InDesign Training

After all these years of staring at the InDesign icon on my dock, I can now open it up and maneuver my way around the software. Thanks to Rae Ouellette and Ramla Mahmood, art students at George Mason, for the informative whole-day workshops.

Some notes:

Preflights: shows errors
Paragraph styles: Similar to CSS
Text Frame Option: Change texts
Place: import texts and images including Word, TIFF (Photoshop), EPS (Illustrator)
Package: ready for printing
Put open quotation mark outside texts: story > optical margin alignment
Insert page number: type > insert special character > markers > current document number
Hyphenate: uncheck in paragraph window to clear hyphens at the end of the line.
Select objects: control click