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Adobe InDesign CS6
Classroom In A Book
The official training workbook from Adobe Systems

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Contents

Getting Started
About Classroom in a Book
Prerequisites
Installing the software
Additional resources
Adobe certification
Checking for updates

Introducing the Workspace
Getting started
Looking at the workspace
Working with panels
Customizing the workspace
Changing the magnification of a document
Navigating through a document
Using context menus
Exploring on your own
Finding resources for using InDesign

Getting To Know InDesign
Getting started
Viewing the lesson document
Preflighting as you work
Viewing guides
Adding text
Working with styles
Working with graphics
Working with objects
Working with object styles
Exploring on your own

Setting up a Document and Working with Pages
Getting started
Creating and saving custom document settings
Creating a new document
Switching between open InDesign documents
Working with master pages
Applying master pages to document pages
Changing the size of pages
Adding sections to change page numbering
Placing text and graphics on document pages
Overriding master page items on document pages
Viewing the completed spread
Exploring on your own

Working with Objects
Getting started
Working with layers
Creating and modifying text frames
Creating and modifying graphics frames
Adding metadtata captions to graphics frames
Placing and linking graphics frames
Changing the shape of a frame
Wrapping text around a graphic
Modifying the shape of frames
Transforming and aligning objects
Selecting and modifying grouped objects
Finishing up
Exploring on your own


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Getting Started
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1 Introducing the Workspace

Lesson Overview
In this lesson, you'll learn how to do the following:
Select tools.
Use the Application bar and Control panel.
Manage document windows.
Work with panels.
Save you own customized workspace.
Change the magnification of the document.
Navigate through a document.
Use context menus.

This lesson will take approximately 45 minutes.

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The intuitive InDesign CS6 interface makes it easy to create compelling layouts like this. It is important to understand the InDesign work area to make the most of its powerful layout and design capabilities. The work area consists of the Application bar, Control panel, document window, menus, pasteboard, Tools panel, and other panels.

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Getting started

In this lesson, you'll practice using the work area and navigating through a few pages of a simple layout. This i the final version of the document—you won't be changing objects, adding graphics, or modifying text. You will only use this document to explore the InDesign CS6 work area.

To ensure that the preference and default settings of your Adobe InDesign CS6 program match those used in this lesson, move the InDesign Defaults file to a different folder following the procedure in "Saving and restoring the InDesign Defaults file" on page 3.

Start Adobe InDesign CS6. To ensure that the panels and menu commands match those used in this lesson, choose Window > Workspace > [Advanced] and then choose Window > Workspace > Reset Advanced.

Choose File > Open, and open the 01_Start.indd file in the Lesson_01 folder, located inside the Lessons folder within the InDesignCIB folder on hour hard disk. Scroll down to see pages 2 and 3 of the document. 


Looking at the workspace

The InDesign work area encompasses everything you see when you first open or create a document:

Menu bar
Application bar
Control panel
Tools panel
Other panels
Document window
Pasteboard and pages

You can customize the InDesign work area to suit your work style. For example, you can choose to display only the panels you frequently use, minimize and rearrange panel groups, resize windows, add more document windows, and so on.

The configuration of the work area is referred to as the workspace. You can save your custom workspace setup or choose among special-purpose configurations such as Digital Publishing, Printing and Proofing, and Typography.


About the Tools panel

The tools panel contain tools for creating and modifying page objects, adding and formatting text and images, and working with color. By default, the Tools panel is docked (essentially, glued) to the upper-left corner of the work area. In this exercise, you will undock the Tools panel, change it do horizontal, and experiment with selecting tools.

Locate the Tools panel at the far left side of the screen.

To undock the Tools panel and make it float in the workspace, drag the panel by its gray title bar to pull it into the pasteboard.

When the tools panel is floating, it can be a two-column vertical panel, a single-column vertical panel, or a single-column horizontal row.

With the Tools panel floating, click the double arrow () at the top of the tools panel. The Tools panel become one horizontal row.

As you work through the lessons in this book, you'll learn about each tool's specific function. Here you'll familiarize yourself with how to select the tools.

