Document Outline

• Legal notices
• Contents
• Chapter 1: What's New
  • New features summary
    • Adobe InDesign CC 2015 Release | June 2015
      • Mercury Performance Improvements
      • Publish Online (Technology Preview)
      • Enhancements to Creative Cloud Libraries
      • Paragraph and character styles
      • Color Themes
      • Color swatches
      • Linked Assets with CC Libraries
      • Paragraph shading
      • Images in Table Cells
      • Adobe Stock
      • Print PDF Export dialog viewing options
• Chapter 2: Workspace and workflow
  • Create new documents
    • Create a new document
    • New Document options
    • Document window overview
    • Create custom page sizes
    • Define document presets
    • Create a document using a preset
  • Sync Settings using Adobe Creative Cloud
    • Introduction
    • Sync settings at first launch
    • Using the sync settings feature
    • Sync settings on successive launches
    • Managing sync
      • What gets synced
      • Choose what you want to sync
      • Choose an option in case of conflict
    • What’s not supported
  • Toolbox
    • Toolbox overview
      • Display the toolbox
      • Display tool options
      • Display and select hidden tools
      • Select tools temporarily
      • View tool hints
      • Change the toolbox layout
    • Tools overview
    • Gallery of selection tools
    • Gallery of drawing and type tools
    • Gallery of transformation tools
    • Gallery of modification and navigation tools
  • Sharing content
    • Exporting content from InDesign
    • Assignments panel overview
    • Assignment files
    • Create assignments and add content (InDesign)
      • Create empty assignment files (InDesign)
      • Simultaneously create assignments and add content (InDesign)
      • Add content to existing assignments (InDesign)
      • Assignment file options (InDesign)
    • Export content as separate InCopy files (InDesign)
  • Saving documents
    • Save documents
      • Include previews in saved documents
      • Save an InDesign Markup (IDML) document
    • Save backwards to the previous InDesign version
    • Work with metadata
      • Add metadata using the File Info dialog box
      • Export metadata as an XMP file
      • Import metadata from an XMP file
      • Edit metadata in image files
  • Understanding a basic managed-file workflow
    • Sharing content
    • Ways to work with content in InCopy
    • Managed files
    • Best practices for working with managed files
    • Managed-file workflow examples
      • Local server workflow
      • E-mail package workflow
    • Enter user identification
    • Workflow icons
  • Workspace basics
    • Workspace overview
      • Hide or show all panels
      • Display panel options
      • (Illustrator) Adjust panel brightness
      • Reconfigure the Tools panel
    • Manage windows and panels
      • Rearrange, dock, or float document windows
      • Dock and undock panels
      • Move panels
      • Add and remove panels
      • Manipulate panel groups
      • Stack floating panels
      • Resize panels
      • Collapse and expand panel icons
    • Save and switch workspaces
      • Save a custom workspace
      • Display or switch workspaces
      • Delete a custom workspace
      • Restore the default workspace
      • (Photoshop) Restore a saved workspace arrangement
    • About view modes
    • Using the status bar
    • Control panel overview
      • Display the panel menu
      • Dock or float the Control panel
      • Customize the Control panel
    • About the Navigator panel
    • Use context menus
    • Change Interface preferences
  • Default keyboard shortcuts
    • Keys for tools
    • Keys for selecting and moving objects
    • Keys for transforming objects
    • Keys for editing paths and frames
    • Keys for tables
    • Keys for finding and changing text
    • Keys for working with type
    • Keys for navigating through and selecting text
    • Keys for viewing documents and document workspaces
    • Keys for working with XML
    • Keys for indexing
    • Keys for panels
    • Keys for the Control panel
    • Keys for type panels and dialog boxes
    • Keys for the character and paragraph styles
    • Keys for the Tabs panel
    • Keys for the Layers panel
    • Keys for the Pages panel
    • Keys for the Color panel
    • Keys for using the Separations Preview panel
    • Keys for the Swatches panel
    • Keys for the Transform panel
    • Keys for resolving conflicts between Mac OS 10.3x and 10.4
  • Setting preferences
    • About preferences and defaults
    • Set general preferences
    • Set defaults
      • Change default settings for new documents
      • Specify default settings for new objects in a document
    • Restore all preferences and default settings
    • About InDesign styles and presets
  • Working with files and templates
    • Recommended workflow for InDesign documents
    • Open InDesign documents
      • Use the Open command
      • Message indicating newer version of InDesign
      • Message indicating document color settings different from application
      • Message indicating missing or modified links
      • Message indicating missing fonts
      • Open recent document
      • Choosing word lists when opening documents
    • Convert earlier versions of InDesign documents
    • Using Adobe Bridge with InDesign
    • Adobe Version Cue
    • Use document templates
      • Save a document as a template
      • Start a new document from a template
      • Edit an existing template
    • Reviewing InDesign documents
    • Designing calendars and business cards from templates
  • Customize menus and keyboard shortcuts
    • Customize menus
      • Create a custom menu set
      • Select a custom menu set
      • Edit or delete a custom menu set
      • Show hidden menu items
    • Missing menu commands
    • Use keyboard shortcut sets
      • Change the active shortcut set
      • View shortcuts
      • Generate a list of shortcuts for printing
      • Create a new shortcut set
      • Create or redefine a shortcut
      • Copying keyboard shortcut sets
  • Recovery and undo
    • Recover documents
      • Find recovered documents
      • Change the location of recovered documents
    • Undo mistakes
  • Converting QuarkXPress and PageMaker documents
    • Open QuarkXPress files in InDesign
      • Open a QuarkXPress document or template
      • Save a QuarkXPress template as an InDesign template
      • What gets converted from QuarkXPress
    • Convert PageMaker documents
      • Open a PageMaker document or template
      • Save a PageMaker template as an InDesign template
      • Common PageMaker conversion issues
  • PageMaker menu commands
    • PageMaker File menu commands
    • PageMaker Edit menu commands
    • PageMaker Layout menu commands
    • PageMaker Type menu commands
    • PageMaker Element menu commands
    • PageMaker Utilities menu commands
    • PageMaker View menu commands
    • PageMaker Window menu commands
  • Assignment packages
    • Create and send packages (InDesign)
      • Create a package for manual distribution
      • Create a package for e-mail (InDesign)
      • Cancel a package
      • Update a package
    • Receive packages (InCopy)
      • Open a package (InCopy)
