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InDesign Course Online March 12, 2025 Intermediate

InDesign course - Intermediate

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10:00 am to 5:00 pm
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$695.00

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This intermediate InDesign course helps you to work more efficiently and build more complex documents. Learn to work with longer documents, create books, and discover advanced typography, color controls, snippets and libraries in this intermediate InDesign class. Become an expert at using styles to efficiently apply consistent formatting to text and images across documents, automating repetitive work while keeping documents looking professional and consistent. This class also teaches advanced methods for working with tables along with efficient ways to import, format and manage graphics with skills that help graphic designers, publishers, and digital marketers to efficiently create documents and publications.

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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
  • Using liquid layout
  • Working with linked content
  • Exporting to an interactive PDF
  • 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

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.
  • Repeat for Free: If you need a refresher or miss a class day, retake the InDesign class at no cost.