InDesign 2025 Essential Training

Introduction

• InDesign: Learn the fundamentals
• Using the exercise files

1. Learning InDesign in 20 Minutes

• Getting started
• Adding or editing text
• Adding or replacing graphics
• Moving objects around
• Printing and exporting a PDF

2. Creating a Document

• New documents
• Guides and measurements
• Adding text frames
• Typing and editing text
• Choose a better workspace for editing
• Applying basic text formatting
• Importing graphics
• Saving documents and the History panel

3. Managing Pages

• Inserting, deleting, and moving pages
• Editing and applying parent pages
• Overriding parent page items
• Changing page size and margins
• Setting bleed and slug guides
• Adding page numbering

4. Text

• Importing text
• Threading text frames
• Setting text frame attributes
• Inserting special characters
• Using the Story Editor
• Checking spelling
• Using Find/Change
• Putting text on a path

5. Graphics

• Options when placing images
• Using the Links panel
• Editing graphics in their original app
• Cropping and fitting graphics
• GenAI images

6. Color and Transparency

• Stroking and filling frames and paths
• Transparency, drop shadows, and effects
• Creating color swatches
• The danger (and power) of unnamed colors
• Creating and applying gradient swatches

7. Frames and Paths

• Drawing path and frame shapes
• Adjusting corner options
• Creating text outlines

8. Managing Objects

• Resizing and rotating objects
• Duplicating objects and making grids
• Moving objects above or below each other
• Creating and controlling layers
• Aligning and distributing
• Understanding text wrap
• Using anchored objects

9. Text Formatting

• Applying advanced character formatting
• Using Find Font
• Applying formatting to a paragraph
• Using drop caps
• Adding rules (lines) above or below
• Setting tabs and tab stops
• Spanning and splitting paragraphs
• Adding automatic bullets and numbers
• Using Find/Change for text formatting
• Highlighting paragraphs with boxes

10. Styles

• Creating and applying paragraph styles
• Using character styles
• Editing, clearing, and redefining styles
• Using object styles

11. Tables

• Creating a table
• Adjusting rows and columns
• Formatting a table
• Formatting cells

12. Interactive Documents

• Adding hyperlinks
• Creating an interactive PDF
• Exporting to the web with Publish Online

13. Package, Print, and Exporting

• Packaging and preflight for output
• Using the Print dialog box
• Exporting a PDF

Conclusion

• Next steps