      • Return or forward a package (InCopy)
    • Receive return packages (InDesign)
  • Adjusting your workflow
    • Move content between assignments (InDesign)
    • Delete assignments (InDesign)
    • Relink missing assignment files (InDesign)
      • Re-create the assignment file in the original location
      • Change the assignment location
    • Correct mistakes
    • Overriding locked files (InDesign)
    • Unlink content files (InDesign)
    • Placing InCopy files in InDesign documents
  • Working with managed files
    • Open shared content
    • Check out content
      • Check out content (InDesign)
      • Check out content (InCopy)
    • Opening managed files (InCopy)
    • Update assignment files (InDesign)
    • Update content
      • Update content while opening a managed document (InDesign)
      • Update content while working (InDesign)
      • Update content while working (InCopy)
    • Accidentally updating your work
    • Update the InDesign layout
    • Check in content
      • Check in managed content (InDesign)
      • Check in managed content (InCopy)
    • Save changes (InDesign)
    • Save changes (InCopy)
  • Viewing the workspace
    • Zoom in and out
      • Zoom in or out
      • Use power zoom
      • Zoom to Actual Size
    • Adjust the view
      • Fit the page, spread, or pasteboard within the active window
      • Scroll the view
    • Turn pages
    • Work with additional windows
    • Use anti-aliasing for smoothing edges
    • Greek type
    • Calculate values in panels and dialog boxes
    • Enter values in panels and dialog boxes
  • Creating and saving your own workspace
  • Working with Tools
  • Setting preferences
  • Toolbox
• Chapter 3: Layout and design
  • Generate QR codes
    • About QR codes
    • Manage QR codes in InDesign
      • Generate QR code
      • Edit the content and color of the QR code
      • Modify the QR code’s frame attribute
      • Transform the QR code object
  • Add basic page numbering
    • Add a page number marker to a master page
    • Change the page numbering style
    • Common page numbering tasks
  • Creating a table of contents
    • About tables of contents
    • Creating tables of contents in books
    • Generate a table of contents
    • Create TOC styles for multiple lists
      • Create a TOC style
      • Import TOC styles from another document
    • Options for formatting a table of contents
    • Create TOC entries with tab leaders
    • Create a paragraph style with a tab leader
    • Update and edit a table of contents
      • Update a table of contents
      • Editing a table of contents
  • Footnotes
    • Create footnotes
    • Change footnote numbering and layout
      • Footnote numbering and formatting options
      • Footnote layout options
    • Work with footnote text
    • Textwrap with footnotes
      • Internal text wrap of objects in footnotes
      • External text wrap of objects in footnotes
      • Footnotes in non-rectangular frames
    • Delete footnotes
  • Text variables
    • Create and edit text variables
      • Create or edit text variables
      • Variable types
    • Insert text variables
    • Delete, convert, and import text variables
      • Delete text variables
      • Convert text variables to text
      • Import text variables from another document
  • Creating an index
    • About indexing
    • Index panel overview
    • Create a list of topics for an index
      • Add topics to the topics list
      • Import topics from another InDesign document
      • Edit an index topic
    • Add index entries
      • Add an index entry
      • Index a word, phrase, or list quickly
      • Create a new entry from an existing one
      • Index every occurrence of a word automatically
      • Edit an index entry
    • Page range options in indexes
    • Add “See” or “See also” cross-references to an index
    • Generate an index
      • Index formatting options
    • Change the sort order of indexes
      • Sort order of Japanese and Korean indexes
      • Sort order of Chinese indexes
    • Manage an index
      • View all index topics in a book
      • Remove unused topics from the Topic list
      • Delete index markers
      • Find an index entry in the Index panel
      • Locate index markers in a document
      • Capitalize index entries
  • Creating type on a path
    • Create type on a path
    • Edit or delete type on a path
      • Edit and format path-type characters
      • Delete type from a path
      • Tighten character spacing around sharp turns and acute angles
    • Adjust the type on a path position
      • Change the start or end position of type on a path
      • Slide type along a path
      • Flip type on a path
    • Apply an effect to type on a path
    • Add anchored objects to type on a path
  • Linked content
    • Content Collector tools
    • Place and link
    • Specify link options
    • Custom Style Mapping
    • Update a linked item
  • About pages and spreads
    • Change the page and spread display
    • Target or select a page or spread
    • Add new pages to a document
    • Create color labels for page thumbnails
  • Liquid Layouts and Alternate Layouts | CC, CS6
    • Recommended workflow
    • Liquid layouts
      • Liquid page rules
    • Alternate layouts
      • Create Alternate Layouts
  • Aligning and distributing objects
    • Align panel overview
    • Align or distribute objects
    • Align objects using the Gap tool
    • Distribute objects using Live Distribute
  • Create new documents (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean only)
    • Create a new document
    • Create a new document with a layout grid
    • Create a new document with margins and columns
    • New Document options
    • Document window overview
    • Create custom page sizes
    • Define document presets
    • Create a document using a preset
  • Formatting grids
    • Named Grids panel overview
    • Create named grid formats
      • Named Grid options
    • Apply a named grid to a frame
    • Edit named grids
    • Delete named grids
    • Import grid formats from other documents
  • Creating text and text frames
    • Create text frames
    • Move and resize text frames
      • Move a text frame
      • Resize a text frame
    • Using text frames on master pages
    • Change text frame properties
      • Add columns to a text frame
      • Change text frame inset spacing (margins)
      • First baseline offset options
      • Set baseline grids for a text frame
    • Determine word and character counts
    • Working with additional languages
  • Creating book files
    • Create a book file
    • Add documents to a book file
    • Manage book files
      • Save a book file
      • Close a book file
      • Remove book documents
      • Replace book documents
      • Open a book file in Explorer or Finder
    • Synchronize book documents
      • Select items to synchronize
      • Synchronize documents in a book file
      • Synchronizing master pages
    • Convert book files from previous InDesign versions
      • Convert a book file for use with InDesign CS5
      • Convert documents in a book file
    • Number pages, chapters, and paragraphs in a book
      • Change page and chapter numbering options for each document