Position the pointer over the Selection tool () in the Tools panel. Notice that the tool's name and shortcut are displayed in the tool tip.

Some tools in the Tools panel display a small black triangle in the lower-right corner to indicate that the tool has related but hidden tools. To select a hidden tool, click and hold down the mouse button to display the menu; then select the tool you want. 

Click the Pencil tool () and hold down the mouse button to display a menu of tools. Select the Erase tool () and notice how it replaces the Pencil tool.

Click the Erase tool again, hold down the mouse button to display the menu, and choose the Pencil tool. This is the default tool that displays.

Point at each tool in the Tools panel to see its name and keyboard shortcut. For tools with a small black triangle, click the tool and hold down the mouse button to see its menu of additional tools. The tools with menus for hidden tools include:

Content Collector tool
Type tool
Pen tool
Rectangle Frame tool
Rectangle tool
Free Transformation tool
Eyedropper tool

Click the double arrow () in the Tools panel to turn it into a two-column vertical panel. Click the double arrow again to return to the default Tools panel.

To dock the Tools panel again, drag the gray dotted line () at the top of the Tools panel to the far left edge of the screen Release that tools panel when a blue line appears along the edge of the workspace. 

If necessary, choose View > Fit Spread in Window to reposition the pages in the center of the document window.


Reviewing the Application bar

At the top of the default workspace is the Application bar, which lets you launch Adobe Bridge CS6; change the magnification of the document; show and hide layout aids such as rulers and guides; change the screen mode among options such as Normal, Preview, and Presentation mode; and control how multiple document windows display. At the far right, you can select a workspace and search Adobe help resources.

To get familiar with the controls in the Application bar, point at each to display its tool tip.

To show and hide the Application bar in Mac OS, choose Window > Application Bar.

In Mac OS, the Application bar, document windows, and panels can be grouped into a single unit called the Application frame. This mimics working in a Windows application. To activate the APplication frame, choose Window > Application Frame.

You cannot hide the Application bar when Window > Application Frame is selected in Mac OS, and you cannot hide the Application bar at all in Windows.


Reviewing the Control Panel

The Control panel (Window > Control) offers quick access to options and command related to the current page item or objects you select. By default, the Control panel is docked at the top of the screen (below the Application bar in Mac OS and below the menu bar in Windows). However, you can dock it below the document window, convert it to a floating panel, or hide it altogether.

Scroll to center the spread in the document window.

Choose View > Screen Mode > Normal so you can see the frames that contain graphics and text.

With the Selection tool (), click the text "Just hum along..." at the top of the right-facing page. The Control panel now provides options for controlling the position, size, and other attributes of the selected object.

In the control panel, click the X, Y, W, and H arrows to see you you can reposition the selected text frame and change its dimensions.

Using the Type tool () ), select the text "Just hum along...." The Control panel now pro ides options for controlling paragraph and character formatting. Click on the pasteboard to deselect the text.

Choose View > Screen Mode > Preview to hide the frame edges again.

The Control panel can be moved if you don't like it at the top of the document window.

In the Control panel, drag the vertical dotted bar at the left into the document window. Release the mouse button to make the panel float. 

The Control panel can be docked at either the top or the bottom of the workspace.

To dock the Control panel again, drag the vertical bar on the left side back to the top of thew window, just beneath the application bar. A blue line indicates where the panel wi going to be docked when you release the mouse button.


Reviewing the document window and pasteboard

The document window contains all the pages in the document. Each page or spread is surrounded by its own pasteboard, which can store objects for the document as you create a layout. Objects on the pasteboard do not print. The pasteboard also provides additional space along the edges of the document for extending objects past the page edge (called a bleed). Bleeds are used when an object must print to the edge of a page. Controls for displaying different pages in the document are in the lower left of the document window.

To see more pages in the document, choose 25% from the Zoom level menu on the Application bar.

If necessary, click the Maximize button to enlarge the document window.

In Windows, the Maximize button is the middle box in the upper-right corner of the window.

In Mac OS, the Maximize button is t;he green button in the upper-left corner of the window.

To see the full size of the pasteboard for the pages in this document, choose View > Entire Pasteboard.

To view the page bleeds set up for this document, choose View > Screen Mode > Bleed.

