Course Content
What the InDesign: Creating Long Documents course covers
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Unit 1: Setting a Layout
- Creating Professional Documents
- Planning your Document
- Understanding the Document Layout
- Creating Ruler Guides
- Working with Ruler Guides
- Selecting Ruler Guides
- Working with Smart Guides
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Unit 2: Advanced Layers
- Creating layers for a Magazine Layout
- Adding Objects to Layers
- Understanding Pages and Spreads
- Targeting or Selecting a Page or Spread
- Understand how to Move, Duplicate, and Delete Pages and Spreads
- Controlling Spread Pagination
- Redistribute Pages
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Unit 3 : Master Pages
- Creating Masters
- Create a Master from an Existing Page or Spread
- Base One Master on Another
- Editing the Layout of a Master
- Applying Master Pages
- Copying Masters
- Copy a Master Within a Document
- Override or Detach Master Items
- Detach a Master Item
- Prevent a Master Item from Being Overridden
- Reapply Master Items
- Hide Master Items
- Import a Master from Another Document
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Unit 4 : Numbering Pages
- Add Page, Section, and Chapter Numbering
- Define Section Numbering
- Document Numbering Options
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Unit 5: Text variables
- Create and Edit Text Variables
- Understanding Variable Types
- Chapter Number
- Creation Date, Modification Date, and Output Date
- File Name
- Last Page Number
- Running Header (Paragraph or Character Style)
- Custom Text
- Understanding Footnotes
- Creating Footnotes
- Changing Footnote Numbering and Layout
- Footnote Numbering and Formatting Options
- Footnote Layout Options
- Deleting Footnotes
- Working with Footnote Text
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Unit 6: Styles
- Understanding Paragraph and Character Styles
- Advanced use of Character and Paragraph Styles
- Creating GREP Styles
- Understanding Object Styles
- Working with Styles
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Unit 7: Generating Books
- Creating Book Files
- Adding Documents to a Book File
- Managing Book Files
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Unit 8: Table of Contents and Indexes
- Advanced Tables of Contents
- Creating Tables of Contents in Books
- Generate a Table of Contents
- Create or Import TOC Styles
- Create an Index
- About Indexing
- Import Topics from Another InDesign Document
- Generate an Index
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Unit 9: Automation
- Understanding Scripting
- Scripts Panel and Script Label Panel Overview
- Enable scripts Attached to Menus
- Understand how to Install Plug-ins
- Configure Plug-ins
- Understanding Data Merge
- Advanced Data Merge
- Merging to a PDF file
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