      • Start numbering on an odd or even page
      • Turn off automatic page numbering in a book
      • Use sequential paragraph numbering in books
    • Print or output a book file
  • Creating documents
    • Customize the pasteboard and guides
    • Change document setup, margins, and columns
      • Change document setup
      • Change page margin and column settings
      • Create unequal column widths
  • Clipping paths
    • Clipping paths
    • Crop using a graphic’s path or alpha channel
    • Create a clipping path automatically
    • Clipping path options
    • Convert a clipping path to a graphics frame
  • Linking Content
  • Reviewing the Forms tools
  • Testing a form in Acrobat
  • Working with Frames
  • Creating cross-references (video 5:45)
  • Generating image captions with metadata (PDF, 148 KB)
  • Grid Mode and Live Distribute (video 2:48)
  • Live captions (video 3:04)
  • Making shiny graphics (PDF, 203 KB)
  • Managing documents with multiple page sizes (PDF, 136 KB)
  • Mini Bridge: Getting access to your assets (PDF, 180 KB)
  • Mixing page sizes with the new Page tool (video 8:03)
  • Paragraphs that span and split columns (video 2:01)
  • Rotating Spread view (video 3:31)
  • Spanning and Splitting columns (video 6:15)
  • Formatting grids
  • Frame grid properties
  • Grids
  • Grouping, locking, and duplicating objects
  • Importing files from other applications
  • Layers
  • Laying out frames and pages
  • Layout grids
  • Managing graphics links
  • Managing pages and spreads
  • Master pages
  • Numbering pages, chapters, and sections
  • Placing graphics
  • Reusing graphics and text
  • Ruler guides
  • Rulers and measurement units
  • Transforming objects
  • Understanding graphics formats
  • Working with files and templates
  • Working with frames and objects
• Chapter 4: Text
  • Threading text
    • Thread text frames
      • Add a new frame to the thread
      • Add an existing frame to the thread
      • Add a frame inside a sequence of threaded frames
      • Unthread text frames
    • Cut or delete threaded text frames
      • Cut a frame from a thread
      • Delete a frame from a thread
    • Flow text manually or automatically
      • Flow text manually
      • Flow text semi-automatically
      • Flow text automatically
      • Flow text automatically without adding pages
    • Use Smart Text Reflow
  • Wrapping text around objects
    • Wrap text around objects
      • Wrap text around simple objects
      • Wrap text around imported images
      • Create an inverted text wrap
    • Change the shape of a text wrap
    • Apply text wrap on master page items
    • Wrapping text around anchored objects
    • Suppress text wrap on hidden layers
    • Justify text next to wrap objects
    • Ignore text wrap in a text frame
  • Arabic and Hebrew features | CC, CS6
    • Adobe World-Ready Composers
    • Text direction
    • Story direction
    • Automatic Kashida insertion
    • Ligatures
    • Diacritical marks
    • Copy-paste from Microsoft Word
    • Default fonts
    • Legacy font support
    • Digit Types
    • Hyphenation
    • Find and replace
    • Glyphs
    • Justification Alternates
    • Special Middle East characters insertion
    • Table direction
    • Binding directions
    • Right to Left writing preferences
    • Page and chapter numbering
    • Writing direction in Gallery view and Story Editor
    • Diacritical coloring
  • Anchored objects
    • About anchored objects
    • Create an anchored object
      • Inserted Anchored Objects options
      • Inline and Above Line position options
      • Custom position options
    • Position a custom-positioned anchored object
    • Working with anchored objects using drag-and-drop (CS5.5)
      • Working with anchored objects using drag-and-drop (CS5.5)
    • Selecting and copying anchored objects
    • View anchored object markers on the page
    • Reposition an anchored object on the page manually
    • Resize an anchored object
    • Release an anchored object
  • Articles (CS5.5)
    • Introduction to articles
    • Create an article and add content to it
    • Add all page items in a document to an article
    • Managing articles
    • Include articles for export
  • Bullets and numbering
    • Create bulleted or numbered lists
    • Format a bulleted or numbered list
    • Change bullet characters
      • Change the bullet character
      • Add a bullet character
      • Remove a bullet character
    • Change numbered list options
    • Defining lists
      • Define a list
      • Edit a defined list
      • Delete a defined list
    • Create a paragraph style for running lists
    • Create multi-level lists
    • Create running captions for figures and tables
    • Restart or continue numbering for a list
      • Number a list from the previous or current story
      • Number a list from the previous or current document in a book
    • Convert list bullets or numbers to text
  • Find/Change
    • Find/Change overview
    • Find and change text
      • Find and change text
      • Find and change formatted text
      • Common Find/Change techniques
      • Search options for finding and changing text
    • Search using GREP expressions
      • Tips for constructing GREP searches
      • GREP search examples
    • Metacharacters for searching
    • Find and change objects
    • Find and change glyphs
    • Find and change fonts
    • Find/change items using queries
      • Search using queries
      • Save queries
      • Delete queries
      • Load queries
  • Glyphs and special characters
    • Glyphs panel overview
      • Open the Glyphs panel
      • Change the Glyphs panel view
      • Filter the glyphs that appear
      • Sort glyphs in the Glyphs panel
    • Insert glyphs and special characters
      • Insert special characters
      • Insert a glyph from a specified font
      • Insert a recently used glyph
      • Clear recently used glyphs
      • Replace a character with an alternate glyph
      • Display OpenType glyph attributes in the Glyphs panel
      • Highlight alternate glyphs in the text
    • Create and edit custom glyph sets
      • Create a custom glyph set
      • View a custom glyph set
      • Edit custom glyph sets
      • Delete glyphs from custom glyph sets
      • Delete custom glyph sets
      • Save and load glyph sets
    • Use quotation marks
      • Specify which quotation marks to use
      • Insert straight quotation marks
    • Insert white space characters
      • White space options
    • About Adobe SING Glyphlet Manager
  • Formatting CJK characters
    • Apply shatai to text
    • Rotate characters
    • Adjust aki before and after characters
    • Use tate-chu-yoko
      • Apply tate-chu-yoko
      • Remove tate-chu-yoko
      • Change tate-chu-yoko settings
      • Set Auto Tate-chu-yoko for specific paragraphs
    • Add Ruby to text
      • Ruby settings
    • Apply kenten
      • Apply kenten
      • Change kenten settings and color
    • Align text of different sizes
  • Spell-checking and language dictionaries
    • Check spelling
      • Set spelling preferences
      • Check spelling
      • Correct spelling errors as you type
      • Use dynamic spelling
    • Hyphenation and spelling dictionaries
