Course Description

This concentrated half-day course provides a practical introduction to Adobe InDesign's core functionality. Designed for busy professionals who need to quickly develop fundamental layout skills, this hands-on session focuses on the essential tools required to create professional documents. You'll learn how to navigate the interface, design basic layouts, format text, work with colours, and prepare files for production. Perfect for those who need to rapidly acquire practical InDesign skills, this streamlined course prioritises the most immediately applicable techniques that will enable you to start creating professional-looking documents straight away.

Target Student

Ideal for marketing professionals, administrative staff, and anyone who needs to create professional documents but has limited time for training. This course is perfect for complete beginners with no prior InDesign experience who need to quickly develop the skills to produce simple yet professional layouts such as flyers, brochures, or reports. If you're transitioning from Word or Publisher to InDesign, or need to rapidly acquire basic design skills for an upcoming project, this focused half-day session will equip you with the practical foundations to get started immediately.

Performance-Based Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Navigate and customise the InDesign interface to optimise workflow
• Create and set up new documents with appropriate settings for different purposes
• Import and format text and images effectively
• Apply colours and create basic styles to ensure design consistency
• Manage multi-page documents using layers and text threading
• Prepare and export documents for print or digital distribution

Course Content:

Getting Started with InDesign

• Identify Components of the InDesign Interface
• Customise the InDesign Interface
• Use Navigation Controls

Designing a Document

• Create a New Document
• Add Text and Images to a Document
• Import Text from a Word Document

Customising a Document

• Format Characters and Paragraphs
• Apply Colours (Swatches)
• Create and Apply Formatting Styles

Working with Page Elements

• Use Page and Ruler Guides
• Use Layers
• Thread Text Frames

Preparing a Document for Delivery

• Resolve Errors in a Document
• Package a Document
• Export PDF preset options