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InDesign CC 2018 New Features

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Overview

Discover what's new in InDesign CC 2018. Learn how to leverage these new features and enhancements to create and publish polished layouts.

InDesign CC 2018 boasts long-requested new features and enhancements that make it even easier for you to create and publish polished layouts. In this course, Anne-Marie Concepción provides an in-depth review of each of the new InDesign features and capabilities, including tips on how to best use them in your projects. To quickly get you up to speed, Anne-Marie starts by providing a fast-paced overview of where every new menu, preference setting, and button is located in InDesign CC 2018, and a rundown of which bugs have been fixed. She then does a deep dive into all the enhancements and new features you'll find for type and text, CC Libraries, endnotes, object styles, and more.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know
  • How to use the exercise files
1. New and Fixed
  • Overview of new features
  • What's fixed?
  • New features and what's fixed (2018.1)
  • New "New Document" dialog box
  • Adobe Stock InDesign templates (2017.1)
2. Type and Text
  • Font menu filtering
  • Paragraph borders: Basics
  • Paragraph borders: Tips
  • Linked text frames in CC Libraries
  • Linked text frame tips
  • New German dictionary
  • Removing forced line breaks in a TOC
3. Endnotes
  • Endnotes: Basics
  • Endnotes: Optional and custom settings
  • Importing endnotes from Word
  • Round trip Endnotes with InCopy
4. Better Exports
  • Exporting cleaner HTML
  • Creating more accessible PDFs
  • Export PDFs one page at a time
5. Enhanced Object Styles
  • Specifying size in an object style
  • Specifying object position in a style
Next Steps
  • Resources to help

Taught by

Anne-Marie Concepción

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