      • Create or add user dictionaries
      • Set the default language dictionary for the current document
      • Set the default language dictionary for all new documents
      • Remove, relink, and reorder user dictionaries
      • Add words to dictionaries
      • Remove or edit words in dictionaries
      • Export a word list
      • Import a word list
      • Change dictionary preferences
      • Using dictionaries in a workgroup
  • Text Frame fitting options | CC, CS6
    • Flexible width columns
    • Persistent text frame fitting options
  • Adding text to frames
    • Add text to a document
      • Type text in a document
      • Type Asian text using inline input
      • Insert placeholder text
    • Paste text
      • Paste text from another application
      • Adjust spacing automatically when pasting text
    • Drag and drop text
    • Place (import) text
      • About import filters
      • Microsoft Word and RTF import options
      • Text-file import options
      • Microsoft Excel import options
      • Tagged-text import options
      • Save Word or RTF import options as presets
    • Import Buzzword documents
    • Link or embed imported text files
  • Editing text
    • Select text
      • Change what triple-clicking does
      • Select text in a frame that is covered
    • View hidden (nonprinting) characters
      • List of hidden characters
    • Add column, frame, and page breaks
      • Break options
    • Use the Story Editor
      • Open the Story Editor
      • Return to the layout window
      • Show or hide Story Editor items
      • Story Editor preferences
    • Use conditional text
      • Planning conditional documents
      • Create conditions
      • Apply conditions to text
      • Show or hide conditions
      • Use condition sets
      • Manage conditions
      • Find and change conditional text
  • Captions
    • Generate a caption from an image
    • Specify caption setup options
    • Create captions using variables
    • Define caption variables
  • Tracking and reviewing changes
    • Track changes
      • Turn on change tracking
      • How change tracking is displayed
      • Show or hide changes
      • Turn off change tracking
      • View change information in the Track Changes panel
    • Accept and reject changes
    • Set Track Changes preferences
    • Change the user name and color
  • Adding editorial notes in InDesign
    • Add editorial notes
    • Use Notes mode
    • Manage notes
    • Edit Notes preferences
  • Linked stories (CS5.5)
    • Create a linked story
    • Specify linked story options
    • Update a linked story
    • Edit original story
  • Creating bullets and numbering (video 12:16)
  • Creating conditional text (video 6:48)
  • Creating footnotes (video 2:44)
  • Linking text stories (PDF, 217 KB)
  • Track text changes (video 2:01)
  • Working with markers
• Chapter 5: Styles
  • Object styles
    • About object styles
    • Object Styles panel overview
      • Open the Object Style panel
      • Change how object styles are listed in the panel
    • Define object styles
      • Object style categories
    • Apply object styles
    • Use default object styles
    • Clear object style overrides
      • Clear object style overrides
      • Clear attributes ignored in an object style
    • Break the link to an object style
    • Rename an object style
    • Edit object styles
    • Delete an object style
    • Redefine an object style
    • Import object styles
  • Paragraph and character styles
    • About character and paragraph styles
    • Styles panel overview
      • Open the Paragraph Styles panel
      • Open the Character Styles panel
    • Add paragraph and character styles
      • Define paragraph or character styles
      • Base one paragraph or character style on another
      • Import styles from other documents
    • Map styles to export tags | CC, CS6, CS5.5
      • Introduction to export tags
      • Define style-tag mapping
      • Edit all export tags
    • Convert Word styles to InDesign styles
    • Apply styles
      • Apply a character style
      • Apply a paragraph style
      • Apply sequential styles to multiple paragraphs
    • Edit character and paragraph styles
      • Edit a style using the dialog box
      • Redefine a style to match selected text
    • Delete character or paragraph styles
    • Override character and paragraph styles
      • Preserve or remove overrides when applying paragraph styles
      • Clear paragraph style overrides
      • Break the link between text and its style
    • Convert style bullets and numbering to text
    • Find and replace character and paragraph styles
  • Drop caps and nested styles
    • Apply a character style to a drop cap
    • Create nested styles
      • Create one or more nested styles
      • Create nested line styles
      • Loop through nested styles
      • Nested style character style options
      • End a nested style
      • Remove the formatting of a nested style
    • Create GREP styles
  • Working with styles
    • Duplicate styles or style groups
    • Group styles
      • Create a style group
      • Copy styles to a group
      • Expand or collapse style groups
      • Delete style groups
    • Move and reorder styles
  • Applying GREP styles (video 4:46)
• Chapter 6: Typography
  • Using fonts
    • About fonts
    • Adobe Typekit
    • Installing fonts
    • Apply a font to text
    • Specify a typeface size
    • Previewing fonts
    • OpenType fonts
    • Apply OpenType font attributes
      • Apply OpenType font attributes
      • OpenType font attributes
    • Work with missing fonts
      • Make missing fonts available
      • Highlight substituted fonts in your document
    • Document installed fonts
    • Multiple master fonts
  • Formatting text
    • Format text
    • Text formatting precedence
    • Copy type attributes (Eyedropper)
      • Copy type attributes to unselected text
      • Copy type attributes to selected text
      • Change which text attributes the Eyedropper tool copies
    • Use Quick Apply
  • Text composition
    • Compose text
      • Composition methods
      • Choose a composition method for a paragraph
      • Set composition preferences
    • Hyphenate text
      • Adjust hyphenation manually
      • Adjust hyphenation automatically
      • Set automatic hyphenation options for a paragraph
    • Prevent unwanted word breaks
      • Prevent text from breaking
      • Create a nonbreaking hyphen
      • Create a nonbreaking space
    • Change Justification settings
      • Adjust word and letterspacing in justified text
      • Set glyph scaling in justified text
      • Use a flush space with justified text
      • Highlight lines that are too loose or tight
  • Formatting characters
    • Apply baseline shift
    • Make characters superscript or subscript in a non-OpenType font
    • Apply underline or strikethrough
      • Apply underline or strikethrough
      • Change underline or strikethrough options
    • Apply ligatures to letter pairs
    • Change the color, gradient, or stroke of text
    • Add transparency effects to text
    • Assign a language to text
    • Change the case of type
      • Change text to All Caps or Small Caps
      • Specify the size for small caps
