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Adobe InDesign Advanced

Length 2 days
Version CC 2024

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Why study this course

The powerful and abundant features of Adobe InDesign® are often underutilised or even overlooked. Learning a feature such as Quick Apply for super fast formatting will save users at least 30 minutes a day, a potential annual time saving of 90+ hours! Similarly, understanding the power of GREP could help turn days of mundane and frustrating editing work into a ten-minute operation!

Especially with the latest InDesign versions, you can efficiently design and edit documents for print or screen faster than ever. Use the new Adaptive Design tools to easily repurpose layouts and other recent InDesign productivity improvements such as directly importing PDF comments, Creative Cloud™ Libraries, Content Collector tools, Adobe Fonts, the Colour Theme tool, and more. There is an emphasis on working with long documents to include time-saving techniques, along with advanced styling and page layout options.

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Nexacu is part of the Lumify Group, offering you an extensive public schedule of Adobe end user training in Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. You can now access the schedule of courses and book, by clicking on the button below.

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What you can expect with Nexacu Adobe Training

Small classes (average 4 to 6)
Adobe Authorised Training Centre (AATC) with industry experienced, certified instructors
Course eBook and sample files
Class exercises relevant to industry
AATC Adobe endorsed certificate upon course completion
After-course support
Free course resit (6 months) *

* Free resit applies to all public courses; does not include custom or private training.

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What you’ll learn

After completing this course, students will have the knowledge to:

Improve productivity through best practices, tips, and tricks with emphasis on:
- Automating repetitive actions
- Streamlining the ‘beginning to end’ process
- Advanced options for customising InDesign
- Must-know shortcuts
Use troubleshooting techniques
Utilise new features

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Nexacu, part of the Lumify Group, is an Adobe Authorised Training Centre (AATC).

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Who is the course for?

This course is intended for proficient users of Adobe InDesign who want to learn time-saving techniques and use InDesign's advanced features, new adaptive design tools, and other new productivity improvements.

Course subjects

Defaults and Preferences

Application and Document Defaults
How to Fix Glitches and Crashes
Customising Preferences
Restoring Defaults and Preferences for Corrupt Files

Working with Long Documents

InDesign Book Files (.indb)
Creating a Book File and Adding Documents
The Style Source and Synchronising Documents
Synchronising Parent Pages
Section Markers for Numbering and Sections
Text Variables and Presets
Creating a Running Head using Variables
Parent and Child Parent Pages
Keep Options for Headings and Related Paragraphs
Tables of Contents
Setting up the TOC Style
Creating Tab Leaders for TOC Entries
Packaging, Preflighting, and Exporting Books

Libraries and Snippets

Libraries for Graphics, Text and Pages
Snippets for Reuse, Sharing, and Positioning
Libraries Versus Snippets
Creative Cloud™ Libraries (CC Libraries)

Advanced Text Options

Paragraph Rules: Above and Below
Spanning and Splitting Columns
Paragraph Borders and Shading
Conditional Text
Indent to Here Character
Story Jump Lines
Adobe Fonts (formerly Typekit)
Avoiding Word Breaks
Word Spacing in Justified Text
Footnotes
Autosize Text Frames
Balance Columns
The Baseline Grid
Using Dynamic Spelling
The Check Spelling Command

Data Merge

The Database File and InDesign File
Steps for Merging Data
Adding Image Fields in The Data Source File
Multiple Records and Images

Advanced Style Options

Loading Styles
Grouping Styles
Clearing Overrides in Styled Text
Style Override Highlighter
Next Style
Applying the Next Style to Existing Text
The Power of Nested Styles
Applying Keyboard Shortcuts to Styles
Quick Apply

Bullets and Numbering

Formatting Bulleted and Numbered Lists
Changing and Formatting Bullet Characters
Creating Multi-level Lists
Restarting or Continuing Numbering for a List
Defined Lists

Find/Change and GREP

Find and Change: Text, GREP, Glyph and Objects
Finding and Changing Words
Searching for and Changing Text Formatting
Replacing Multiple Spaces, Tabs and Returns
GREP: Advanced Pattern-based Search Techniques
Construct GREP Expressions to Find Alphanumberic Strings and Patterns

Preflight Profiles and Output Previews

Viewing and Resolving Preflight Errors
Defining Preflight Profiles
Links Panel View Options
Previewing Colour Separation Plates
Previewing Ink Coverage
The Ink Manager

Advanced Page Layout Options

Split Window for Comparisons
Using Power Zoom
Rotate the Spread View
Adding Colour Labels to Pages
Calculations in Panels and Dialogue Boxes
Step and Repeat
Calculations and Step and Repeat
Gridify: Placing Multiple Images in a Grid
Live Distribute
Frame Fitting Options
Auto-Fit Frame Contents
The Gap Tool
The Color Theme Tool
Controlling Layer Visibility of Images
Object Layer Options
Multiple Page Sizes and the Page Tool
Creating Multiple-page Spreads
Importing Comments from PDF Files
PDF Comments Panel Overview
The Adjust Layout Command
Creating Captions from Image Metadata
Static and Live Captions
Text Wrap Options
Ignoring Text Wrap
Text Wrap Preferences
Clipping paths and Deep Etching Images
Edit Original Images from Links Panel
Importing Word Formatting and Styles
Autoflow Options

Object Styles and Anchored Objects

The Object Styles Panel
Creating Object Styles
Using Object Style Categories
Applying Object Styles
Clearing Overrides on Object Styles
Editing an Object Style
Breaking the Link to an Object Style
Importing Object Styles
Anchored Objects
Creating Anchored Objects Method 1
Creating Anchored Objects Method 2 (preferred)
Inline and Above Line Options
Custom Anchored Object Options
Viewing Anchored Object Markers
Moving or Resizing an Anchored Object Manually
Releasing an Anchored Object
Anchored Objects and Object Styles

Linked Content, Alternate and Liquid Layouts

Linked Content
Link Options
Updating Linked Content
Alternate Layouts
Liquid Layouts
Liquid Page Rules

Vector Shapes

The Stroke Panel
Modifying a Stroke
Dashed Lines
Start and End Shapes
Corner Options
The Pathfinder Panel
Converting Text to Vector Graphics
Type On a Path
Creating QR Codes

Bonus Material: Tables and Table Styles

Create Hyperlinks and URL Hyperlinks
Create Page Navigation Buttons
Import Video Files
Export an Interactive PDF
Testing in Acrobat

Bonus Material: Introduction to Interactive PDFs

Create Hyperlinks and URL Hyperlinks
Create Page Navigation Buttons
Import Video Files
Export an Interactive PDF
Testing in Acrobat

Prerequisites

Students should have previously completed Adobe InDesign Essentials or be confident with InDesign’s print publishing procedures, such as using master pages, creating and editing paragraph and character styles, and working with images.

Terms & Conditions

The supply of this course by Lumify Work is governed by the booking terms and conditions. Please read the terms and conditions carefully before enrolling in this course, as enrolment in the course is conditional on acceptance of these terms and conditions.