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Adobe InDesign CC Advanced 2 Days - Online
Key Course Details:
Level:
Advanced
Duration:
2
Days - 10am to 5pm
Price:
£395 + vat
Join the professionals in getting the best out of the world's leading desktop-publishing program. Our course will show you how to unlock the power of InDesign's advanced tools and help you to become more proficient and confident in laying out documents.
With our help, you will take your existing InDesign know-how and enhance it as you learn how to create interactive PDFs, eBooks, and more. We will show you how to work more efficiently by saving re-usable data and storing PDF presets. This course is a great way to step up to expert level by increasing the quality, consistency, and speed of your output.
Join the professionals in getting the best out of the world's leading desktop-publishing program. Our course will show you how to unlock the power of InDesign's advanced tools and help you to become more proficient and confident in laying out documents.
With our help, you will take your existing InDesign know-how and enhance it as you learn how to create interactive PDFs, eBooks, and more. We will show you how to work more efficiently by saving re-usable data and storing PDF presets. This course is a great way to step up to expert level by increasing the quality, consistency, and speed of your output.
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InDesign Advanced 2 Days
Course Details
This 2-day Advanced course will help to develop your skills as you explore the advanced features of Adobe InDesign CC. We will help you understand how this industry-leading program takes desktop publishing and design to a new level, and combines production power and creative freedom with tight integration with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat software.
You will already understand the basics of the program, and we will show you how to take that knowledge to the next level. We will cover advanced topics such as creating eBooks, generating indexes, and automating workflows.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Use advanced tools and palettes
- Create complex documents such as interactive PDFs and eBooks
- Re-use data via libraries and snippets
- Generate tables of contents and indexes
- Store PDF presets
This course is the perfect preparation if you plan to take the Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) exam.
Our goals are for you to understand the advanced features of InDesign and for you to become a confident power user.
Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites:
This course is intended for those who wish to enhance their existing knowledge of InDesign and who work as graphic designers, creative professionals, print professionals, publishers, pre-press professionals, or marketing communications professionals.
You will need basic experience in using InDesign. Ideally, you will have taken our Adobe InDesign CC Introduction 2 Day course.
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Full Course Outline
The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.
Managing Your Workspaces- Organising Your Panels
- Advanced Zooming and Navigation
- Advanced View Options
- Typographical preferences
- Advanced Character formatting options
- Advanced Paragraph formatting options
- Review of setting up Style Sheets
- Advanced Style Sheet Tips
- Nested Styles
- Using ‘Based on’, ‘Next Style’ and Quick Apply
- Review of setting up Parent Pages
- Parent & Child masters
- Overriding Parent Page items
- Using ‘Shuffle’ options
- Best practice with Parent pages
- Numbering and Section options
- Advanced Align options
- Using keyboard shortcuts for align and distribute
- Using the Gap tool
- Using Autofit for images
- Review of setting up Object Styles
- Setting up a Baseline Grid
- Creating custom frames and objects with the pen tool
- Review of Swatches – managing colours and gradients
- Creating Mixed Inks
- Using the Ink Manager
- Sharing Swatches between documents and with Photoshop and Illustrator
Managing Documents- Using Libraries and Snippets
- Creating Templates
- Creating and using Find/Change queries
- Creating a Table of Contents
- Using an InDesign ‘Book’ to collate documents
- Setting up Indexes
- Tables
- Setting up Tables
- Importing Excel & Word tables
- Creating Table and Cell styles
- Adding Hyperlinks, Buttons, Movies and Sounds
- Setting up Page Transitions
- Exporting an Interactive PDF
- Understanding what an e-book is
- Overview of preparing an existing file to become an e-book
- Overview of Export options
- Understanding InDesign preferences
- Changing document preferences
- Changing application preferences
- Using the Overprint Preview and the Separations Preview panel
- Defining the Transparency Flattener settings
- Using Preflight
- Understanding an RGB workflow
- Creating PDF presets
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Location Details
This course is provided as a remote online course with live training provided by our Adobe Certified Trainer.
