Introduction
~ Welcome
~ Using the exercise files
~ New features in InDesign
~ InDesign workflow overview

Workspace
~ The Document window
~ Navigating your document
~ Rulers and measurements
~ Positioning panels
~ Saving workspaces
~ View options
~ Opening a new window

Getting to the Tools
~ The Tool panel
~ Keyboard shortcuts
~ Contextual menus
~ Customizing menus
~ Quick Apply

Creating a Document
~ New documents
~ Saving documents
~ Using Undo
~ Margin and column guides
~ Layout adjustment
~ Ruler guides
~ Libraries and snippets
~ Saving for CS or CS2
~ Converting QuarkXPress files

Managing Pages
~ Inserting, deleting, and moving pages
~ Sections, page numbers, and chapter numbers
~ Creating and applying master pages
~ Overriding master page items
~ Parent/Child master pages
~ Loading master pages

Text
~ Text frames
~ Typing and editing text
~ Filling with placeholder text
~ Special characters
~ Importing text
~ Threading text frames
~ Text frame options
~ Text on a path
~ The Story Editor
~ Spelling
~ Auto Correct
~ Finding and changing text
~ Text variables

Graphics
~ Importing graphics
~ Importing InDesign files
~ The Links panel
~ Embedding links
~ The Edit Original command
~ Frame fitting options
~ Transparency and Clipping Paths
~ Colorizing images
~ Turning image layers on and off
~ Copying and pasting from lllustrator

Formatting Objects
~ Selecting objects
~ vBasic strokes and fills
~ Advanced strokes
~ Transparency
~ Drop shadows
~ Feathering
~ Other effects
~ The Eyedropper tool
~ Finding and changing object formatting

Managing Objects
~ Stacking objects
~ Layers
~ Nesting objects
~ Editing frame and path shapes
~ Corner effects
~ Grouping and locking objects
~ Aligning and distributing
~ Text wrap
~ Editing text wrap
~ Anchored objects

Transforming Objects
~ Duplicating
~ Rotating
~ Scaling
~ Skewing
~ Mirroring
~ The Transform Again command

Character Formatting
~ Basic character styling
~ Advanced character styling
~ Changing case
~ OpenType features
~ Finding and changing text formatting
~ The Find Font command

Paragraph Formatting
~ Paragraph formatting
~ Drop caps
~ Hyphenation
~ Justification
~ TabsMB
~ The Align to Baseline Grid button
~ The Keep Options command
~ Paragraph rules
~ Automatic bullets
~ Numbering paragraphs

Styles
~ Character styles
~ Paragraph styles
~ Nested styles
~ Object styles
~ Load styles

Working with Tables
~ Creating a table
~ Adjusting rows and columns
~ Adding and deleting rows and columns
~ Formatting a table
~ Formatting cells
~ Headers and footers
~ Table styles
~ Placing graphics in cells
~ Working with Microsoft Word and Excel tables

Color
~ Creating color swatches
~ Unnamed colors
~ Tint swatches
~ Gradient swatches
~ Applying gradients
~ Overprinting
~ Separations preview

Exporting
~ Exporting a PDF
~ Snippets and INX
~ Exporting stories
~ Exporting a JPEG
~ Exporting an EPS

Printing
~ Preflight
~ Packaging for output
~ The Print dialog box