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InDesign Course Online October 27, 2025 Advanced

InDesign Course - Advanced

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Online Training

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Move from proficiency to mastery with this advanced InDesign course. Created for graphic designers and digital marketers ready to explore the exceptional capabilities of InDesign, participants learn how to leverage templates, use advanced color features, create interactive documents, and share using digital publishing options. This two-day InDesign course teaches advanced skills and techniques to those who have an understanding of all topics covered in the introductory and intermediate InDesign training courses.

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Advanced InDesign course topics

Building InDesign templates

  • Advantages of template use
  • Creating a template layer
  • Loading swatches
  • Loading styles
  • Creating master pages
  • Basing masters
  • Overriding and detaching master objects
  • Creating styles
  • Basing styles
  • Clearing style overrides

Creating interactive documents using InDesign

  • Adding TOC bookmarks
  • Arranging, grouping, and sorting bookmarks
  • Creating a hyperlink
  • Creating a button
  • Action types
  • Changing button appearance
  • Adding a movies or sound
  • Choosing a poster frame
  • Changing movie options
  • Selecting an Acrobat format

Advanced interactive options with InDesign

  • Creating motion paths
  • Using existing objects as a motion path
  • Working with motion presets
  • Using Timing to change animation sequences
  • Using Layers for interactive elements
  • Building and organizing animations
  • Creating animation effects: type, slideshows, color transitions, and scrolling text.
  • Importing animations

Sharing InDesign documents using Adobe Publish Online

  • Understanding InDesign's Publish Online capabilities and limitations
  • Design considerations for Adobe publish online
  • Using Spreads in Digital Documents
  • Creating multi-page documents
  • Designing InDesign pages with different sizes
  • Understanding InDesign's Publishing settings
  • Sharing options: social media, email
  • Setting default view
  • PDF download option
  • Setting Image quality
  • Creating document thumbnail image
  • Updating previously published documents
  • Viewing analytics for published documents
  • Viewing published documents online: navigating the interface
  • Embedding Adobe Publish Online documents within a website

Using color and transparency in InDesign

  • Adjusting gradients
  • Using the Eyedropper with colors
  • Copying swatches between documents
  • Previewing color separations
  • Connecting effects and transparency
  • Feathering graphic margins
  • Blending mode options
  • Solving printing issues
  • Transparency flattener options
  • Understanding stitching

Working with long documents using InDesign

  • Combining files into books
  • Setting the page order
  • Creating a table of contents
  • Specifying a style source
  • Synchronizing long documents
  • Creating an index
  • Adding topics and cross-references
  • Generating an index
  • Exporting a book file
  • Print Booklet

Harnessing InDesign's XML capabilities

  • Viewing XML
  • Importing XML tags
  • Applying tags to text
  • Applying tags to graphic
  • Using the Structure pane
  • Exporting a document to XML
  • Importing XML data
  • Mapping tags to styles and styles to tags
  • Understanding DTD files
  • Validating XML structure

Using InDesign data merge

  • Merging steps
  • Choosing a data source
  • Inserting a text data field
  • Adding image fields
  • Previewing records
  • Updating data fields
  • Removing data fields
  • Replacing data fields
  • Merging records
  • Using data fields on master pages

InDesign productivity enhancers

  • Customizing keyboard shortcuts
  • Using Smart Guides
  • Importing and pasting text
  • Using the Eyedropper on text
  • Applying styles efficiently
  • Nested and next styles
  • Updating styled text
  • Using libraries
  • Creating and using snippets
  • Enabling layout adjustment
  • Proportionally placing graphics

Helpful preferences

  • Applying controlled leading in your text
  • Enabling Smart Text Reflow
  • Controlling how text raps around graphics and other objects
  • Setting up a baseline grid
  • Changing units and increments
  • Choosing the appearance of black
  • Viewing and changing the baseline grid
  • Restoring preferences and defaults
  • Resetting warning boxes
  • Clipboard handling


The course topics serve as an outline for the course. Instructors may adjust content based on the specific needs of each class, such as to answer your  InDesign questions.

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Why InDesign classes at AGI are the best option for you

  • Hands-on learning: Learn InDesign quickly with our proven teaching methods.
  • Exceptional curriculum: AGI has delivered InDesign training to thousands over 25 years.
  • Expert instructors: Our instructors are InDesign experts and skilled educators.
  • Small class sizes: Receive personalized attention with 10 or fewer participants per class.
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