Indd

A Quick Tour of
Adobe InDesign

This interactive demonstration of Adobe
InDesign provides an overview of key features of the program. It should take you approximately 30 minutes to complete.

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A Quick Tour of Adobe InDesign

Getting started
You’ll start the tour by opening a partially completed document. You’ll add the finishing touches to this 6-page article on Mexican folk art written for an imaginary travel magazine.
Before you start Adobe InDesign, you should restore the default preferences for InDesign if you have not already done so in this session. Restoring default preferences ensures that the tools and palettes function exactly as described in this lesson. After you learn how to use
InDesign, this step is no longer necessary.
1 Delete or deactivate the InDesign Defaults file and the InDesign SavedData file, following the procedure in “Restoring default preferences” on page 4.
2 Start Adobe InDesign.
3 Choose File > Open, and locate the ID_00 folder in the Lessons folder you copied from the InDesign Classroom in a Book CD to your hard disk:
4 In the ID_00 folder, double-click ID_01.indd.
Note: In Windows, your extensions may be hidden. If this is so, the file appears as ID_01 (not
ID_01.indd) in the Open a File dialog box.

If an alert message appears that asks which dictionary file you want to use, click No
(Windows) or Document (Mac OS).
5 Choose File > Save As, and rename the file Tour in the ID_00 folder. If someone else has created this file, choose Yes to replace it.

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Classroom in a Book

Viewing the document
The first spread (pages 2 and 3) appears on your screen. You’ll now look at the rest of the
6-page article using several navigation methods. First, you’ll use the Navigator palette, which is useful for changing the view magnification. As in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe
Photoshop, palettes are often grouped with other palettes. However, you can move, separate, and combine these palettes any way you like.
1 Choose View > Fit Spread in