InDesign Guide
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Tools Selection tool For moving items (text boxes, picture boxes, lines etc
Type Tool For creating and editing text and text boxes Pen Tool For drawing shapes Picture Box Tool For creating picture boxes to drop pictures into (Click and hold on the tool for more options - circle, polygon etc)
Swatches For picking ‘Fill’ and ‘Stroke’ colours Line Tool For drawing Lines Box Tool For creating blocks of colour (Click and hold on the tool for more options - circle, polygon etc) Zoom Tool For zooming in and out (Hold down the ‘Alt’ key to zoom out
Pages For navigating to other pages Effects For adding drop shadows and altering the opacity of objects and pictures Links Information regarding your pictures and artwork Text Wrap To add a ‘wrap’ to items; to make text flow around an object or a picture Stroke To increase / decrease borders on items or the thickness of a line
Current Font
Font Size
Font Leading The space in between lines, set to ‘auto’ as default
Font Style - Bold, Italic etc
Text Justification Justify left, centre, right etc
Horizontal scaling
Left Indent (Text)
First line indent (Text)
Font Colour
Font Stroke Colour
Right Indent (Text)
Hyphenate Turn hyphenation on and off
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Swatches Selection tool For moving items (text boxes, picture boxes, lines etc Text Colour Type Tool For creating and editing text and text boxes Pen Tool For drawing shapes Picture Box Tool For creating picture boxes to drop pictures into (Click and hold on the tool for more options - circle, polygon etc)
Line Tool For drawing Lines
Box Colour Border Colour
Box Tool For creating blocks of colour (Click and hold on the tool for more options - circle, polygon etc)
This is White
Zoom Tool For zooming in and out (Hold down the ‘Alt’ key to zoom out
Pages
Pages Click on the numbers to go to individual pages
Pages Alternatively click the arrows to go forwards and backwards
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Effects Selection tool For moving items (text boxes, picture boxes, lines etc Adjust opacity of items (pictures, colour boxes etc
Type Tool For creating and editing text and text boxes
Line Tool For drawing Lines
Pen Tool For drawing shapes
Box Tool For creating blocks of colour (Click and hold on the tool for more options - circle, polygon etc)
Picture Box Tool For creating picture boxes to drop pictures into (Click and hold on the tool for more options - circle, polygon etc)
Zoom Tool For zooming in and out (Hold down the ‘Alt’ key to zoom out Click here for additional Effects
Links Information regarding your Links Links are any pictures or artwork within your document. You use the links pallet to check for any errors and if pictures are correctly formatted
Name of Picture / artwork
Click on any link to get in depth Information about that particular link
Error Warning
Page
Colour Profile
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Text Wrap Selection tool For moving items (text boxes, picture boxes, lines etc
Type Tool For creating and editing text and text boxes Pen Tool For drawing shapes Picture Box Tool For creating picture boxes to drop pictures into (Click and hold on the tool for more options - circle, polygon etc)
When an item is selected (picture box, colour block, text box) use the Text Wrap pallet to add a ‘Wrap’ to an item. If you add a ‘Wrap’ to an item, it will ‘nudge’ any text near the item. Line Tool For drawing Lines Add Wrap Use for box items
Box Tool For creating blocks of colour (Click and hold on the tool for more options - circle, polygon etc)
Use clipping path For photoshop pictures with clipping paths
No Wrap (Default) Zoom Tool For zooming in and out (Hold down the ‘Alt’ key to zoom out
Increase Wrap ‘Nudge’
Stroke
Stroke - For borders on boxes and thickness of lines
Increase / Decrease stroke thickness
Type of Stroke / Border
Align Stroke to Inside, Outside or Middle (best to keep to Inside)
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CTRL + B
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When text is selected hold down ‘CTRL’ and hit ‘B’ for additional options
Increase / Decrease Columns
Increase / Decrease Column Gutters
When a text box is selected use this to increase / decrease the text box indent Use this to align the text in a text box to the top, bottom or to force justification (force fill the text box)
Ignore Text Wrap (See previous page for Text Wrap) If you have multiple text boxes and you don’t want one or more of them to be affected by a text wrap - click on the text box(s) and select this option
PDF Creation Go to: File / Export... Make sure ‘Save as type:’ is set to Adobe pdf (Print) Select ‘Press Quality’
All Pages
Hit Export