InDesign Help

InDesign Online Help Guide 


Workspace

• Workspace basics
• Customize menus and keyboard shortcuts
• Toolbox
• Viewing the workspace
• Working with ConnectNow
• Setting preferences
• Recovery and undo

Adobe Program Workspace

InDesign Tools Panel

Layout

• Creating documents
• Rulers and measurement units
• Grids
• Ruler guides
• Pages and spreads
• Master pages
• Layers
• Laying out frames and pages
• Numbering pages, chapters, and sections
• Text variables

Working with Documents

• Working with files and templates
• Saving documents
• Converting QuarkXPress and PageMaker documents
• Exporting

Text

• Creating text and text frames
• Adding text to frames
• Threading text
• Editing text
• Find/Change
• Glyphs and special characters
• Spell-checking and language dictionaries
• Footnotes
• Tracking and reviewing changes
• Adding editorial notes in InDesign

 Styles

• Paragraph and character styles
• Drop caps and nested styles
• Object styles
• Working with styles

Combining Text and Objects

• Anchored objects
• Wrapping text around objects
• Creating type on a path
• Captions

Typography

• Formatting text
• Using fonts
• Leading
• Kerning and tracking
• Formatting characters
• Formatting paragraphs
• Aligning text
• Tabs and indents
• Bullets and numbering
• Text composition

Tables

• Creating tables
• Selecting and editing tables
• Formatting tables
• Table strokes and fills
• Table and cell styles

Long Document Features

• Creating book files
• Creating a table of contents
• Creating an index
• Working with markers

Drawing

• Understanding paths and shapes
• Drawing with the line or shape tools
• Drawing with the Pencil tool
• Drawing with the Pen tool
• Editing paths
• Applying line (stroke) settings
• Change corner appearance
• Compound paths and shapes

Graphics

• Understanding graphics formats
• Importing files from other applications
• Placing graphics
• Managing graphics links
• Reusing graphics and text

Frames and Objects

• Selecting objects
• Transforming objects
• Aligning and distributing objects
• Grouping, locking, and duplicating objects
• Working with frames and objects
• Clipping paths

Transparency Effects

• Adding transparency effects
• Blending colors
• Flattening transparent artwork

Color

• Understanding spot and process colors
• Applying color
• Working with swatches
• Tints
• Gradients
• Mixing inks
• Using colors from imported graphics

Trapping Color

• Trapping documents and books
• Trap presets
• Adjusting ink options for trapping

PDF

• Exporting to Adobe PDF
• Adobe PDF options
• Preparing PDFs for service providers
• Structuring PDFs

Interactive Documents

• Interactive web documents for Flash
• Dynamic PDF documents
• Bookmarks
• Hyperlinks
• Cross-references
• Movies and sounds
• Animation
• Page transitions
• Buttons

XML

• Working with XML
• Importing XML
• Tagging content for XML
• Structuring documents for XML
• Exporting XML

Printing

• Printing documents
• Printer’s marks and bleeds
• Printing thumbnails and oversized documents
• Printing graphics and fonts
• Managing color
• Preflighting files before handoff
• Creating PostScript and EPS files
• Printing booklets

Color Separations

• Preparing to print separations
• Overprinting
• Inks, separations, and screen frequency

Automation

• Scripting
• Plug‑ins
• Data merge

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