      • Change capitalization
    • Scale type
      • Adjust vertical or horizontal scaling
      • Scale text by resizing the text frame in InDesign
      • Determine the appearance of scaled text values
    • Skew type
  • Aligning text
    • Align or justify text
    • Align paragraphs to a baseline grid
      • Align paragraphs to the baseline grid
      • Align only the first line to the baseline grid
    • Create balanced headline text
    • Create paragraphs that span or split columns
      • Span a paragraph across columns
      • Split a paragraph into columns
    • Align or justify text vertically within a text frame
  • Formatting paragraphs
    • Adjust paragraph spacing
    • Use drop caps
      • Create a drop cap
      • Remove a drop cap
    • Add rules (lines) above or below paragraphs
      • Add a rule above or below a paragraph
      • Remove a paragraph rule
    • Ways to control paragraph breaks
    • Control paragraph breaks using Keep Options
    • Create hanging punctuation
    • Create a shade (or color) behind a paragraph
  • Leading
    • About leading
    • Change leading
      • Change leading of selected text
      • Change the default leading percentage
      • Apply leading to whole paragraphs
  • Tabs and indents
    • Tabs dialog box overview
      • Open the Tabs dialog box
      • Align the Tabs dialog box ruler with your text
    • Set tabs
    • Repeat tabs
    • Move, delete, and edit tab settings
      • Move a tab setting
      • Delete a tab setting
      • Change a tab from one alignment to another
    • Specify characters for decimal tabs
    • Add tab leaders
    • Insert right indent tabs
    • Set indents
      • Set an indent using the Tabs dialog box
      • Set indents using the Paragraph panel or the Control panel
      • Reset indents
      • Create a hanging indent
      • Right-indent the last line of a paragraph
      • Use Indent To Here
  • Kerning and tracking
    • About kerning and tracking
    • Apply kerning to text
      • Use metrics kerning
      • Use optical kerning
      • Adjust kerning manually
      • Change the default kerning increment value
      • Turn off kerning for selected text
      • Adjust tracking
      • Highlight text containing custom kerning and tracking
    • Adjust kerning between words
  • Document installed fonts (video 2:29)
• Chapter 7: Tables
  • Formatting tables
    • Formatting tables
    • Resize columns, rows, and tables
      • Resize columns and rows
      • Resize rows or columns without changing the table width
      • Resize the entire table
      • Distribute columns and rows evenly
    • Change the spacing before or after a table
    • Break tables across frames
    • Add text before a table
    • Format text within a table
      • Insert tabs into a table cell
      • Change the alignment of text within a table cell
      • Rotate text in a cell
      • Change cell inset spacing
      • Text cells
      • Graphic cells
    • Merge and split cells
      • Merge cells
      • Unmerge cells
      • Split cells
    • Work with overset cells
      • Display the contents of an overset cell
      • Clip an image in a cell
  • Creating tables
    • Create tables
      • Create a table from scratch
      • Using the Insert Table option
      • Using the Create Table option
      • Create a table from existing text
      • Embed a table within a table
      • Importing tables from other applications
    • Add text to a table
    • Add graphics to a table
    • Add table headers and footers
      • Convert existing rows to header or footer rows
      • Change header or footer row options
      • Working with rows and columns
      • Drag-and-drop and duplicating rows/columns
      • Copy rows/columns and paste before/after
      • Remove header or footer rows
  • Table and cell styles
    • About table and cell styles
    • Table/Cell Styles panels overview
      • Open the Table Styles or Cell Styles panel
      • Change how styles are listed in the panel
    • Define table and cell styles
    • Load (import) table styles from other documents
    • Apply table and cell styles
    • Base one table or cell style on another
    • Edit table and cell styles
    • Delete table and cell styles
    • Redefine table or cell styles based on current formatting
    • Override table and cell styles
      • Preserve or remove overrides while applying a table style
      • Remove overrides while applying a cell style
      • Clear attributes not defined by a cell style
      • Clear table or cell overrides
    • Break the link to table or cell styles
  • Selecting and editing tables
    • Select table cells, rows, and columns
      • Select cells
      • Select entire columns or rows
      • Select all header, body, or footer rows
      • Select the entire table
    • Insert rows and columns
      • Insert a row
      • Insert a column
      • Insert multiple rows and columns
      • Insert a row or column by dragging
    • Delete rows, columns, or tables
    • Change the alignment of a table within a frame
    • Navigate within a table
      • Move within a table using Tab
      • Move within a table using arrow keys
      • Jump to a specific row in a table
    • Cut, copy, and paste table contents
    • Move or copy a table
    • Convert tables to text
    • Combine tables
    • Working with tables in Story Editor
  • Table strokes and fills
    • About table strokes and fills
    • Change the table border
    • Add stroke and fill to cells
      • Add stroke and fill using Cell Options
      • Add a stroke to cells using the Stroke panel
      • Add a fill to cells using the Swatches panel
      • Add a gradient to cells using the Gradient panel
    • Add diagonal lines to a cell
    • Table stroke and fill options
    • Alternate strokes and fills in a table
      • Add alternating strokes to a table
      • Add alternating fills to a table
      • Turn off alternating strokes and fills in a table
• Chapter 8: Interactivity
  • Forms | CC, CS6
    • Forms workflow
    • Add a form field
    • Specify tab order
      • Use Articles to specify tab order
      • Use Structure to specify tab order
  • Hyperlinks
    • Hyperlinks panel overview
      • Open the Hyperlinks panel
      • Sort hyperlinks in the Hyperlinks panel
      • Display hyperlinks in smaller rows
    • Create hyperlinks
      • Create a hyperlink to a web page (URL)
      • Create a hyperlink to a file
      • Create a hyperlink to an email message
      • Create a hyperlink to a page
      • Create a hyperlink destination
      • Create a hyperlink to a text anchor
      • Create a hyperlink to any shared destination
      • Hyperlink appearance options
      • Convert URLs to hyperlinks
    • Manage hyperlinks
      • Edit hyperlinks
      • Delete hyperlinks
      • Rename a hyperlink source
      • Edit or delete hyperlink destinations
      • Reset or update hyperlinks
      • Go to a hyperlink source or anchor
    • Editing hyperlinks imported from Word
  • Buttons
    • Create buttons
      • Create a button
      • Add a button from the Sample Buttons panel
      • Convert a button to an object
    • Make buttons interactive
      • Add actions to buttons
      • Event types
      • Action types
      • Edit or delete button actions
