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InDesign Class - Intermediate
InDesign Training Class - Intermediate
Intermediate InDesign Class Length: 2 days
This two-day Adobe InDesign course is designed for individuals who already know the fundamentals of InDesign and want to learn more advanced functions to improve speed, productivity, and accuracy while working with longer and more complex documents. You'll learn more advanced styles, text formatting, graphics controls, and output in this advanced InDesign training class instructed by Adobe Certified Experts and the authors of more than ten books on InDesign, including the InDesign Digital Classroom. This is the second class in our series of InDesign classes.
This course focuses on improving efficiency and working with longer and complex documents with needs for consistent styling and methods to automate repetitive work. If you are looking for an InDesign class for books, magazines, or catalogs, or for working more efficiently with complex documents, this course is for you.
All our InDesign classroom sessions include a live instructor in the same classroom as you. This InDesign course has been updated for Adobe InDesign CC, but is fully appropriate for users of previous versions. This course is available as a regularly scheduled class at AGI's classroom training centers or as a private or custom InDesign training course at your location, or as an online class with a live instructor.
This intermediate InDesign class is also available as a private class for groups, companies, and organizations. To speak with a training representative, call 781-376-6044 or contact AGI using our InDesign training information form.
This course is available individually or as part of these certificate programs:
InDesign Class - Intermediate - Course Dates
All classes are led by a live instructor. Class times listed are Eastern time.
Intermediate Adobe InDesign Class - Topics Covered
Controlling Text and Type with InDesign
- Editing text using the Story Editor
- Using Track Changes
- Drag-and-drop text editing
- Adjusting text inset
- Vertically aligning text
- Viewing and changing the baseline grid
- Adding story jumps to auto-link continued text
- Placing text on a path
- Efficiently importing text to map styles and formatting
- Finding and fixing missing fonts
Using Advanced InDesign Styles for consistent formatting and efficiency
- Using nested styles
- Redefining styles
- Breaking links to styles
- Additional style options
- Creating a new style group
- Using Quick Apply
- Selecting all unused styles
- Editing export tags
- Sorting styles
- GREP styles
Advanced InDesign Graphics Features
- Auto fitting
- Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics
- Placing multiple graphics using Mini Bridge
- Applying object styles to images
- Using clipping paths and alpha channels
- Removing an image background
- Using anchored objects
- Advanced importing
- Importing layered Photoshop files
- Importing InDesign layouts as graphics
Advanced Tables in InDesign
- Formatting cells and text
- Text alignment and inset within a cell
- Formatting text in tables by column
- Working with tables in Story Editor
- Defining a header cell
- Setting column and row dimensions
- Setting a fixed row height
- Setting column width
- Creating and applying cell styles
- Creating and applying table styles
Using InDesign Book and Long Document Functionality
- Creating a book from multiple files
- Defining pagination and document order
- Synchronizing book attributes
- Creating captions
- Creating a Table of Contents
- Building an index
- Adding topics
- Adding cross-references
- Adding text variables
- Exporting from the Book panel
Creating Digital Documents using InDesign
- Interactive design considerations
- Adding a hyperlink
- Adding buttons
- Creating page transitions
- Creating animations
- Liquid Layout
- Linked Content
- Exporting an interactive PDF
- Creating a SWF file
- Adding PDF form fields
Using InDesign's Effects
- Applying opacity to objects
- Applying effects to strokes or fills
- Adjusting effects
- Object styles with effects
- Using Find/Change to apply object styles
- Converting text to a path
- Applying blending modes to objects
- Working with imported transparent files
- Applying an alpha channel selection
- Applying a path selection
Essential InDesign Skills for improved productivity
- Using the InDesign Pages panel
- Adjusting the workspace
- Using paragraph and character styles
- Applying object styles
- Using advanced Find/Change functionality
- Formatting graphics and setting default import options
- Controlling text wrap
- Using layers
Intermediate Adobe InDesign Class: Prerequisites
We recommend that you have the InDesign app before starting this InDesign course. You can purchase the software, subscribe to the Creative Cloud, or obtain a trial version of it from the Adobe website.
Intermediate Adobe InDesign Class: Materials
Participants in the intermediate InDesign class receive a comprehensive course manual for this class developed by the Adobe Certified Instructors at AGI. AGI instructors that have created many of the official InDesign training guides and books for Adobe Systems, and authored more than 10 books on Adobe InDesign. Our InDesign tutorials serve as examples of the quality of training materials that are created by our instructors.
Locations for Intermediate InDesign courses
Attend this InDesign course in-person or online. You can find details regarding all the InDesign classes near you that are available.