Choose View > Screen Mode > Preview and then View > Fit Spread In Window to restore the view.

Now you'll move to another page.

In the lower-left corner of the document window, click the arrow next to the Page Number box to display a menu of document pages and master pages.

Choose 1 from the menu to display page 1 in the document window.

Click the arrow to the right of the Page Number box to turn to page 2.


Working with multiple document windows

You can have more than one document window open at a time. Here, you'll create a second window so that as you work, you can see two different views of the same document simultaneously.

Choose Window > Arrange > New Window For 01_Introduction.indd.

A new window titled 01_Introduction.indd:2 opens. The original window is now titled 01_Introduction.indd:1.

If necessary, in Mac OS, choose Window > Arrange > Title to display both windows onscreen.

Select the Zoom tool () in the Tools panel.

In one window, draw a marquee around the white box containing the words "Just hum along…" to zoom in on the text.
Notice that the other window stays at the same magnification. This configuration lets you see how any changes you make to the text affect the look of the layout. 

Choose Window > Arrange > Consolidate All Windows. This create a tab for each window.

Click the tags in the upper-left corner (below the Control panel) to control which document window displays.

Close the 01_Introduction.indd:2 window by clicking the Close Window button on the tab. The original document window remains open.

In Mac OS, resize and reposition the remaining window by clicking the Maximize button at the top of the document window.

Choose View > Fit Spread In Window.




Working with panels

Panels provide quick access to commonly used tool and features. By default, panels are docked at the right side of the screen (except the aforementioned Tools panel and Control panel). The default panels differ depending on the selected workspace, and each workspace remembers its panel configuration. You can reorganize panels in various ways. Here you'll experiment with opening, collapsing, and closing the default panels in the Advanced workspace.


Expanding and collapsing panels

In this exercise, you will expand and collapse a panel, hide the panel names, and expand all the panels in the dock.

Scroll as necessary to experiment with the panels against the pasteboard rather then the document.

In the default dock to the right of the document window, click the Pages panel icon to expand the Pages panel.

This technique is handy if you want to open a panel, use it briefly, and then close it.

You can choose from several techniques to collapse a panel.

When you've finished using the Pages panel, click the double arrow to the right of the panel names or click the Pages panel icon again to collapse the panel.

Now you'll open a panel by choosing it from the menu bar.

Choose Window > Text Wrap to display the Text Wrap panel.

To add the Text Wrap panel to the bottom of the dock, drat it by its title bar below the Character Styles panel; release the mouse button when the blue line appears.

To quickly open the Text Wrap panel, choose Window > Text Wrap.

To close the Text Wrap panel, drag if off the dock and click its close box.

To reduce the size of the panel dock, drag the left of the panel dock to the right until the names are hidden.

To expand all the panels in the dock, click the double arrow in the upper-right corner of the dock.

If you click the double arrow again, the panels collapse back to icons without names. For the next exercise, you will leave the panels expanded.


Rearranging and customizing panels

In this exercise, you will drag a single panel out of the dock to create a free-floating panel. Then, you will drag another panel into that panel to create a custom panel group. You will also ungroup the panels, stack them, and minimize them.

With the dock expanded, drag the tab of the Paragraph Styles panel to remove the panel from the dock.

To add the Character Styles panel to the floating Paragraph Styles panel, drag its tab into the bray area to the right of the Paragraph Styles panel tab. Release the mouse button when the blue line appears along the perimeter of the Paragraph Styles panel.

This action creates a panel group; you can drag any panel into a group.

To ungroup the panels, drag one of the panel tabs out of the panel group.

You can also stack floating panels in a vertical arrangement. You'll try that now.

Drag the tab of the Paragraph Styles panel to the bottom of the Character Styles panel. Release the mouse button when a blue line appears.

The panels are now stacked rather than grouped. Stacked panels attach vertically to each other. You can move the panels as a unit by dragging the topmost title bar. Next, you'll experiment with resizing the stacked panels.

Drag the lower-right corner of a panel to resize it.

Regroup the panels by dragging the tab of the Character Styles pane up next to the Paragraph Styles panel tab.

