Master the editing and text handling features of Adobe InDesign on this accelerated one day InDesign training course.
Our friendly, experienced Adobe trainers will quickly get you using InDesign confidently and share lots of tricks that they’ve learned over the years.
By the time you finish, you’ll be comfortable using a wide range of InDesign’s features.
✔ A complete beginners’ course that covers all of the basics for editors.
✔ Plenty of one-to-one attention and time to ask questions.
✔ Friendly, expert trainers, small groups and a comfortable place to learn.
✔ All the materials and extras that you’ll ever need.
✔ Ongoing support and help with issues you have after the course.
The Trainer
Our usual trainer for this course is Paul. He has been training people to use layout and graphic design packages for over 30 years.
He started his career working as a graphic designer. Then in 1989 he was asked to help train people use Aldus Pagemaker and CorelDraw and the rest is history.
He has focused on training Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Lightroom and Illustrator for the last 15 years.
What Will I Learn?
This course is focused on the text handling features of InDesign. It does not cover the page layout and design features of InDesign.
It will get you comfortable and working independently in InDesign as quickly as possible.
You’ll learn about:
- Saving time with features like Master Pages, paragraph styles and object styles.
- Quickly and simply placing text on a page and formatting it.
- Presenting your work professionally using borders, tabs kerning and tracking.
- Perfectly preparing your document for printing by adjusting overprint and trap settings.
Am I Ready For This Course?
This is a beginners’ course and so you do not need prior experience with InDesign to attend.
So long as you have a basic understanding of computers (including the ability to work with multiple windows and navigate the desktop) and an understanding of computer file storage (i.e. drives, files and folders) you’ll be absolutely fine.
The Training Day
Our courses run from 9.30 am to roughly 4.30 pm with plenty of refreshments throughout the day and a break for lunch.
We offer a relaxed, supportive learning environment and comfortable, fully air-conditioned facilities. We also have some of the nicest instructors on the planet.
Also, you’ll receive:
✔ A full-colour manual which covers everything in the course.
✔ Your course exercises so that you can practice at home.
✔ A Certificate of Attendance.
Course Details
• Creating a new document
• Using the Control panel
• Navigating around InDesign
• Customising your Workspace
• Importing text from Word
• Dealing with missing fonts
• Text flow methods
• Selecting and editing text
• Applying Paragraph styles
• Applying Character styles
• Editing in the Story Editor
• Word and character counts
• Using the Track Changes feature
• The Auto-Fit text command
• Splitting text into columns
• Spanning headlines across columns
• Using the Info panel
• Viewing and adding Notes
• Copy fitting with Notes
• The purpose of Layers
• Creating and arranging Layers
• Assigning content to Layers
• Understanding Master Pages
• Adding page numbers
• Applying Master Pages
• Hyphenation options
• Balancing ragged lines
• The Adobe Paragraph Composer
• Break characters
• Kerning and Tracking
• Composition preferences
• Viewing the Grid
• Automatically creating text Grids
• Setting up the Grid
• Aligning text to the Grid
• Text insets
• Ignoring a text wrap
• Printing your work
• Exporting as a pdf file
Online Training Requirements
To attend this InDesign course online, you will need:
✔ InDesign on your Windows PC with a camera, speakers & microphone
✔ A stable internet connection capable of running Zoom
✔ To be a confident computer user and able to use Zoom
If you have access to a second screen, we would encourage you to use it as it improves the experience.