Accessing the live online course anywhere is easy and all you will need is:
- Computer with the trial or full version of Adobe InDesign installed
- Separate screen or device for the shared video display
- Sound output via computer or headset
- Ideally a camera and microphone on the computer for remote contact
Our goal is for you to be able to create simple but professional documents that are ready to use for the web and for print.
It is important to note this is not a classroom based training.
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InDesign Advanced 2 Days - Upcoming Online Course Dates
23 Oct - 24 Oct Special Offer! £325 + vat 13 Nov - 14 Nov £395 + vat 27 Nov - 28 Nov £395 + vat 15 Jan - 16 Jan £395 + vat 29 Jan - 30 Jan £395 + vat 12 Mar - 13 Mar £395 + vat 26 Mar - 27 Mar £395 + vat 14 May - 15 May £395 + vat 04 Jun - 05 Jun £395 + vat 09 Jul - 10 Jul £395 + vat 23 Jul - 24 Jul £395 + vat -
Client Reviews
"Excellent, answered all of my questions, now familiar with all of the shortcuts and tools I hoped to be familiar with. A great introduction that will save me a lot of time."
Robyn Wyatt, NHS Christie, InDesign - 2 Day Bespoke
"Thanks for a very pleasant and educational 2 days. I think it was especially good because it was a small class which gave very individual training."
Nigel Hopwood, Jacob Jensen Design, InDesign - 2 Day Advanced
"Having no previous experience with InDesign, I felt that the course content was brilliant at introducing me to the program and building my confidence."
Abi Griffin, InDesign Introduction - 2 Days
"The course was thorough and well explained. The friendly approach made it all easy to understand and follow and all questions were dealt with straight away. Thank you!"
Jade Hindley, Inspire, Adobe InDesign - Two Day Introduction
"A thoroughly fun and enjoyable course delivered by an enthusiastic and knowledgeable tutor - can't wait to get back into the office environment and put it all into practice!"
Katrina Gillespie, Vinci Academy, InDesign - 2 Day Advanced
"I had no knowledge of InDesign prior to this training, now I feel like I can use it with confidence. The course has equipped me with new skills and knowledge that has made me genuinely excited to get back to work and use this software."
Sam Wright, Industrial Tomography Systems, InDesign Introduction - 2 Days
"Excellent course, excellent trainer. Learnt so much. We covered lots of things I had tried to do before with much difficulty. The training made things simple, I will be much more efficient now! "
Laura Millar, FCA, Adobe InDesign - Two Day Introduction
"The trainer had an extremely high level of knowledge about InDesign. He was very thorough in all his explanations and clear when providing any instructions. I feel very confident in the information I have been given and now feel able to go away and use InDesign. Excellent trainer."
Maria Juszczyszyn, Aldi, InDesign Introduction - Two Days
"I have studied a course with XChange Training before and it is extremely well organised, friendly staff and has a good work environment."
Victoria Hassett, ETM Group, InDesign - 1 Day Introduction
"The training was excellent, well paced and all of our questions were answered. There was time at the end to put into practice what had been learnt and ask further questions or queries. Prepared handouts were are clear and useful for future reference."
Kerry Willis, Paignton Zoo, InDesign - 1 Day Introduction
Next Dates:
23 Oct - 24 Oct Special Offer! £325 + vat
13 Nov - 14 Nov
27 Nov - 28 Nov
15 Jan - 16 Jan
29 Jan - 30 Jan
12 Mar - 13 Mar
Over 15 years of providing certified Adobe InDesign training courses UK wide
5/5 Stars
Excellent
03/10/2024
4/5 Stars
The course was very exhaustive and the teacher extremely knowledgeable and approachable, always ready to help and clarify doubts. it definitely improved my InDesign skill and I'll be able to use them at work straight away. Nothing to complain about it, it was a positive experience. Thank you very much
01/10/2024
5/5 Stars
The course was an excellent introduction to Indesign. There was lots of content. Donna, the instructor was really knowledgeable and approachable. I did struggle to keep up with some topics that were not familiar to me. But I have come away from the course with much more knowledge than I had before and with the course files and notes I have plenty to work with to move forward with Indesign.