Minimize the panel group by double-clicking the gray area next to a panel's tab. Double-click the area again to expand the panels.

Leave the panels this way to be saved with a workspace in a later exercise.


Using Panel Menus

Most panels have additional panel-specific options. To access these options, you click the panel menu button to display a menu with additional commands and options for the selected panel.

In this exercise, you will change the display of the Swatches panel.

Drag the Swatches panel out of the dock at the right to create a free-floating panel.

In the upper right of the Swatches panel, click the panel menu button () to display the panel menu.

You can use the Swatches panel menu to create new color swatches, load swatches from another document, and more.

Choose Large Swatch from the Swatches panel menu.

Leave the panels this way to be saved with a workspace in a later exercise.



Customizing the workspace

A workspace is a configuration of panels and menus. InDesign provided a variety of workspaces for special purposes, such as Digital Publishing, Printing and Proofing, and Typography. You cannot modify the provided workspaces, but you can save your won. In this exercise, you will save the panel customizations from the previous exercises.

Choose Window > Workspace > New Workspace.

In the New Workspace dialog box, type Swatches and Styles in the Name box. If necessary, select Panel Locations and Menu Customization. Click OK.

Choose Window > Workspace to see that your custom workspace is selected. Choose each of the other workspaces to see the different default configurations. Click the menus in addition to looking at the panels.

Choose Window > Workspace > [Advanced] to return to the Advanced workspace.

Choose Window > Workspace > Reset Advanced to return to the default configuration. Then, choose View > Fit Spread In Window to center the pages within the document window.


Changing the magnification of a document

Controls in InDesign let you view documents at any level from 5% to 4000%. When a document is open, the current magnification percentage is displayed in the Zoom Level box in the Application bar (above the Control panel) and next to the filename in the document's tab or title bar.


Using the view commands

you can easily enlarge or reduce the view of a document by doing any of the following: 

Choose a percentage from the Zoom Level menu in the Application bar to enlarge or reduce the display by any preset increment.

Type a percentage in the Zoom Level box by placing an insertion point in the box, typing the desired viewing percent, and then pressing the Return or Enter key.

Choose View > Zoom In to enlarge the display by one preset increment.

Choose View > Zoom Out to reduce the display by one preset increment.

Choose View > Fit Page In Window to display the targeted page in the window.

Choose View > Fit Spread In Window to display the targeted spread in the window.

Choose View > Actual Size to display the document at 100%. (Depending on the dimensions of your document and your screen resolution, you may or may not see the entire document onscreen.)


Using the Zoom tool

In addition to the view commands, you can use the Zoom tool to magnify and reduce the view of a document. In this exercise, you will experiment with the Zoom tool.

Choose View > Fit Spread In Window to position pages 2 and 3 in the center of the window.

Select the Zoom tool () in the Tools panel and position it over the text at right. Notice that a plus sign appears in the center of the Zoom tool.

Click once. The view changes to the next preset magnification, centered on the point where you clicked. 

Now you'll reduce the view.

Position the Zoom tool over the text and hold down the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) key. A minus sign appears in the center of the Zoom tool. 

With the Alt or Option key still depressed, click once over the text; the view is reduced.

You can also use the Zoom tool to drag a marquee around a portion of a condiment to magnify a specific area.

With the zoom tool still selected, hold down the mouse button to drag a marquee around the text, and then release the mouse button.

The percentage by which the area is magnified depends on the size of the marquee: the smaller the marquee, the larger the degree of magnification.

In the Tools panel, double-click the Zoom tool to switch to a 100% view.

Because the Zoom tool is used frequently during the editing process to enlarge and reduce the view of your document, you can temporarily select it from the keyboard at any time without deselecting any other tool you may be using. You'll do that now.

Click the Selection tool () in the Tools panel and position it anywhere in the document window.

Hold down Ctrl+spacebar (Windows) or Command+spacebar (Mac OS) so that the selection tool icon becomes the Zoom tool icon, and then click the hummingbird to magnify the view. When you release the keys, the pointer returns to the Selection tool.

Hold down the Ctrl+Alt+spacebar (Windows) or Command+Option+spacebar (Mac OS) and click to zoom out.

