Introducing The Workspace

• Looking at the InDesign CC workspace
• Understanding the Application bar and Control panels
• Working with panels
• Customizing the workspace
• Navigating through a document
• Changing the magnification of a document
• Selecting pages and spreads
  

Illustrations

• Drawing lines & shapes
• Drawing multiple objects as a grid
• Using smart guides to align objects
  
• Creating different corner appearances
• Transforming shapes
• Distributing objects using Live distribute

Page Layout

• Introduction to Pica & Point units
  
• Document window overview
• Creating a new document with the Preview option
• Using columns, margins, bleed, slug and guides
• Selecting pages & spreads from the pages panel
• Creating & working with master pages
• Creating guides for aligning objects
• Applying master pages to document pages
• Overriding master page items on document pages
• Creating paginations
• Adding, deleting and moving document pages

Transparency And Effects

• Applying transparency settings
• Understanding blending modes
• Creating effects
• Editing and removing effects
  

Graphics Handling

• Working with layers
• Creating & modifying graphic frames
• Placing graphics with individual frames & as grids of frames
• Resizing & moving images within frames
• Wrapping text around a graphic
• Aligning objects with the Align panel
• Selecting & modifying grouped objects
  

Table Layout

• Creating tables
• Selecting elements of a table
• Importing data from Excel files
• Managing rows, columns & tables
• Merging & resizing cells
• Formatting a table
• Working with header & footer rows
• Creating & using table & cell styles

Text Handling

• Entering and importing text
• Text selection
• Changing font families & styles
• Learning about font search
• Changing paragraph alignment
• Adjusting paragraph vertical spacing
• Applying hanging punctuation
• Creating a drop cap
• Adding end of article marker using glyphs
• Adjusting letter and word spacing
• Accessing typographic controls in InDesign
• Performing word or character count
• Creating bullet & number lists
• Customising bullet & number lists
• Finding and changing a missing font
• Using the enhanced Search to change and format text
• Checking spelling
• Activating the Dynamic Spelling feature
• Creating, applying & changing paragraph & character styles

Managing Text Frames

• Viewing non-printing characters
• Working with text frames
• Creating placeholder text
• Reflowing text using threaded text frames
• Viewing text thread
• Resizing text frames
• Creating multiple columns with text frames
• Eliminating typography orphans & widows
• Adjusting text position and vertical alignment within text frames

Colors

• Understanding process & spot colors
  
• Creating & applying colors with the Color & Swatches panels
• Working with linear & radial gradients
  
• Applying colors to text & objects

Final output

• Preventing missing fonts with document installed fonts
• Using the improved Packaging command to prepare files for commercial printing
• Creating an Adobe PDF file with different file sizes and quality