Adobe InDesign Training

Our Adobe InDesign coures are available at two levels: introductory and advanced. The courses is available for several versions of Indesign including InDesign CS, InDesign CS2 and InDesign CS3 to suit your needs. Below is just an example of the CS3 course for InDesign.

Format:

Instructor-Led Course with course manual and CDInDesign Adobe

Course length:

1 day

Availablity:

Onsite at your office or at the Chadwick Associates office near Stamford, Lincs

InDesign CS3 Basic Course Content:

Days of training: 1

Requires: Windows XP: Basic or Windows Vista: Basic

Getting started
The Adobe InDesign environment
InDesign Help

Basic documents
New documents in InDesign
Item position
Custom colors

Structuring multi-page documents
Multi-page documents
Master pages in InDesign

Typesetting
Text frame threading in InDesign
Paragraph formatting
Styles in InDesign

Modifying items in Adobe InDesign
Text frames
Layers
Graphics
Grouped items

Finalizing documents & setting defaults
Commercial printing preparation
Outputting documents
Adobe Bridge
Preferences and defaults

Advanced Level InDesign CS3 Course Content:

Days of training: 1

Requires: InDesign CS3: Basic, ACE Edition or equivalent experience

Efficient layout In InDesign
Document setup
Item spacing
Tint and gradient swatches
Object libraries and snippets

InDesign Vector paths
Vector path creation
Vector paths and type
Vector paths and pictures

Typography
Manual type resizing
Quick Apply
Typography shortcuts
Nested styles
Graphics in typography
Precise leading control
Horizontal spacing
Composition, hyphenation, and justification

Graphics in InDesign
Layer comps
Object styles
Transparency
Transforming objects

Tables
Creating tables
Changing table structure
Formatting tables

Text editing with InDesign
Story Editor
Special characters
Column, frame, and page breaks
Anchored objects

Longer documents
Sectioning
Books
Footnotes
Tables of contents
Indexing

Find out more about Adobe InDesign introductory and advanced courses