InDesign Training Course
in Chicago

Adobe InDesign Course outline

1. Getting Started

• Topic A: The Adobe InDesign environment
• Topic B: Preferences and defaults
• Topic C: InDesign Help

 

2. Basic Documents

• Topic A: New documents
• Topic B: Text frames
• Topic C: Graphics frames
• Topic D: Custom colors

 

3. Guides and Master Pages

• Topic A: Object positioning
• Topic B: Master pages

 

4. Typesetting

• Topic A: Text frame threading
• Topic B: Paragraph formatting
• Topic C: Styles

 

5. Modifying Items

• Topic A: Text frame options
• Topic B: Graphics
• Topic C: Grouped items
• Topic D: Layers

 

6. Finalizing Documents

• Topic A: Printing and exporting documents
• Topic B: Preparing for commercial printing

 

Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical course. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular course.

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1. Efficient layout

• Topic A: Document setup
• Topic B: Tint and gradient swatches
• Topic C: Object libraries and snippets
• Topic D: Item spacing

 

2. Vector paths

• Topic A: Creating vector paths
• Topic B: Vector paths and pictures
• Topic C: Vector paths and type

 

3. Typography

• Topic A: Manual type resizing
• Topic B: Automated styles
• Topic C: Graphics in typography
• Topic D: Precise leading control
• Topic E: Composition, hyphenation, and justification
• Topic F: Horizontal spacing

 

4. Graphics

• Topic A: Layer comps
• Topic B: Transparency
• Topic C: Object styles
• Topic D: Transforming objects

 

5. Tables

• Topic A: Creating tables
• Topic B: Changing table structure
• Topic C: Formatting tables

 

6. Text Editing

• Topic A: The story editor
• Topic B: The CS Review panel
• Topic C: Special characters
• Topic D: Column, frame, and page breaks

 

7. Long Documents

• Topic A: Sections
• Topic B: Tables of contents
• Topic C: Indexes and cross-references
• Topic D: Books
• Topic E: Footnotes

 

Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical course. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular course.

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