1. Complete a project

Required Tools

• Threading text frames
• Autoflow (3 kinds, when to use each)
• Automatic page numbers
• Spell-check
• Find/change
• Drop caps
• Split/span columns
• Creating columns without guides
• Tracking/kerning/leading
• Text wrap with “alpha channel”
• Importing from word using same style names

• Clipping masks
• Autofit

• Arrow key shortcuts for the polygon tool
• Advanced stroke panel options like custom dashed lines, corners, endpoints, etc.

• Master pages
• Overriding master page items
• Layers

• Alt, or alt-shift for easy duplicate and keep in line
• Align, distribute, group
• Understand the different kinds of frames in InDesign
• Effects panel
• Object styles
• Saving for older versions of InDesign
• Tables of Contents