Development and Alumni Relations - Staff Learning & Development course timetable

How do those reports and documents get such a professional look? Everything just looks so good...

This InDesign course will allow you to do just that. By using paragraph and character styles, installing new fonts, arranging the layout of the page you can create professional looking documents and create them fast. You will also learn how to check your document for errors.

Getting Started with Adobe InDesign

• Identify Components of the InDesign Interface
• Customise the InDesign Interface
• Apply the Navigation Controls and Set Preferences

Designing a Document Using InDesign

• Establish Project Requirements
• Apply Design Principles
• Create a New Document
• Add Text to a Document
• Add Graphics to a Document

Use InDesign to Customise a Document

• Format Characters and Paragraphs
• Apply Colours, Swatches, and Gradients
• Create and Apply Styles

Working with Page Elements in InDesign

• Arrange and Align Objects
• Apply Layers
• Transform and Manipulate Objects
• Thread Text Frames
• Edit Text