Adobe InDesign Intermediate: Advanced Document Features

Name: Adobe InDesign Intermediate: Advanced Document Features
Author: Mike Collins

Learn how to define and apply pagination options, type special characters, and create a table of contents for your layout

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Hello, my name is Mike Collins. In this lesson you will learn how to use pagination and document order in Adobe InDesign. Let's open the InDesign application and create a new document that is letter size in the 8.11-inch format. We're going to create this with 10 pages, make sure the facing pages is selected, and everything else looks good. Let's look ahead and create it. Now we'll look at how to add page numbers and make sure they're correctly linked to our document so each page is automatically updated even if I add, delete, or modify pages throughout the book. So, with our document open, now we need to make sure our page's layout is open so we can go to the page's number here as we can see on the right or if it wasn't open we can select window and pages. The dialog box will open and we can see now we have 10 pages in six spreads. We can open this and pull it down to where we like to make sure we can see all of the pages. With our document open, we can see now that we have the none page on top and the apparent page with a left and a right side for facing pages also displayed. The first page of our document will be the cover so we're not going to give this one a page number, but we will start with the first left side page of the first set of facing pages which is page two. Let's double click on the left side page and it's going to open in our layout. What we want to do now is go to the A parent and apply those properties to the A parent page. We'll double click on that, it opens up. Now we're going to create the page numbers on the bottom left of the first page on the left and on the bottom right of the second page on the right. So with the type tool selected, go ahead and create a text frame where we like. Now go to type and insert special character and markers and then choose current page number and our page number will appear. In this case it appears as an A. We'll zoom in so we can see it easier. Now we can select our font, size and style. Let's go ahead and create this as area. I'll choose 14 points and we'll make it bold. Now we'll move and actually what I like to do when I create page numbers on the left is I left justify them and on the right I'll right justify them. Let's move this page number where we want, place it here. Now I'm going to go ahead and copy it and paste it onto the other side. We'll zoom out so we can see what we're doing a little bit easier. Move our page over and move our new page number for the right over here. We could use outlines or guides we could use, pull them from the top or the sides but in this case I know they look pretty well aligned. What I'm going to do is I'm going to right justify this particular page number on the right. This will help in keeping things aligned on each page. Now if we take a look at our pages we'll see they all have the letter A in the upper corner which shows that they're all using the properties of the A parent page and you can always change a page so it does not have the A parent link by pulling the none page on top of it. In this case we'll pull it over to the first page and as you can see the A disappears meaning it no longer has the properties of the A parent page. Since I want the first single page to be the cover of my book I didn't want it to have a page number so I pulled none onto it to remove the page number's link and as we said the letter A that was linked to it before is now gone and it's become essentially a blank page without any properties. Now let's double click on any page and we'll see what happened. Now the properties have been applied we have pages two and three, pages four and five, six and seven, eight and nine and ten for the end of our book. Try that we want all the pages to have page numbers and we can also modify them as we want to. For example if some pages of our document or book were darker and the black text would not show up as well on that particular background you could modify them. Now we could go up to our A parent page we could pull down this line which we have to give us enough space we could right click on it and create a new parent. We can give it a prefix in this case we'll just call it B we can choose if it how many pages it has what size it is the orientation but in this case everything looks good so we'll go ahead and we can base it on the A parent or none and give it its own properties. We'll select okay and now we have two parent pages A parent and B parent and you could specify how many of these new parent pages you want or create a C parent or D as many as you need. We can go into any of these now and we can modify the properties so they are unique to what you want. Now if we want to apply the properties of the B parent page and not have the A parent page apply we can simply drag it down and place it on wherever we like on whichever page we want to change. Now you can see the property the letter is changed from an A to a B we'll go ahead and do it on another one as well and this now shows you that this particular page no longer has the A parent properties attached to it but now has the B parent properties we can do the same thing with a C parent page. We can verify that the alignment is correct we can verify the colors or the fonts are correct or make any change we'd like to. We can quickly see which pages are associated to which parent page is just by looking at which parent page letter shows up on the top and this is very helpful in keeping our document order organized. Now you've learned how to use pagination and document order in Adobe InDesign. Stay tuned for the next lesson where I will show you how to use synchronize book attributes in Adobe InDesign. Thanks for watching.

Intermediate Provider : Mike Collins 4 Lessons · 28m in English

Course Description

Learning how to create a consistent look throughout your InDesign document is important for your audience to navigate through it. But it’s not enough just for your look to be consistent—it should also be uniquely yours. InDesign gives you many different ways you can set pagination throughout your document layout, and in this course, you will learn how to use a master page to control these options.

In these lessons on Adobe InDesign, we’ll discuss how to use pages to create pagination options. You’ll also learn how to create and use special characters for your document and how to make a table of contents for your page layout. We will also explore how to use master and parent pages to create custom page number options to give your document exactly the look you want. By the end of this course, you will be able to modify text and create a table of contents with an index.

What You'll Learn

Create and modify special characters within an InDesign document
Modify pagination throughout your document layout
Use master and parent pages to control custom page number options
Build a table of contents, index, and cross references for your page layout
Synchronize book attributes across your document

Key Takeaways

Creating a consistent look helps your audience navigate through an InDesign document.
InDesign offers many different ways to set pagination throughout a document layout.
Master and parent pages can be used to create custom page number options for your document.
By the end of the course you will be able to modify text and create a table of contents with an index.
Keeping things organized with a table of contents and index offers benefits for navigating your document.

Frequently Asked Questions

What will I be able to do by the end of this course?

By the end of the course you will be able to modify text and create a table of contents with an index.

What topics does this course cover?

It covers using pages to create pagination options, creating and using special characters, making a table of contents for your page layout, and using master and parent pages to create custom page number options. Lessons include Understanding Pagination and Text Variables; Synchronizing Book Attributes; and Creating the Table of Contents, Index, and Cross References (Parts 1 and 2).

What skills will I gain from this course?

You will develop skills in character designs, content pages, and pagination.

What are the learning objectives of this course?

To understand how to create and modify special characters, explain how to modify pagination, and describe the benefits of keeping things organized with a table of contents and index.