Course Overview
TOPIn this entry-level InDesign class, you'll learn to create professional-looking flyers, brochures, and publications. Discover how to work effectively with text and type by creating reusable styles, integrating and formatting graphics, and using time-saving techniques that keep designs consistent using parent pages. You'll also find how to share completed InDesign documents in digital and print formats. Learn from InDesign instructors who are Adobe Certified Experts, who have written Adobe's official training books for InDesign and are the authors of the Adobe InDesign Digital Classroom book.
Scheduled Classes
TOP| 06/23/25 - AGI - Virtual Instructor-Led - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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| 07/14/25 - AGI - Virtual Instructor-Led - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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| 08/11/25 - AGI - Virtual Instructor-Led - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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| 09/08/25 - AGI - Virtual Instructor-Led - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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| 10/13/25 - AGI - Virtual Instructor-Led - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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| 11/10/25 - AGI - Virtual Instructor-Led - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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| 12/08/25 - AGI - Virtual Instructor-Led - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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What You'll Learn
TOP- Effectively use InDesign to create flyers, brochures, and other documents
- Easily maintain a consistent appearance across a document using parent pages
- Import images into your layout and control their size, position, format, and style
- Add text and apply formatting quickly and consistently using character and paragraph styles
- Use, resize, and style images and re-use image attributes with object styles
- Use AI features like Text to image, Text to fill, and Generative expand
- Create, convert, and import tables for displaying data
- Add colors and use them to enhance your layout
Outline
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Viewing outline for:
InDesign essential skills
- Using the InDesign workspace
- Changing the viewing modes
- Working with panels
- Changing and saving your workspace
- Working with the Properties panel
- Navigating through a document
Building InDesign documents with master pages
- Planning your document
- Creating a custom-sized document
- Formatting master pages
- Using text variables
- Basing master pages on other masters
- Overriding master page items
- Adding layout pages
- Placing formatted text
- Adding images and text to master pages
- Applying masters to pages
Working with text and type in InDesign
- Creating a text frame
- Inputting text
- Changing character, and paragraph attributes
- Finding and changing text
- Checking and correcting spelling
- Using the Glyphs panel
- Flowing text from one textbox to another
- Threading text between frames
Working with InDesign's styles
- Style types
- Defining paragraph styles
- Applying paragraph styles
- Defining character styles
- Applying character styles
- Updating styles
- Loading styles from another document
- Organizing styles into groups
- Creating object styles
- Applying object styles
Working with graphics in InDesign
- How InDesign handles graphics
- Locating missing images
- The Links panel and Link badge
- Creating a graphic frame
- Adding graphics
- Repositioning graphics
- Fitting graphics to frames
- Placing multiple graphics
- Wrapping text around graphics
- Importing layered Photoshop files
- Introduction to AI. Text to Image, Text to fill, and Generative expand
Creating and using InDesign tables
- Creating a table
- Copying and pasting table information
- Adding text to tables
- Converting tables and text
- Importing a table
- Editing table options
- Using cells
- Merging cells
- Defining columns and rows
- Using graphics in cells
Applying colors to your InDesign documents
- Applying color to text
- Applying color to frames
- Creating and saving a new swatch
- Applying Live Corner Effects
- Applying strokes to text
- Creating a tint reduction
- Working with gradients
- Using the Eyedropper
- Updating and editing colors
- Using and saving spot colors
Preflighting, Printing and PDF creation from InDesign
- Package inventory
- Actual vs. effective resolution
- Preflight checks
- Packaging your document
- Package options
- Creating a PDF
- Adobe PDF Presets
- PDF Export Options
- Separation preview
- Printing a proof
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
TOPYou must have the Adobe InDesign software to attend this class. Virtual labs are not provided. You can purchase the software or obtain a trial version from the Adobe website.
Who Should Attend
TOPThis is the perfect InDesign course for beginners or for those using InDesign who have never had formal training.
