Course Overview
TOPThis two-day Adobe InDesign course is designed for individuals who already know the fundamentals of InDesign and want to learn more advanced functions to improve speed and productivity. This advanced InDesign training class will teach you advanced styles, text formatting, graphics controls, and output options. This class helps you create and edit complex documents using consistent styling methods to automate repetitive work. If you are looking for an InDesign class for books, magazines, or catalogs or working more efficiently with complex documents, this course is for you.
Scheduled Classes
TOP| 06/11/25 - AGI - Virtual Instructor-Led - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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What You'll Learn
TOP- Use advanced capabilities for editing, aligning, and arranging text and tables
- Build complex styles and methods to automate text formatting
- Import, silhouette, and anchor images to text so images and text remain together
- Apply advanced formatting and styles to tables
- Enhance long documents with Table of Contents and Index
- Apply transparency, shadows, and other effects to add impact to design
Outline
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Viewing outline for:
Controlling Text and type with InDesign
- Editing text using the Story Editor
- Using track changes
- Drag-and-drop text editing
- Adjusting text inset
- Vertically aligning text
- Viewing and changing the baseline grid
- Adding story jumps to auto-link continued text
- Placing text on a path
- Efficiently importing text to map styles and formatting
- Finding and fixing missing fonts
Using Advanced InDesign Styles for consistent formatting and efficiency
- Using nested styles
- Redefining styles
- Breaking links to styles
- Additional style options
- Creating a new style group
- Using Quick Apply
- Selecting all unused styles
- Editing export tags
- Sorting styles
- GREP styles
Advanced InDesign graphics features
- Auto fitting
- Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics
- Placing multiple graphics using Mini Bridge
- Applying object styles to images
- Using clipping paths and alpha channels
- Removing an image background
- Using anchored objects
- Advanced importing
- Importing layered Photoshop files
- Importing InDesign layouts as graphics
Advanced tables in InDesign
- Formatting cells and text
- Text alignment and inset within a cell
- Formatting text in tables by column
- Working with tables in Story Editor
- Defining a header cell
- Setting column and row dimensions
- Setting a fixed row height
- Setting column width
- Creating and applying cell styles
- Creating and applying table styles
Using InDesign book and long document functionality
- Creating a book from multiple files
- Defining pagination and document order
- Synchronizing book attributes
- Creating captions
- Creating a table of contents
- Building an index
- Adding topics
- Adding cross-references
- Adding text variables
- Exporting from the Book panel
Creating digital documents using InDesign
- Interactive design considerations
- Adding a hyperlink
- Adding buttons
- Creating page transitions
- Creating animations
- Using liquid layout
- Working with linked content
- Exporting to an interactive PDF
- Adding PDF form fields
Using InDesign's effects
- Applying opacity to objects
- Applying effects to strokes or fills
- Adjusting effects
- Object styles with effects
- Using find/change to apply object styles
- Converting text to a path
- Applying blending modes to objects
- Working with imported transparent files
- Applying an alpha channel selection
- Applying a path selection
Essential InDesign skills for improved productivity
- Using the InDesign pages panel
- Adjusting the workspace
- Using paragraph and character styles
- Applying object styles
- Using advanced find/change functionality
- Formatting graphics and setting default import options
- Controlling text wrap
- Using layers
The course topics serve as an outline for the course. Instructors may adjust content based on the specific needs of each class, such as to answer your InDesign questions
Prerequisites
TOPStudents must have their own copy of InDesign to participate in activities. Students should have taken InDesign Introduction or have equivalent experience.
Who Should Attend
TOPThis intermediate Adobe InDesign training course is designed for individuals who already know the fundamentals of InDesign and want to learn more advanced functions to improve speed, productivity, and accuracy. Knowledge of the skills covered in the introductory InDesign training course are highly recommended.
