Adobe InDesign

Explore the InDesign Workspace • The document window is where you work. • The pasteboard is where you store objects for

later use in your document. • Objects on the pasteboard do not print but

are saved with the file.

Explore the InDesign Workspace

Rulers Margin guides

Ruler guide

Frame edges

View and Modify Page Elements

Frames are shapes that you fill with color, text, or graphics.

You can opt to hide or show frame edges.

If you show frame edges, they will be highlighted when a frame is selected.

View and Modify Page Elements

View and Modify Page Elements

Screen modes are options for viewing your documents.

In Normal mode, you can see all page elements, including margin guides, ruler guides, frame edges, and the pasteboard.

Preview mode shows what your page looks like with all non-printing elements removed.

Presentation mode presents your document full screen against a black background.

Navigate Presentation Modes

Preferences

Select to open documents as tabs in Interface preferences

Double-click page icon to view page

Double-click page numbers to view spread in window

Navigate Through a Document • Create multi-page

documents, such as magazines.

• Left and right pages that face each other are called spreads.

• Navigate through spreads by clicking the page icons on the Pages panel.

• You can apply color labels to thumbnails in the Pages panel - Color labels are useful for organization and collaboration

• Objects are text or graphic elements, such as images or blocks of color or lines, that are placed in a document.

• Objects have frames, and frames have handles that you click and drag to affect how the frame and contents look.

Work with Objects and Smart Guides

Objects

Hide objects and they won’t print.

Lock objects to make them immovable.

Group objects to protect relationships between multiple objects.

Smart Guides

If activated, smart guides appear automatically when you move objects in the document.

Smart guides give you visual clues to position objects precisely.

Smart guides align the top edges of two objects

Work with Objects and Smart Guides

Format Text Use the Character

panel to: • Modify leading • Track and kern text • Apply horizontal or

vertical scale • Perform baseline shift • Skew text

Spacing Leading is the vertical space between lines of text, measured from the baseline of one line of text to the next

Baseline is the imaginary line on which text sits.

Kerning means to increase or decrease the space between a pair of characters.

Tracking is like kerning but it is applied to an entire word, sentence or paragraph.

Example of a superscript

Superscript • Superscript characters

are small characters positioned to the upper-right of a word.

• A footnote is a superscript.

• Subscript characters rest below the word.

Rules

You can underline text and create horizontal, vertical, or diagonal lines, which are called rules.

You can scale text horizontally and vertically to add dimension to the font size you’ve chosen for your text.

Format Paragraphs • The Paragraph

panel is the command center for modifying paragraphs or blocks of text also known as body copy.

• The Paragraph panel controls text alignment, indents, space before and after paragraphs and drop shadows.

Format Paragraphs A drop cap is a design element in which the first letter or letters of a paragraph are increased in size to create a visual effect.

A pull quote is a paragraph in which both the left and right indents are larger than the other paragraphs in the same document.

Widows and orphans are words or single lines of text that become separated from the other lines in a paragraph.

Orphans are left alone at the bottom and widows at the top of a page. Use the Paragraph panel to manage widows and orphans.

Returns

A paragraph return, also called a hard return, moves text down and creates a new paragraph.

A soft return moves words down to the next baseline but does not create a new paragraph.

Styles

• A style is a group of formatting attributes, such as font, font size, color, and tracking, that you can apply to text.

• Using styles saves time and keeps a consistent look in a document.

Using Styling Use the Character Styles panel to create styles for individual words or characters, such as a footnote.

Use the Paragraph Styles panel to apply a style, such as indents and drop caps, to a paragraph.

You can make formatting choices or changes to a style in the New Character Style dialog box or the New Paragraph Style dialog box.

You can set up which style you want to use in the Paragraph Styles panel.

You can use the Quick Apply button on the Control panel to access character and paragraph styles easily.

Set options for styles in the New Character Style dialog box

Create and Apply Styles

Glyphs • Type characters that you won’t find on your

keyboard—characters such as trademark and registration mark signs, arrows, cent signs, boxes, and so forth

• Click Type on the Menu bar, then click Glyphs to display the Glyphs panel.

• Click the document window with the Type tool, then double-click the glyph on the Glyphs panel that you wish to insert.

Type what you want to find

Type what you want to change it to

Find and Replace

• Use the Find/Change command to find text in a document and change it to something else.

Misspelled word

Suggestions

Spelling – Use the Check Spelling

dialog box to find and replace misspelled words.

– Use Dynamic Spelling to allow InDesign to underline words that are misspelled.

– Use Autocorrect to allow InDesign to correct misspelled words.

Bulleted and Numbered Lists • Select a bulleted or

numbered list to change its formatting.

• Use bulleted and numbered lists to organize information.

• Each item in a bulleted list is a paragraph.