finishing up

Flowing Text 

• Flowing text into an existing frame
• Flowing text manually
• Creating text frames while flowing text
• Flowing text automatically
• Creating threaded frames automatically
• Resizing text frames automatically
• Adding a jump line page number

Editing Text 

• Finding and changing a missing font
• Entering and importing text
• Finding and changing text and formatting
• Checking spelling
• Editing text by dragging and dropping
• Using the Story Editor
• Tracking changes

Working with Typography

• Adjusting vertical spacing
• Changing fonts and type style
• Fine-tuning columns
• Changing paragraph alignment
• Creating a drop cap
• Adjusting letter and word spacing
• Adjusting line breaks
• Setting tabs
• Adding a rule above a paragraph

Working with Color

• Managing color
• Synchronizing color settings in Adobe Bridge
• Specifying color settings in InDesign
• Displaying images at full resolution
• Proofing colors onscreen
• Defining printing requirements
• Creating and applying colors
• Working with gradients
• Creating a tint
• Creating a spot color
• Applying colors to text and objects
• Using advanced gradient techniques

Working with Styles

• Creating and applying paragraph styles
• Creating and applying character styles
• Nesting character styles inside paragraph styles
• Creating and applying object styles
• Creating and applying table and cell styles
• Globally updating styles
• Loading styles from another document

Importing and Modifying Graphics 

• Adding graphics from other programs
• Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
• Managing links to imported files
• Updating revised graphics
• Adjusting display quality
• Working with clipping paths
• Working with alpha channels
• Importing native Adobe graphics files
• Using a library to manage objects
• Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics

Creating Tables

• Converting text to a table
• Formatting a table
• Creating a header row
• Adding graphics to table cells
• Creating and applying table and cell styles

Working With Transparency

• Importing and colorizing a grayscale image
• Applying transparency settings
• Adding transparency effects to imported vector and bitmap graphics
• Importing and adjusting Illustrator files that use transparency
• Applying transparency settings to text
• Working with effects

Printing and Exporting

• Preflighting files
• Packaging files
• Creating an Adobe PDF proof
• Previewing separations
• Previewing how transparency effects will be flattened
• Previewing the page
• Printing a laser or inkjet proof
• Using the Ink Manager

Creating Adobe PDF Files with Form Fields

• Adding form fields
• Exporting an interactive Adobe PDF file

Creating and Exporting an ebook

• Completing the booklet
• Choosing the content of an ebook
• Adding metadata
• Exporting an EPUB file

Working with Long Documents

• Starting a book
• Creating a running footer
• Adding a footnote
• Adding a cross-reference
• Synchronizing a book
• Generating a table of contents
• Indexing a book