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Training Course Summary:

You already know how to create a basic multi-page document. In this course, you will build upon those skills, using additional techniques to manipulate text, pictures, and pages. You will control type formatting, create and edit graphics, and create and modify layouts with efficiency and accuracy.

Base master pages on others; and apply master pages to multiple pages.
Decide whether to retain formatting, base styles on one another; and import and redefine styles.
Position graphics so they flow within text; control composition, hyphenation, and justification; track and kern types; and scale text frames.
Drag items between document windows; import files from various formats; and store and retrieve items in libraries.
Edit paths; create compound paths; edit clipping paths; and convert text to outlines.
Create sections to change page numbering within a document; and navigate in a sectioned document.
Create a table of contents; create an index; and create a book consisting of multiple documents.
Save print presets; and work with printing color separation.
Import XML tags and apply them to document content; and import XML into a document's layout placeholders and into a blank document.

Training Course Overview/Content:

Lesson 1: Master Page Setup

Topic 1A: Basing Masters on Existing Master Pages
Topic 1B: Applying Master Pages to Multiple Document Pages
Lesson 2: Advanced Styles

Topic 2A: Local Overrides in Styles
Topic 2B: Basing One Style on Another
Topic 2C: Importing and Redefining Styles
Lesson 3: Text Flow Control

Topic 3A: Inline Graphics
Topic 3B: Composition, Hyphenation, and Justification
Topic 3C: Tracking and Kerning
Topic 3D: Scaling Text
Lesson 4: Page Elements and Graphics

Topic 4A: Item Duplication
Topic 4B: File Formats
Topic 4C: Libraries
Lesson 5: Bézier Shapes

Topic 5A: Bézier Paths
Topic 5B: Compound Paths
Topic 5C: Clipping Paths
Topic 5D: Type Outlines
Lesson 6: Document Sectioning

Topic 6A: Sectioned Documents
Topic 6B: Sectioned Document Navigation
Lesson 7: Managing Long Documents

Topic 7A: Tables of Contents
Topic 7B: Indexing
Topic 7C: Creating a Book
Lesson 8: Print Settings

Topic 8A: Print Presets
Topic 8B: Color Separations Print Settings
Lesson 9: InDesign and XML

Topic 9A: Structuring InDesign Documents with XML
Topic 9B: Importing XML