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InDesign CS5: Basic, First Look Edition
Course Number: 1-4260-2201-8
Category: Business & Office Applications
Duration: 1.00 day
Description
This ILT series course will teach students fundamental concepts, terminology, and the basic features of Adobe InDesign CS5. Students will learn how to create documents, place text and graphics, and create custom color swatches. Students will also learn how to work with master pages and multi-page documents. In addition, students will learn how to format text, apply styles, work with threaded text frames, position and group objects, and work with layers. Finally, students will print documents, create print presets, create a PDF file, and package documents for commercial printing.
Outline

Unit 1: Getting started

 

  • Topic A: The Adobe InDesign environment
  • Topic B: Preferences and defaults
  • Topic C: InDesign Help

 

Unit 2: Basic documents

 

  • Topic A: New documents
  • Topic B: Text frames
  • Topic C: Graphics frames
  • Topic D: Custom colors

 

Unit 3: Guides and master pages

 

  • Topic A: Object positioning
  • Topic B: Master pages

 

Unit 4: Typesetting

 

  • Topic A: Text frame threading
  • Topic B: Paragraph formatting
  • Topic C: Styles

 

Unit 5: Modifying items

 

  • Topic A: Text frame options
  • Topic B: Graphics
  • Topic C: Grouped items
  • Topic D: Layers

 

Unit 6: Finalizing documents

 

  • Topic A: Printing and exporting documents
  • Topic B: Preparing for commercial printing