Work Faster with InDesign

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Navigating InDesign Faster

Lecture 1: Zooming in and out – images

Lecture 2: Zooming in and out – text

Lecture 3: Switching between Selection and Type tools

Lecture 4: Hiding and showing guides

Lecture 5: Intuitive screen scrolling

Lecture 6: Navigating within Presentation Mode

Chapter 3: Working Faster with Panels and Menus

Lecture 1: Quickly hiding and showing panels

Lecture 2: Workspaces 1: Switching and resetting

Lecture 3: Workspaces 2: About custom Workspaces

Lecture 4: Workspaces 3: Creating a custom Workspace

Lecture 5: Workspaces 4: Save and amend a custom Workspace

Lecture 6: Alphabetical menus and Quick Apply

Lecture 7: Finding more shortcuts

Lecture 8: Create new shortcuts

Chapter 4: Working Faster with Images

Lecture 1: Placing multiple images and Fill Frame Proportionally

Lecture 2: Using Gridify and the Content Collector

Lecture 3: Quickly sorting images with Bridge

Lecture 4: Pre-emptively choosing Fill Frame Proportionally

Lecture 5: Making Fill Frame Proportionally a default

Lecture 6: Scaling images with shortcut keys

Lecture 7: Selecting underneath something & Scaling image vs frame

Lecture 8: Scale a logo by dragging

Lecture 9: Scale a logo to a specific size

Chapter 5: Working Faster with Text – 1: General

Lecture 1: Quickly select a word / line / paragraph / story

Lecture 2: Navigating within Text

Lecture 3: Quickly selecting to the end of a story

Lecture 4: Text shortcuts: size / tracking / kerning

Lecture 5: Text shortcuts and preferences

Lecture 6: Quick Control Panel access

Lecture 7: Control Panel: Swapping text modes

Lecture 8: The two most useful text shortcuts

Chapter 6: Working Faster with Swatches

Lecture 1: Quickly sampling colours from an image

Lecture 2: Selecting swatches with keyboard shortcuts

Lecture 3: Previewing text colours

Chapter 7: Work Faster with Pages

Lecture 1: New Document dialogue box shortcuts

Lecture 2: Using colours and prefixes to identify pages

Lecture 3: Making the Pages Panel more useful

Chapter 8: Working Faster with Text – 2: Editorial

Lecture 1: Quickly removing multiple returns and spaces

Lecture 2: Quickly changing dashes to em-dashes

Lecture 3: Using an additional window when removing overset text

Chapter 9: Working Faster with Text – 3: Paragraph Styles

Lecture 1: Why you should use paragraph styles

Lecture 2: How to make a paragraph style

Lecture 3: Making text consistent quickly

Lecture 4: Quickly adjusting a paragraph style

Lecture 5: Applying Paragraph Styles with shortcuts

Lecture 6: Applying Paragraph Styles with shortcuts [on a laptop]

Lecture 7: Save hours with Apply Next Style

Chapter 10: Preparing for Print Faster

Lecture 1: Find Low Resolution images faster

Lecture 2: See at a glance where your images reside

Lecture 3: Quickly copy and re-link all your images

Lecture 4: Save time with a preflight profile

Lecture 5: Export your files faster

Chapter 11: Working Faster with Layouts

Lecture 1: Changing grid gaps quickly

Lecture 2: Adjusting the scaling and space between multiple objects

Lecture 3: Automatically Placing an object in the right location