      • Create jumps to text anchors
    • Change button appearance for rollover and clicking
      • Change button appearances
      • Delete and disable appearances
    • Create multi-state objects
      • Create a multi-state object slide show
      • Edit a multi-state object
    • Create button hot spots
      • Display a hidden image on rollover
      • Display a different button on rollover
      • Changing PDF options for buttons
    • Set the button tab order
  • Cross-references
    • Insert cross-references
    • Using cross-reference formats
      • Create or edit cross-reference formats
      • Cross-reference building blocks
      • Creating cross-references to partial paragraphs
      • Apply character styles within a cross-reference
      • Load (import) cross-reference formats
      • Delete cross-reference formats
    • Manage cross-references
      • Update cross-references
      • Relink cross-references
      • Edit cross-references
      • Delete cross-references
      • Editing cross-reference source text
  • Interactive web documents for Flash
    • Create interactive SWF (Flash) files for the web
      • SWF export options
    • Create FLA files for the web
      • FLA export options
    • Flash export issues
  • Animation
    • Animate a document with motion presets
      • Convert selected objects to a motion path
      • Motion preset options
    • Manage motion presets
    • Edit a motion path
    • Use the Timing panel to change the animation order
  • Dynamic PDF documents
    • Create interactive documents for PDF
      • Export to interactive PDF options
    • Creating PDF forms (CS5.5 and CS5)
    • Preview interactive documents
      • Preview the document in a web browser
      • Edit Preview settings
    • Use Presentation Mode
  • Structuring PDFs
    • Adding structure to PDFs
    • How tags affect reuse and accessibility
    • Understanding and optimizing reflow
    • Tag page items
      • Tag page items automatically
      • Tag page items manually
    • Label graphics for use with screen-reader software
    • Group page items into an Article element
  • Page transitions
    • Apply page transitions
    • Clear transitions
    • Viewing page transitions in a PDF
  • Movies and sounds
    • Add movies and sound files to documents
      • Add a movie or a sound file
      • Change movie settings
      • Change sound settings
      • Poster options
      • Change media settings for interactive PDF files
      • Place a video file from a URL
    • Resize movie objects, posters, or frames
    • Relink legacy media files
  • Bookmarks
    • Create bookmarks for PDF
    • Manage bookmarks
      • Rename a bookmark
      • Delete a bookmark
      • Arrange, group, and sort bookmarks
  • Creating and editing motion presets (video 5:23)
  • Creating documents with Interactive features (video 8:06)
  • Creating interactive documents in a snap (PDF, 201 KB)
  • Creating multistate objects (PDF, 203 KB)
  • Creating rich interactive documents (PDF, 6.7 MB)
  • Exploring new FLA export options (video 6:26)
• Chapter 9: Drawing and painting
  • Drawing with lines and shapes
    • Draw basic lines and shapes
    • Draw multiple objects as a grid
    • Draw a placeholder shape
    • Specify polygon settings
    • Change the shape of a path automatically
  • Applying line (stroke) settings
    • Set strokes
    • Stroke panel options
    • Add start and end shapes
      • Create arrows using start and end shapes
      • Switch a path’s start and end shapes
    • Define custom stroke styles
    • Save custom stroke styles
      • Save a custom stroke style
      • To load a custom stroke style
      • To apply a custom stroke style
  • Editing paths
    • Select paths, segments, and anchor points
      • Select anchor points
      • Select path segments
      • Select all anchor points and segments in a path
      • Copy a path
    • Adjust path segments
      • Move straight segments
      • Adjust the length or angle of straight segments
      • Adjust the position or shape of curved segments
      • Delete a segment
      • Delete the handle of an anchor point
      • Extend an open path
      • Connect two open paths
      • Move or nudge anchor points or segments using the keyboard
    • Add or delete anchor points
      • Add or delete anchor points
      • Disable or temporarily override automatic Pen tool switching
    • Convert between smooth points and corner points
    • Split a path
      • Split a path using the Scissors tool
      • Open a path using the Pathfinder panel
    • Smooth out paths
    • Reshape closed paths or objects
    • About the Position tool
  • Drawing with the Pen tool
    • Draw straight line segments with the Pen tool
    • Draw curves with the Pen tool
    • Reposition anchor points as you draw
    • Finish drawing a path
    • Draw straight lines followed by curves
    • Draw curves followed by straight lines
    • Draw two curved segments connected by a corner
  • Understanding paths and shapes
    • Types of paths and shapes
    • About paths
    • About direction lines and direction points
  • Drawing with the Pencil tool
    • Draw with the Pencil tool
      • Draw freeform paths with the Pencil tool
      • Draw closed paths with the Pencil tool
    • Edit paths with the Pencil tool
      • Add to a path with the Pencil tool
      • Connect two paths with the Pencil tool
      • Reshape paths with the Pencil tool
    • Pencil tool options
  • Compound paths and shapes
    • About compound paths
    • Best practices for editing compound paths
    • Create a compound path
    • Change holes to fills in a compound path
    • Break up a compound path
    • Change the holes in a compound path
    • Create compound shapes
      • Create a compound shape
      • Release paths in a compound shape
    • Create paths from text outlines
      • Convert text outlines to paths
      • Convert a copy of text outlines to paths
  • Change corner appearance
    • Apply corner shapes using the Corner Options dialog box
    • Use Live Corners
    • Guidelines for applying corner shapes
• Chapter 10: Color
  • Applying color
    • Apply color
    • Select a color with the Color Picker
    • Apply the last used color
    • Remove fill or stroke color
    • Applying colors using drag-and-drop
    • Apply a color or gradient swatch
    • Apply color using the Color panel
      • Edit the fill or stroke color
    • Create a swatch from a color in the Color panel
    • Cycle through color modes
    • Generate color themes using the Color Theme tool
    • Apply colors using the Eyedropper tool
      • Apply colors using the Eyedropper tool
      • Pick up new attributes when the Eyedropper tool is loaded
      • Change Eyedropper tool settings
    • Apply colors to grayscale images
    • Adding and managing color groups
      • Adding color groups
      • Various operations to manage color groups
    • Create a color group with selected page item(s)
    • Load and save swatches from an ASE file
      • Load swatches
      • Save swatches
    • Importing themes from Color app
      • Support of legacy behavior
  • Understanding spot and process colors
    • About spot and process colors
    • About spot colors
    • About process colors
