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Advanced Character & Paragraph Styles

• Styles for Character & Paragrah text Overview
• Loading Styles
• Clearing Overrides
• Modify your Formatting and Redefining Styles
• Changing your defaults for Basic Paragraph Style
• Next Styles and shortcut for applying Next Styles
• Creating Nested Styles
• Using Nested Line Styles
• Grep Styles
• Using the Eyedropper to copy a style
• Importing Word Styles
• Using Quick Apply
• Customising Quick Apply settings

Working with Text

• Tips for working with threaded text frames
• Master Text Frame
• Text Frame Options
• Paragraph Rules
• Convert Text to Outlines
• Type on a Path

Long Documents / Books / TOCs / Indexes

• Autoflow
• Sectioning & Numbering
• Building a Book
• The Book Panel
• Controlling Page Numbering in a Book
• Exporting, Printing and Synchronizing a Book
• The Master Document
• Table of Contents using Styles
• Rebuilding TOCs
• Creating an Index
• Adding a First Level Index Entry
• Cross References
• Topics

Find & Change

• Find and Change Spelling
• Find and Change Character Formatting
• Search Options
• Saving Search Queries

GREP

• Using GREP to remove unwanted characters and spacings
• Using GREP to format repetitive categories of text

Using Libraries

• Creating and Saving Libraries
• Adding and Naming items
• Re-using Library items
• Library Options
• Creating and Using Snippets

Advanced Text Wrap

• Contour Text Wrap Options
• Editing a Text Wrap
• Master Page Text Wrap
• Using a Photoshop Path

Conditional Text

• Creating Conditions
• Applying Conditions
• Creating Condition Sets

Data Merge

• Setting up the Data
• Setting up the Template
• Setting Criteria and adding Data Fields
• Merging the Data
• Data Merge Layout Options
• Updating your Data
• Previewing your Merge

Interactive Documents

• Creating Hyperlinks
• Creating Bookmarks
• Creating Buttons
• Rollover States
• Adding Audio & Video
• Adding Page Transitions
• Creating Basic Animation
• Using Motion Presets
• Export to Interactive PDF, SWF and FLA

Tables

• Shortcuts for Creating Tables and Selecting Table components
• Converting Text to a Table
• Importing a Table from Word or Excel
• Pasting a Table
• Adding Table Heades and Footers
• Resizing Cells and Tables
• Formatting a Table
• Table and Cell Styles

Bridge

• Mini Bridge
• Creating a Contact Sheet
• Sychronizing Colour Settings

Advanced Master Pages

• Shortcuts for Working with and Navigating Pages
• Multiple Master Pages and Based on Master
• Shuffling Pages
• Creating Island Spreads
• Creating Different Sized Pages
• Overriding Master Items
• Removing Local Overrides
• Enable Layout Adjustment

Inline Frames and Anchored Objects

• Creating an Inline Frame
• Inline Frames and Leading
• Creating Hanging Side Heads
• Creating Above Line Objects
• Creating Anchored Objects

Object Styles

• Creating Object Styles
• Setting a Default Object Style
• Applying Object Styles
• Clearing Local Formatting
• Breaking the Style link

Object Layer Options

• Importing Illustrator and Photoshop Layers
• Showing Layers
• Layer Comps
• Update Link Options

Working with Clipping Paths

• Benefits of Using Clipping Paths
• Selecting an Existing Clipping Path
• Creating a Clipping Path
• Convert Clipping Path to Frame

Kuler

• The Kuler Panel
• Base Colours
• Creating Colour Sets
• Add Themes to Swatches

Drawing

• Points and Paths
• Controlling Handles and Adjusting Curve Points
• Using the Pen Tool
• Opening and Closing Paths
• Compound Paths
• Using Pathfinder

Printing Transparency

• The Flattener
• Transparency Tricks
• Creating a Flattener Preset
• Raster / Vector Balance
• Line Art & Text Resolution
• Gradient & Mesh Resolution
• Convert All Text to Outlines
• Applying Flattener Presets
• Flattener Preview

Separations Preview

• The Separations Preview Panel
• Ink Limit
• Previewing Overprinting

Preflight & Package

• Preflight Panel Overview
• Defining a Preflight Profile
• Performing a Preflight Check
• Embedding Preflight Profiles
• Preflight Reports and Fixing Errors
• Preflight Options
• Packaging your File
• Document Installed Fonts
• Updating Missing Images

Exporting to PDF, IDML, XHTML & ePubs

• Exporting for Print or Screen
• Compression Options
• Advanced Options
• Adding Security
• Defining a PDF Export Preset
• Export to IDML, XHTML
• Export for ePub (eBooks)