01/10/2024
5/5 Stars
I really enjoyed this training, it was great to sit down and listen to a real person talking through each step from the beginning. The pace was great and I feel so much more confident with using inDesign now. It's not as scary as I thought it was.
01/10/2024
5/5 Stars
Great starter course! Very knowledgable instructor who was very helpful and open to questions.
30/09/2024
5/5 Stars
Course was very clear and well put together covering all the essentials for producing a document.
19/09/2024
5/5 Stars
Great introduction to InDesign
03/09/2024
5/5 Stars
Fantastic course which covered all of the essentials of InDesign. Phil was a great instructor and covered the content in great detail and was able to answer any questions we had.
22/08/2024
5/5 Stars
Phil is a great instructor, very enthusiastic, engaging and helpful. I thoroughly enjoyed the course and feel comfortable and excited to apply my new skills back at work.
22/08/2024
5/5 Stars
it is a very thorough and well thought out workshop, and the instructor was extremely kind and helpful, and she didn't mind having to go back and repeat herself if we didn't get it first time.
30/07/2024
5/5 Stars
The course gave an excellent intro into indesign and helped me unlearn lots of bad habits I've picked up from trying to teach myself! The desktop set up was great - really useful to be able to see the screen and follow along. Donna was really knowledgeable and gave clear, easy to follow instructions helping to demystify all the different tools and make them easier to use. The content covered feels like a great starting point to take forward for my current needs. I would definitely recommend the course to my colleagues/friends!
30/07/2024
5/5 Stars
Very clear in-depth explanations, answered any questions, very friendly environment. I had used InDesign slightly before this course but had no clue how to sett up documents from scratch, from doing this course I now believe I can create files from scratch and have learned extremely helpful tips and tricks with using InDesign. Donna was a great trainer, thank you!
30/07/2024
5/5 Stars
Donna was excellent and I feel more confident with the software, thank you for everything!
30/07/2024
5/5 Stars
Simon has made me more confident at approaching collateral for my company and I have learned from bad habits.
17/07/2024
4/5 Stars
I would not recommend grouping one person with another large group from another company. It becomes focused on their needs and requirements, and the other person often feels as if their requirements are not considered. There were many occassions where what was being talked about at considerable length was very specific to the other group and not me at all, but there was no time to explore areas that were relevant for me and my job.
11/07/2024
4/5 Stars
Great course! Wish it lasted longer to get even more information. A bit quick paced but I understand there was a lot to cover. Would recommend!
11/07/2024
5/5 Stars
I thought this was a really engaging way of learning the basics of indesign. The team were really fun, and professional. I feel like I'm ready to get started!
11/07/2024
5/5 Stars
Tutor had a great attitude, super helpful and engaging! For next time: I would have liked a short test e.g., replicate a magazine page layout in 20 mins.
11/07/2024
5/5 Stars
Great coverage of the material and details. Good opportunity to ask specific and weird questions! Feel prepared to give these skills a go in the office.
11/07/2024
5/5 Stars
Very useful and insightful for someone who has never worked in InDesign. Doug is an excellent instructor and made us fall in love with graphic design.
11/07/2024
4/5 Stars
Better than expected
25/06/2024
5/5 Stars
Very friendly and thorough approach.
25/06/2024
5/5 Stars
great knowledge and great vibes. Phil was super helpful
25/06/2024
5/5 Stars
Loved everything, I really learned a lot and enjoyed it so much. The instructor was Amazing, positive energy.
25/06/2024
5/5 Stars
I have thoroughly enjoyed the course, which was really educational. I have learnt a lot and will definitely be utilising my new found knowledge in my InDesign work going forwards. Donna was a fantastic instructor who made the remote experience really good despite teaching to a full in person class. She continually engaged with me and was able to assist whenever I got stuck seemlessly. I look forward to attending further courses in the future.
