InDesign CS3 Introduction

The Interface
Using tools, panels and contextual menus
Changing view sizes and navigating through a document

Creating documents
Creating a new document
Bleeds and Slugs
Opening and saving documents and templates
Using guides, rules and grids
Opening and creating master pages
Understanding Document Presets and Preferences

Creating objects
Drawing shapes and lines
Selecting moving and duplicating objects
The Selection and Direct selection tools
Info panel
Shape to Shape conversion
Changing the size, proportions or orientation of an object
Anchored Objects

Working with text
How text frames work
Importing text
Text frame options
Threading text frames
Character and Paragraph formatting
Basic hyphenation and justification
Using the eyedropper tool
Creating and applying paragraph and character styles
Tables
Working with indents and tabs
Creating, editing and formatting tables
Adding images to tables


Graphics
Understanding graphic formats
Placing vector and bitmapped graphics
Fitting graphics in frames
Placing PDF files
Managing links
Wrapping text around graphics


Colour
Understanding spot and process colour
The swatches panel
using swatch libraries
Creating tints and gradients
Applying colour to fills and stokes
Using the gradient tools on fills, strokes and text
Copying attributes between objects
Moving colours between documents.
Sampling colours from imported graphics

Working with objects
Using layers
Stacking objects
Duplicating objects
Aligning and distributing objects

Pages
Moving and re-ordering Pages
Paths
Drawing with the pen tool
Adjusting points and segments
Placing text on paths
Creating paths from text outlines

Master pages
Creating masters and based on masters
Adding automatic page numbering and other
Working with master page objects

Automating text
Find/Change
Defining Styles
Headers and Footers

Libraries
Creating, indexing and using InDesign libraries

Transparency
Selecting blending modes
Adding drop shadows and feathering edges
Flattener Preview panel

Outputting documents
Setting up documents for printing
Printing options and styles
Exporting PDFs
Snippets

File Management with
Adobe Bridge
Using Adobe Bridge in conjunction with InDesign