Do you want to work faster with InDesign? Work more intuitively? Know you’re doing things the best way? This course distills my 20+ years of using and teaching InDesign to many thousands of students. In course you’ll learn more than 100 of InDesign’s best shortcuts, tips and tricks. I can guarantee you’ll not only use it much faster, but with more accuracy and confidence too.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Navigation shortcuts general
- Navigating with text
- Switching between the selection tool and the type tool
- Hiding grids and guides
- Scrolling the screen using shortcut keys
- Get in and out of presentation mode
- Hide and show panels quickly
- Switching and resetting workspaces
- About custom workspaces
- Prepare a custom workspace
- Save and amend a custom workspace
- Using alphabetical menus and quick apply
- Finding keyboard shortcuts
- Creating keyboard shortcuts
- Placibg multiple images and fill frame proportionally
- Using gridify and the content collector
- Quick sorting images with Bridge
- Preemptive fill frame proportionally
- Apply fill frame proportionally by default
- Scaling an image with a keyboard shortcut
- Select an object behind another object and scale its contents
- Scaling a logo by dragging
- Scale a logo to a specific size
- Quick text selection shortcuts
- Text navigation shortcuts
- Selecting to the end of a story
- Change text size with keyboard shortcuts
- Adjust tracking & kerning with keyboard shortcuts
- Navigating the control panel with keyboard shortcuts
- How to toggle between paragraph and character options in the control panel
- The most useful shortcuts for tweaking text
- Sampling colours from an image
- Applying swatches with arrow keys
- Previewing text colours
- New document shortcuts & jump to page
- Organising pages with colours and prefixes
- A more useful page panel
- Removing multiple spaces or multiple returns quickly
- Changing dashes to em dashes quickly
- An additional window for overset text
- Why you should use paragraph styles
- How to create a paragraph style
- Quickly getting text consistent
- Quickly redefining a paragraph style
- Quickly apply paragraph styles
- Quickly apply paragraph styles on a laptop
- Save hours using next style
- Easily locate low res images
- Quickly discover where your images reside
- Quickly copy your links
- Save time with a preflight profile
- Export faster to pdf
- How to adjust a gridify gap
- Adjusting scale & spacing of multiple objects
- Automatic object placement with libraries
Taught by
Peter Bone
