Adobe InDesign CS4 Fundamentals Quick Course

Description

This Adobe InDesign CS4 Fundamentals quick course is for you if you are beginning to familiarize yourself with print layouts and designs using Adobe InDesign.  You want to learn about the tools and features available to you in Adobe InDesign CS4.  In this course, you will work with some of the tools and features to create eye-catching printed documents using InDesign CS4.  This is an instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.  If this course doesn't cover all the materials you're hoping to learn in a fundamentals course, please view our 2-day InDesign CS4 Fundamentals outline.   

Audience

This course is intended for students who want to explore the basic tools and features of InDesign for creating professional page layouts and designs.  To get the most out of this Adobe InDesign course, you should: 

  • Be familiar with the functions of your computers operating system such as creating folders, launching programs, copying and pasting objects, formatting text and retrieving and saving files. 
  • Familiarity with other Adobe software applications is helpful, but not required.

Course Length

1 Day

Performance-Based Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: 

  • Explore the various elements of the Adobe InDesign interface
  • Design documents
  • Enhance documents
  • Work with page elements
  • Manage objects
  • Work with tables
  • Finalize documents

Course Outline

Unit 1: Exploring the InDesign Environment

  • Explore the InDesign interface
  • Customize the interface
  • Explore the navigation controls
  • Set general and interface preferences

Unit 2: Designing Documents

  • Create a document
  • Add text
  • Add graphic
  • Convert other application files to InDesign

Unit 3: Enhancing Documents

  • Format characters and paragraphs
  • Apply color, swatches and gradients
  • Apply fills and strokes

Unit 4: Working with Page Elements

  • Arrange objects
  • Align objects
  • Manage page elements with layers
  • Set up pages

Unit 5: Managing Objects

  • Transform objects
  • Edit objects
  • Thread text frames
  • Search and replace objects
  • Edit text

Unit 6: Working with Tables

  • Create a table
  • Modify a table structure
  • Format a table
  • Create table and cell styles

Unit 7: Finalizing Documents

  • Check documents for errors
  • Print a document
  • Package files
  • Export PDF files for commercial printing
  • Prepare PDF files for web distribution

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