Program 1: The Fundamentals & Formatting Type

1. QuickStart Tour (18 min)
Lesson 1: The New Document Window & Palettes
Lesson 2: Placing & Resizing an Image
Lesson 3: Placing Type & the Color Palette
Lesson 4: The Story Palette & Creating a New Page
Lesson 5: Basic Type Formatting
Lesson 6: Creating a Simple Table
Lesson 7: Adobe® Illustrator® Elements & PDFs

2. Customizing Adobe® InDesign® (43 min)
Lesson 1: General Preferences
Lesson 2: Text Preferences & Composition
Lesson 3: Units & Increments
Lesson 4: Grids, Guides & Pasteboard
Lesson 5: The Dictionary & Spell Check
Lesson 6: Display, File Handling & Updates
Lesson 7: The Adobe InDesign Workspace
Lesson 8: Saving Your Workspace
Lesson 9: The Control Palette
Lesson 10: Keyboard Shortcuts

3. Getting Started (22 min)
Lesson 1: Creating a New Document
Lesson 2: Opening a Document
Lesson 3: Error Messages
Lesson 4: Navigating Around the Page

4. Pages & Guides (24 min)
Lesson 1: Redefining Page Layout
Lesson 2: Guides
Lesson 3: Positioning Guides for Accuracy
Lesson 4: Coloring Guide Sets
Lesson 5: Adding, Deleting & Creating Guides

5. Creating Type (20 min)
Lesson 1: A Brief Intro to the Pages Palette
Lesson 2: Placing & Customizing Guides
Lesson 3: Positioning & Colorizing Elements
Lesson 4: Working with Type Frames
Lesson 5: Setting Up for Flowing Type

Program 2: Typography, Graphic Elements & Color

1. Typography & Layouts (49 min)
Lesson 1: Typography Options & Special Characters
Lesson 2: Inserting White Space
Lesson 3: Paragraph Spacing
Lesson 4: Paragraph Rules
Lesson 5: Hyphenation
Lesson 6: Justification
Lesson 7: Insert Break & Show Hidden Characters
Lesson 8: The Story Palette
Lesson 9: Baseline & Document Grids

2. Style Sheets (8 min)
Lesson 1: Create & Apply Paragraph Style Sheets
Lesson 2: Basic Style Sheet Editing
Lesson 3: Advanced Style Sheet Editing
Lesson 4: The Redefine Style Sheets Command
Lesson 5: Character Styles
Lesson 6: About First Baseline
Lesson 7: Nested Style Sheets

Program 3: Images, Transparency & Pages

1. Images & Links (70 min)
Lesson 1: Setting Up Layers for Images
Lesson 2: Placing Adobe® Photoshop® Images
Lesson 3: Drawing an Image Frame
Lesson 4: Scaling to Fit Cropped Area
Lesson 5: Color Management
Lesson 6: Scale, Position, Rotation & Skew
Lesson 7: Placing an Image
Lesson 8: Explore Display Performance Options
Lesson 9: Step & Repeat
Lesson 10: Working with Grayscale Images
Lesson 11: Feathered Transparency
Lesson 12: The Edit Original Command
Lesson 13: Using a Clipping Path
Lesson 14: The Links Palette
Lesson 15: Adobe® Illustrator® Files
Lesson 16: Flipping an Object

2. Inline Graphics & Text Wrap (12 min)
Lesson 1: Inline Graphics
Lesson 2: Text Wrap
Lesson 3: Selective Wrap

3. Text as Graphics (18 min)
Lesson 1: Graphic Elements with Type
Lesson 2: Gradient Swatches & Type
Lesson 3: Type on a Path
Lesson 4: Place an Image Inside Type

4. Transparency Effects (15 min)
Lesson 1: Transparency in Relation to Type
Lesson 2: Blend Modes for an Overprint Effect
Lesson 3: Selecting Color for Foreground
Lesson 4: The Feather Command
Lesson 5: The Drop Shadow Command

Program 4: Tables, Cross - Media & Print Output

1. Tables for Images & Type (45 min)
Lesson 1: Introduction to Creating Tables
Lesson 2: Load Paragraph Style
Lesson 3: Basic Table Layout & Editing
Lesson 4: Table Palette & Cell Options
Lesson 5: Table Setup Options
Lesson 6: Applying Headers & Footers
Lesson 7: Creating an Image Table
Lesson 8: Filling Your Image Table

2. Books & Table of Contents (23 min)
Lesson 1: Creating a Book
Lesson 2: Synchronization
Lesson 3: Output Options
Lesson 4: Creating a Table of Contents
Lesson 5: The Table of Contents Dialog Box
Lesson 6: Placing the Table of Contents

3. Text Editing & Checking (18 min)
Lesson 1: The Info Palette
Lesson 2: The Story Editor
Lesson 3: Spellchecker
Lesson 4: Find & Change Text & Formats

4. Cross-Media Export (49 min)
Lesson 1: Introducing XML Tags
Lesson 2: Creating Templates
Lesson 3: Mapping Tags & Flowing Content
Lesson 4: Export Package to Adobe® GoLive® CS
Lesson 5: The Adobe® PDF Format
Lesson 6: Hyperlinks
Lesson 7: Linking Graphics to Pages
Lesson 8: Embedding a Movie
Lesson 9: Creating a Rollover Button
Lesson 10: Exporting an Interactive File

5. Trapping & Output Preview (25 min)
Lesson 1: Trapping Basics
Lesson 2: Preset Options
Lesson 3: Overprinting a Stroke
Lesson 4: Trapping Presets
Lesson 5: The Transparency Flattener
Lesson 6: Separations Preview