Choose View > Fit Spread In Window to center the pages again.


Navigating through a document

There are several different ways to navigate through and InDesign document, including using the Pages panel, the Hand tool, the Go To Page dialog box, and controls in the document window.


Turning pages

You can turn pages using the Pages panel, the page buttons at the bottom of the document window, the scroll bars, or a variety of other methods. The Pages panel provides page icons for all of the pages in you document. Double-clicking any page icon or page number in the panel brings that page or spread into view. In this exercise, you will experiment with turning pages.

Click the Pages panel icon to expand the Pages panel.

Double-click the page 1 icon to center the first page in the document window.

To return to the first page of the document, use the menu in the lower left of the document window. Click the down arrow and choose 1.

Now you'll use the button at the bottom of the document window to change pages.

Click the Next Page button (the right-facing arrow) next to the Page Number box until the fourth page is displayed.

Click the Previous Page button (left-facing arrow) next to the Page Number box to switch until the first page is displayed.

Choose Layout > Go To Page.

In the Page box, type 2. Click OK.


Using the Hand tool

The Hand tool in the Tools panel lets you "push" the pages of a document around until you find exactly what you want to view. In this exercise, you will experiment with the Hand tool.

Select the Hand tool ().

Click and drag in any direction to move the page around, and then drag downward in the document window to display page 1.

Choose 400% from the Zoom Level menu on the Application bar.

With the Hand tool still selected, click the page and hold the mouse button down to display a view rectangle.

Drag the rectangle to view a different area of the page or a different page.

Release the mouse button to display the area that the view rectangle encompasses.

When the view rectangle is displayed, press the right and left arrows on your keyboard to increase and decrease the rectangle's size.

Double-click the Hand tool in the Tools panel to fit the page in the window.



Using context menus

In addition to the menus at the top of your screen, you can use context menus to display commands relevant to the active tool or selection. To display context menus, you position the pointer over a selected object or anywhere in the document window and click with the right mouse button (Windows) or press Control and hold down the mouse button (Mac OS).

Using the Selection tool (), click any object on the page, such as the text frame containing the words "If you don't know the words..."

Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the text frame. Note what options are available.

Select different types of objects on the page and display their context menus to see what commands are available.



Exploring on you own

Now that you have explored the work area, try some of the following tasks using either the 01_Introduction.indd document or you own document.

Choose Window > Utilities > Tool Hints to display information about the selected tool. Select various tools to learn more about them.

Choose Window > Info to display the Info panel. Notice the information provided about the document when no objects are selected. Click to select individual objects and see how the Info panel changes as you select them.

Learn more about existing key commands and how you can change them by exploring the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box (Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts).

Review the menu configurations and how you can edit them in the Menu Customization dialog box (Edit > Menus).

Try organizing you panels to meet your needs, and create your own workspace by choosing Window > Workspaces > New Workspace.



Finding resources for using InDesign

For complete and up-to-date information about using InDesign panels, tools, and other application features, use the Help menu and the Search box in the Application bar.


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Review questions

What are some of the ways you can change the magnification of a document?

How do you select tools in InDesign?

What are three ways to display a panel?

How do you create a panel group?


Review answers

You can choose command from the View me nu to zoom in, zoom out, fit the page to the window, and more. You can also use the Zoom tool in the Tools panel and click or drag over a document to enlarge or reduce the view. In addition ,you can use keyboard shortcuts to magnify or reduce the display. You can also use the Zoom Level box in the Application bar. 

You can click to select a tool in the Tools panel, or you can press the tool's keyboard shortcut. For example, you can press V to select the Selection tool from the keyboard; press and hold the keyboard shortcut to temporarily select the tool. You select hidden tools by positioning the pointer over a tool in the Tools panel and holding down the mouse button. When the hidden tools appear, select the tool.

To make a panel appear, click its icon, click its tab, or choose its name from the Window menu. For example, choose Window > Object & Layout > Align. YOu can also access type-specific panels from the Type menu.

Drag panel off the dock to create a free-floating panel. Drag the tab of any other panel into the tab bar of the new, free-floating panel. A panel group can be moved and resized as one panel.






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