06/06/2024
5/5 Stars
great coverage of Indesign tools, general and specific ones
04/06/2024
5/5 Stars
I really enjoyed both days of the course. Phil was great and very patient with explaining all the functions and answering our questions. Literally the only comment I might have would be possibly adding some time for "assignments" like 20 minutes to put together a design based on explained functions.
21/05/2024
5/5 Stars
The course was packed with useful information and the instructor was just amazing.
21/05/2024
4/5 Stars
It was very informative and Phil was very enthusiastic about teaching us. The shortcuts were very useful
17/05/2024
5/5 Stars
Great session - very friendly, efficient. A nice learning atmosphere.
17/05/2024
5/5 Stars
Phil was amazing, very enthusiastic and very knowledgeable. Great training
17/05/2024
5/5 Stars
The course was great - Phil did a lovely job of meeting us where we all were skill level wise and made the session fun and interactive
17/05/2024
5/5 Stars
I am very pleased with the information I have received whilst on the course and as such I feel much more confident using InDesign going forward.
25/04/2024
5/5 Stars
Phil is great, very knowledgeable and no question is too much
25/04/2024
5/5 Stars
The course was well structured and easy to follow with a good pace. Phil is an excellent teacher who explained everything clearly, with good examples, and allowed us all enough time to trial and error things ourselves. He is very helpful and approachable.
25/04/2024
5/5 Stars
Excellent course the instructor worked to everyone's level of un understanding
25/04/2024
5/5 Stars
Phil was very postive, knowledgeable and enthusiastic. Nothing was too much trouble and I feel I've learnt so much that I can apply to my job role. Thanks so much Phil :)
25/04/2024
5/5 Stars
Alan was very informative, you could tell he had a very good knowledge of every aspect of InDesign. He was happy to go over anything we'd missed and reiterated how to do certain steps multiple times to help us remember the key info, even tailoring it for if we were using a mac / pc.
24/04/2024
5/5 Stars
As someone who was self taught prior to this course I did find alot of already known information in the course material, but having it delivered in a structured way opened up a more concrete understanding of how to create organised projects
24/04/2024
5/5 Stars
I had some IT gaps but the notes will help, a good course. I will keep practicing and come back for another if I need help. Thank you
24/04/2024
5/5 Stars
Really enjoyed the whole course - I've learnt so much. Thank You !
11/04/2024
5/5 Stars
Great insight into the interface and beginners knowledge of the software
09/04/2024
5/5 Stars
Very helpful and informative. The course was timed very well and was punctual. Doug was very patient and his timing was great! Props.
09/04/2024
5/5 Stars
I thought it was a great course and an excellent teacher !
09/04/2024
5/5 Stars
I found the course to be extremely helpful and I know feel confident that I can complete tasks on Indesign. The instructor explained things in a simple way and welcomed questions.
09/04/2024
Whats Included:
Live online remote tuition 
Certified hands-on training 
Small class size (max 4-8) 
6 months post course support 
Authorised Course Certificate
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the course times?
For all online courses the normal session timings are 10am to 5pm with an hour break for lunch. In addition to the hour lunch break there are also two fifteen minute coffee breaks mid morning and mid afternoon.
Daily times are:
09.45 - Registration
10.00 - Course start
13.00 - Lunch
14.00 - Afternoon starts
17.00 - Course ends
Do you offer discounts
or promotions?
We offer a range of regular discounts available for self funding individuals, charities and education along with period special offers. See our promotions page for full details.
What is provided with this course?
For this online course you will need to have your computer ready with the relevant software (trial or full) and our live instructor will guide you through the skills remotely during the session. Files for use in the training will be made available in advance for download. After the course you will receive the authorised Certificate and 6 months direct post course support.
Does this course give
a qualification?
Although this course does not provide an actual qualification each delegate is provided with an official Certificate for completion of the course level.
Can you invoice my company?
In short yes we can provide 30 day invoice terms to any UK Limited company with the provision of your official purchase order and/or completing the invoice request for your booking online.
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