| Course Dates | Venue | Price | ||
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| Online | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| Online | £379 + VAT save £120 | |||
| London Bridge | £399 + VAT save £100 | |||
| London Bridge | £429 + VAT save £70 | |||
| Online | £399 + VAT save £100 | |||
| London Bridge | £449 + VAT save £50 | |||
| Online | £429 + VAT save £70 | |||
| London Bridge | £479 + VAT save £20 | |||
| Online | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| Online | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| Online | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| Online | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| Online | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| Online | £499 + VAT |
Day One
Faster ways of working
• Changing settings in the Preferences
• Customising the appearance and content of InDesign's menus
• Changing InDesign's keyboard shortcuts and add new ones
• Arranging panels and the workspace
• Using built-in automation scripts
• Adding new automation scripts
Finesse your text content
• Restyling specific words and phrases across documents
• Accessing the full character set of every font including accents, symbols and icons
• Working with typographical glyphs, dashes and white spaces
• Setting up automatic complex multi-style text formatting
• Advanced formatting features such as paragraph shading, baseline alignment and column spanning
Working with lists
• Simplifying bulleted and numbered lists
• Customising bulleted and numbered lists
• Automating lists
Adding and designing tables
• Inserting tabular layouts
• Resizing rows and columns
• Importing and working with spreadsheets from Microsoft Excel
• Edit the contents of a table
• Restyle table fonts, colours and patterns
• Adding graphics to tables
• Adding, removing and re-arranging rows and columns
• Flowing tables across multiple pages with repeating headers and footers
Day Two
?Managing design assets
• Working with RGB and CMYK colours
• Building re-usable and sharable libraries
• Adding branded colours, type styles, graphics and layouts to libraries
• Capturing the visual style of anything in a layout and re-apply it anywhere with one click
Take full control of pages
• Automating complex documents with multiple parent pages
• Using different page sizes in the same document
• Changing page numbering and spread pagination anywhere in a document
• Managing layout grids that automatically align text baselines
Go further with graphics
• Enable 'clipping path' cut-out graphics or create your own
• Placing multi-layered graphics and choosing which layers to show
• Create original graphics with shape and drawing tools
• Applying advanced transparency effects and blending modes
• Reposition graphics automatically when text reflows
• Making text roll along curves, turn corners and swerve into custom shapes
Producing better PDFs
• Ensuring colour consistency between on-screen and print
• Creating custom 'preflight' checks to ensure clean and reliable output
• Configuring your own custom PDF presets for faster export
• Make PDFs that your printing press people will love
Questions and answers
This course is also available as a private course. If you wish we can tailor the content for your team. Please contact us for more details.
"Almost everything. Super accommodating and Simon was a great tutor to learn from. Very approachable and answered all of my questions and problems I had. Have learned some really great stuff to take back to work and improve on my InDesign skills."
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