    • Using spot and process colors together
    • Comparing colors in InDesign and Illustrator
  • Tints
    • About tints
    • Create and edit tints
      • Create a tint swatch using the Swatches panel
      • Create a tint swatch using the Color panel
      • Create an unnamed tint
      • Edit a tint or base color swatch
  • Mixing inks
    • Create and edit mixed ink swatches
      • Create a mixed ink swatch
      • Create a mixed ink group
      • Edit mixed ink swatches
    • Manage mixed ink groups
      • Delete mixed ink groups
      • Add a swatch to a mixed ink group
      • Convert a single mixed ink swatch to a process color
      • Convert all inks in a mixed ink group to process
  • Gradients
    • About gradients
    • Create a gradient swatch
    • Apply an unnamed gradient using the Gradient panel
    • Modify gradients
      • Add intermediate colors to a gradient
      • Remove an intermediate color from a gradient
      • Reverse a gradient’s color progression
    • Adjust a gradient with the Gradient tools
    • Apply a gradient across multiple objects
    • Applying gradients to text
      • Multiple gradients in a single text frame
  • Working with swatches
    • Swatches panel overview
      • Swatch types
      • Customize swatch display
    • Create color swatches
      • Create a new color swatch
      • Create a swatch based on the color of an object
      • Add unnamed colors to the Swatches panel
    • Manage swatches
      • Edit the default colors in the Swatches panel
      • Duplicate a swatch
      • Edit a swatch
      • Control swatch names
      • Delete individual swatches
      • Delete all unused swatches
      • Merge swatches
      • Save swatches for use in other documents
      • Share swatches between applications
    • Import swatches
      • Import selected swatches from a file
      • Import all swatches from a file
      • Copy swatches between InDesign documents
      • Load swatches from predefined custom color libraries
      • Color libraries installed with InDesign
  • Using colors from imported graphics
    • Using colors from imported graphics
    • Using the Eyedropper tool to sample colors
    • Working with spot-color channels in an Adobe Photoshop (PSD) file
    • Working with colors from EPS or PDF files
    • Change an imported spot color to a process color
• Chapter 11: Transparency
  • Adding transparency effects
    • About transparency
    • Effects panel overview
      • Display Effects panel options
    • Apply transparency effects
      • Edit a transparency effect
      • Copy transparency effects
      • Clear transparency effects from an object
    • Transparency effects
      • Common transparency settings and options
      • Drop Shadow
      • Inner Shadow
      • Outer Glow
      • Inner Glow
      • Bevel and Emboss
      • Satin
      • Basic Feather
      • Directional Feather
      • Gradient Feather
    • Use Global Light
    • Set the opacity of an object
    • Applying transparency to groups
    • Change the appearance of transparent artwork on screen
    • Stop displaying transparency
    • Removing white box effect in documents with transparency
  • Flattening transparent artwork
    • About flattening
    • About transparency flattener presets
    • Apply a flattener preset for output
    • Create or edit a transparency flattener preset
    • Export and import a custom transparency flattener preset
    • Rename or delete a custom transparency flattener preset
    • Flatten an individual spread
    • Ignore the flattener preset on an individual spread
    • Transparency Flattener options
      • Highlight (preview) options
      • Transparency Flattener Preset options
    • Preview which areas of artwork will be flattened
    • Refresh the preview in the Flattener Preview panel
    • Best practices when creating transparency
  • Blending colors
    • Specify how colors blend
      • Blending mode options
    • Isolate blending modes
    • Knock out objects within a group
    • Specify a color space for blending transparent objects
• Chapter 12: Exporting and publishing
  • Publish Online (Preview)
    • What is Publish Online (Preview)?
    • What is a technology preview feature?
    • Publish an InDesign document online
    • Output of online document
    • Recently published documents
    • Disable or enable Publish Online (Preview)
  • Export content for EPUB
    • Overview
    • Export to EPUB
    • EPUB Export options - Fixed Layout
      • EPUB General options
    • EPUB Export options - Reflowable
      • EPUB General options
    • EPUB resources
  • Adobe PDF options
    • Adobe PDF option categories
    • About PDF/X standards
    • PDF compatibility levels
    • General options for PDFs
      • Pages
      • Viewing
      • Options
      • Include
    • Compression and downsampling options for PDFs
    • Marks and Bleeds options for PDFs
    • Color management and PDF/X output options for PDFs
    • Font, OPI, and flattening options for PDFs
    • Adding security to PDF files
    • Security options for PDFs
    • Font embedding and substitution
    • Preparing a document for on-screen viewing
  • Export content to HTML
  • Exporting to Adobe PDF
    • About Adobe PDF
    • Export to PDF for printing
      • Export an open document to PDF for printing
      • Prepare layers before exporting a book to PDF
      • Export a book to PDF
      • Reducing the size of PDFs
    • Adobe PDF presets
    • Customize Adobe PDF presets
    • Load Adobe PDF presets
      • Load PDF presets
      • Convert PDF presets from InDesign CS
    • Background Tasks panel
  • Export to JPEG format
  • Export content for EPUB | CS5.5
    • EPUB resources
    • EPUB General export options
    • EPUB Images options
    • EPUB Contents options
  • Export content for EPUB | CS6
    • Overview
    • Export to EPUB
    • EPUB Export options
      • EPUB General options
      • EPUB Image options
      • EPUB Advanced options
    • EPUB resources
  • Export content to HTML | CS6 & CS5.5
  • Exporting XML
    • Export document content to XML
    • Optimized image export options
    • Save tags only as XML
    • Edit an exported XML file
  • Build digital magazines with InDesign CS5.5 and Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (video 09:06)
  • Adding audio and video content to EPUB (video 02:46)
  • Controlling order of content export from InDesign to EPUB without changing your layout (video 04:54)
  • Creating covers and title pages for EPUB (video 05:50)
  • Exporting documents to EPUB (PDF, 265 KB)
  • Exporting to EPUB for the Apple iBookstore (PDF, 2.5 MB)
  • Setting object export options (PDF, 160 KB), CS5.5 and later
  • Styles mapped to tags in InDesign for improved EPUB export (video 05:13)
  • Using Object Export options to customize how objects and images export to EPUB ( video 05:18)
• Chapter 13: Printing
  • Printing booklets
    • Impose a document for booklet printing
      • Booklet types
      • Spacing, bleed, and margin options for booklet printing
    • Understanding creep
    • Preview or view a summary of booklet printing
    • Troubleshooting booklet printing
  • Printing thumbnails and oversized documents
    • Print thumbnails
    • Printing oversized documents
