Introduction

This Authorised Advanced InDesign course will build on your existing skills to teach you how to make the most of InDesign’s advanced features.

Refine your DTP skills and learn to add more sophisticated page layouts and add eye-catching special effects to your documents.

Our friendly, certified Adobe trainers will quickly get you using these advanced featuresand share lots of tricks that they’ve learned over the years.

This is a hands-on course. It includes lots of time to practice and try things out for yourself the things that you are being taught

By the time you finish, you’ll be comfortable using a wide range of InDesign’s features.

✔ An advanced course that covers all of the InDesign’s more technical features.
✔ Plenty of one-to-one attention and time to ask questions.
✔ Friendly, expert trainers, small groups and a comfortable place to learn.
✔ All the materials and extras that you’ll ever need.
✔ Ongoing support and help with issues you have after the course.

What Will I Learn?

This course will make you an InDesign power user.

You’ll learn how to:

Quickly set up advanced page layouts using Master Text Frames, facing pages and bleed and slug.
Gain complete control of your images using anchors, clipping paths and the feathering effect.
Use advanced text features like glyphs, nested styles and baseline grid.
Automate new page and document creation using the Page tool and multiple Master Pages.

Am I Ready For This Course?

This advanced InDesign course is designed for delegates who have attended our Introductory Adobe InDesign training course, or who have an equivalent working knowledge of the package from their day-to-day work.

Your Training Day

Our courses run from 9.30am to roughly 4.15pm with refreshments throughout the day and a break for a tasty, freshly prepared lunch.

We offer a fun, supportive learning environment and comfortable, fully air-conditioned facilities. We also have some of the nicest instructors on the planet.

Also, you’ll receive:

✔ A full-colour A4 manual covering everything in the course so that you can recap.
✔ A USB stick for the course exercises to let you practice more in your own time.
✔ A Certificate of Attendance to show that you have been trained professionally to use InDesign.

Course Details

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Using Master Text Frames
Using Facing Pages
Understanding Bleed and Slug

Advanced Typography
Using Glyphs
Tabulated Text
Paragraph Rules
Setting Default Paragraph Styles
Custom Bullet Text
Vertical Alignment
Inset Spacing
Nested Styles
Creating a Table of Contents
Using the Baseline Grid
Working with Columns
Column Breaks
AutoCorrect
Find and Replace
Typography Preferences
Linking to Text Files
Ignoring Text Wrap

Anchored Images
Clipping Paths
Embedding
Placing Multiple Images
Auto Fit
Feather Effect
Transparency

Using the Page Tool
Rotating Pages
Multiple Master Pages
Section Breaks
Copying Pages across Docs
Shuffle Pages

The key topics trained are:

Basic Shapes
Using Pathfinder
Drawing Multiple Frames
Outlining Text
Text Along Paths
Setting Default Colours
Using Gradients
Using Libraries
Object Styles
Layers

Adobe InDesign Training – Advanced

Introduction

What Will I Learn?

Am I Ready For This Course?

Your Training Day

Course Details

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