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InDesign for Editors

InDesign for Editors

1h 20mBeginner2025-04-14

Authors

Nigel French

Nigel French

Graphic Designer, Author, Artist, Trainer

Course details

Discover how Adobe InDesign can streamline text editing for editors and publication managers in this comprehensive course. Gain confidence with essential tools for placing, flowing, and refining text to maintain quality and consistency. Learn to quickly address common problems such as overset text and formatting issues, while exploring features like tabs, paragraph and character styles, and the powerful Find/Change function. Delve into advanced capabilities like spellchecking, dynamic spelling, and the Track Changes panel to improve collaboration and accuracy. Explore techniques for managing page breaks, hyphenation, and text formatting to ensure clarity and reader engagement. By the end, you’ll be better equipped to handle all stages of the editorial workflow efficiently and effectively within InDesign.

Skills covered

Digital PublishingInDesignGraphic DesignAdobeOne-Off

Concepts

0. Introduction

  • 01 - InDesign as an editing tool

1. The InDesign Environment

  • 02 - Relinking missing or updated graphics
  • 03 - Opening and saving InDesign documents and templates
  • 04 - The InDesign interface
  • 05 - Working with panels and creating an editorial workspace
  • 06 - Recovering from mistakes
  • 07 - Guides and non-printing visual aids
  • 08 - Changing view size and navigating a document
  • 09 - Activating fonts

2. Editing Text

  • 10 - Text-selection methods
  • 11 - Placing text
  • 12 - Basic text editing
  • 13 - Dealing with over matter (overset) text
  • 14 - Common problems (and solutions) when editing text
  • 15 - Changing case
  • 16 - Accessing special characters and OpenType features
  • 17 - Using Find Change
  • 18 - Editing tables
  • 19 - Bullet and number lists

3. Editorial Tools

  • 20 - The Story Editor
  • 21 - Spellchecking and dynamic spelling
  • 22 - The Info panel
  • 23 - The notes panel
  • 24 - The track changes panel
  • 25 - Importing PDF comments
  • 26 - Share for Review

4. How InDesign Documents Are Made

  • 27 - Text frames
  • 28 - Parent pages
  • 29 - Layers
  • 30 - Paragraph and character styles
  • 31 - The paragraph composer and single line composer

5. Controlling Text Flow

  • 32 - Hyphenation
  • 33 - Page breaks and column breaks
  • 34 - Keeping lines together
  • 35 - Breaking lines for sense
  • 36 - Fixing widows and orphans

Conclusion

  • 37 - Next steps

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