    • Tile a document
      • Tile a document automatically
      • Tile a document manually
    • Scale documents
      • Scale a document manually
      • Scale a document automatically
  • Preparing PDFs for service providers
    • About PDF print publishing tools
    • Checking your document before exporting
    • PDF pass-through printing
    • Produce a print-ready Adobe PDF file
  • Preflighting files before handoff
    • Preflight panel overview
      • Open the Preflight panel
    • Define preflight profiles
      • Define a preflight profile
      • Embed and unembed profiles
      • Export and load profiles
      • Delete a profile
    • View and resolve preflight errors
      • Turn on or off live preflighting
      • Resolve errors
      • Select a different profile
      • Specify a page range for preflighting
      • Set Preflight options
      • Limit the number of rows per error
      • Save error report
    • Preflight books
      • Set preflight options in a book
      • Resolve preflight errors in a book
    • Package files
      • Correct font errors
      • Repair links and images
  • Printer’s marks and bleeds
    • Specify printer’s marks
    • Print the bleed or slug areas
      • Marks and Bleed options
    • Change the page position on the media
  • Preparing to print separations
    • Creating separations
    • Prepare your document for color separations
    • Outputting spot colors
    • View the process color equivalents of a spot color
    • Print an object on all color plates
    • Printing gradients as separations
    • Printing a composite
    • Preview color separations
      • Preview separation plates
      • Preview ink coverage
      • Return to normal view
  • Printing documents
    • About printing
    • Print a document or book
      • Printing from within the Pages panel
      • Page printing options
      • Options for printing objects
    • Printing documents with multiple page sizes
    • Specifying pages to print
    • Specify paper size and page orientation
      • Specify paper size and orientation
      • Specify a custom paper size
    • Choose which layers are printed or exported to PDF
    • Printing to non-PostScript language printers
    • Print as bitmap
    • Preview documents
    • Setting up a printer
      • About printer drivers
      • Accessing printer driver features
      • Select a PPD file
    • Use print presets
      • Create print presets
      • Apply print presets
      • Edit print presets
      • Delete print presets
  • Creating PostScript and EPS files
    • Creating PostScript or EPS files
    • Choosing the right method for creating a PostScript file
    • About device- and driver-dependent PostScript files
    • Create a device-independent PostScript file
    • Create a device-dependent PostScript file using InDesign
    • Create a PostScript file using a PostScript printer driver (Windows)
    • Create a PostScript file using a PostScript printer driver (Mac OS)
    • Export pages in EPS format
      • EPS export options
  • Trap presets
    • Trap Presets panel overview
      • View trap preset settings
      • Compress the trap presets list
      • Identify unused trap presets
    • Create or modify a trap preset
    • Manage trap presets
      • Duplicate a trap preset
      • Delete a trap preset
      • Import presets from another InDesign document
    • Assign a trap preset to pages
    • Set up trapping page ranges
    • Trap preset options
      • Trap widths
      • Trap appearance
      • Trap thresholds
      • Trapping imported graphics
    • Set sliding traps
    • About trapping black
    • Set the trap width for colors next to black
    • Printing books with conflicting trap presets
  • Trapping documents and books
    • About ink trapping
    • Trapping methods
    • About automatic trapping
    • Automatic trapping requirements
    • Differences between built-in trapping and Adobe In-RIP Trapping
    • Trapping imported bitmap images
    • Trapping imported vector graphics
    • Trapping text
    • Maximizing trapping performance
    • Setting aside disk space for built-in trapping
    • Trap a document or book
  • Printing graphics and fonts
    • Options for printing graphics
    • Options for downloading fonts to a printer
    • PostScript printing options
    • Options for omitting graphics
  • Overprinting
    • About overprinting
    • Determining when to overprint manually
    • Overprinting page items
      • Overprint a stroke or fill
      • Overprint a paragraph rule
      • Overprint rules above footnotes
      • Simulate overprinting of spot inks
    • Change the black overprint setting
  • Adjusting ink options for trapping
    • Adjusting ink neutral density values
    • Customize trapping for specialty inks
    • Adjust the trapping sequence
  • Inks, separations, and screen frequency
    • Ink Manager overview
      • Open the Ink Manager
    • Specify which colors to separate
    • Separate spot colors as process
    • Create an ink alias for a spot color
    • Display or output spot colors using Lab values
    • About halftone screen frequency
    • Specify a halftone screen frequency and resolution
    • About emulsion and image exposure
    • Specify emulsion
    • Specify the image exposure
    • Checking separation and document settings
    • Proofing color separations
    • Producing in-RIP separations
    • Print or save separations
  • Printing booklets using your desktop printer
  • Adobe Creative Suite 5/5.5 Printing Guide (PDF, 21 MB)
• Chapter 14: Digital publications
  • Digital Publishing Suite overview
    • Digital Publishing Suite overview
  • Applying guide-based Liquid Layout rules
  • Applying object-based Liquid Layout rules
  • Understanding Liquid Layout rules
  • Using basic Liquid Layout rules: Scale, Recenter, and Based on Master
  • Working with Alternate Layouts
  • Folio Producer Tools (video 1:04)
• Chapter 15: Automation
  • Data merge
    • About data merge
    • Basic steps for merging data
    • About data source files
    • Add image fields in the data source file
    • About target documents
    • Select a data source
    • Insert data fields
      • Insert a text data field in the target document
      • Insert an image data field in the target document
    • Adding data field placeholders to master pages
    • Update, remove, or replace data source files
    • Preview records in the target document
    • Switching preview on or off
    • Edit data field placeholders
    • Set content placement options
    • Merge records
      • Merge single or multiple records
      • Limitations for merging multiple records
      • Merging to a PDF file
    • Update data fields
    • Overset text reports
    • Content placement options
    • Enhanced Datamerge
  • Plug-ins
    • Install plug-ins
    • Use Extension Manager to configure plug-ins
    • Integration with Creative Cloud Add-ons via the Browse Add-ons menu
  • Scripting
    • Scripting in InDesign
    • Scripts panel and Script Label panel overview
      • Open the Scripts panel
      • Open the Script Label panel
    • Running sample scripts
• Chapter 16: Accessibility
  • Creating accessible PDF documents (PDF, 2.6 MB)
• Chapter 17: System requirements
  • System requirements for Indesign