ICT

• InDesign defaults to


  picas as the unit of measurement
• Changing unit of measurement in InDesign

  1. Go to Edit menu

  2. Choose Preferences

  3. Select Units & Increments

  4. Change Horizontal and Vertical pulldown menus to preference
• Starting a new document in InDesign

  1. Go to File menu

  2. Choose New

  3. Select Document

  4. Select page size from pulldown menu or enter custom dimensions

  5. Set Orientation

  6. Set Number of Pages

  7. Adjust Facing Pages and Columns settings

  8. Click OK
• Adjusting document settings after initial setup

  1. Select/deselect Facing Pages in Document Setup

  2. Adjust margins and columns in Margins and Columns
• Text frames


  Containers for all text in InDesign, can be moved, resized, and threaded to other frames
• Creating a new text frame

  1. Select Type Tool

  2. Click and drag to create frame

  3. Begin typing
• Moving a text frame

  1. Select frame with Pointer Tool

  2. Click and drag to new position
• Resizing a text frame

  1. Select frame with Pointer Tool

  2. Drag frame handles to new size
• Red plus sign in text frame

  Indicates too much text to fit in frame
• Inserting text in InDesign

  1. Go to File menu

  2. Select Place

  3. Navigate to document and click Open

  4. Click in document to place text

  5. Hold Shift to autoflow text

  6. Hold Alt to autoflow without creating new pages

  7. Click and drag to designate text block size
• Threading text frames


  Connecting text frames so text flows between them
• Threading text frames


  1. Create text frames with Type Tool

  2. Click out port of first frame

  3. Click in next frame to connect
• Formatting text in InDesign

  Similar to Word, use Text Tool Option Palette, Type menu, or Character Panel
• Styles in InDesign


  Paragraph styles define appearance of text elements, character styles define formatting of individual characters
• Creating paragraph styles


  1. Go to Window menu

  2. Select Styles

  3. Select Paragraph Styles

  4. Click new style icon

  5. Double-click new style

  6. Name style and set formatting options

  7. Click OK
• Word styles carry over when placing text in InDesign and can be edited as paragraph styles
• Creating character styles


  Follow same steps as paragraph styles but in Character Styles panel