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LinkedIn Learning

InDesign for Editors

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Writers and editors: this InDesign course is for you. Learn how to efficiently edit and format text, navigate a document, and overcome problems when working with text in InDesign.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
1. The InDesign Environment
  • Opening and saving InDesign documents
  • The InDesign interface
  • Working with panels and creating an editorial workspace
  • Recovering from mistakes
  • Guides and nonprinting visual aids
  • Changing view size and navigating a document
2. Editing Text
  • Text selection methods
  • Basic text editing
  • Common problems when editing text
  • Changing case
  • Accessing special characters
  • Editing tables
  • Bulleted and numbered lists
  • Using Find/Change
3. Editorial Panels and Features
  • The Story Editor
  • Spell-checking and Dynamic Spelling
  • The Info panel
  • The Notes panel
  • The Track Changes panel
4. How InDesign Documents Are Constructed
  • Text frames
  • Master pages
  • Layers
  • Paragraph and character styles
  • The Paragraph Composer
5. Controlling Text Breaks
  • Hyphenation
  • Page and column breaks
  • Breaking lines for sense
  • Fixing widows and orphans
Conclusion
  • Goodbye and next steps

Taught by

Nigel French

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