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1. Create the document

05 Creating Research Documents Phase 1: Create Doc + Add Text

Follow the instructions to create a document from a template. Save the new file to the project...

Updated 1 year ago by Maria Meschi

Views: Normal vs. Preview

03 Basic Competence in InDesign Views and Layout Aids

Preview mode in Adobe InDesign displays a document as it will appear after exporting, hiding non-...

Updated 1 year ago by Maria Meschi

Parent Pages

03 Basic Competence in InDesign Views and Layout Aids

What's a parent page? A parent page is like a background that you can quickly apply to many page...

Updated 1 year ago by Maria Meschi

Graphics + Frames

03 Basic Competence in InDesign Adding and Managing Images

Insert a graphic Choose File > Place to place a graphic (or multiple graphics) in your documen...

Updated 1 year ago by Maria Meschi

General rules for editing text

03 Basic Competence in InDesign Working with Text

About the template text strategy Placeholder text or text that should be reviewed is displayed...

Updated 1 year ago by Maria Meschi

FAQs

01 Hello, Adobe InDesign

Opening a document I opened a document, and it told me there are “missing links.” What’s that ...

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Linked and Embedded Images

03 Basic Competence in InDesign Adding and Managing Images

When you place an image, you see a version of the file in the layout so that you can view and pos...

Updated 1 year ago by Maria Meschi

Exporting Files

03 Basic Competence in InDesign Saving, Printing, and Exporting Projects

Export an open document to PDF for printing Choose File > Export. Specify a name an...

Updated 1 year ago by Maria Meschi

Edit PDF view settings

03 Basic Competence in InDesign Saving, Printing, and Exporting Projects

Most DORIS documents are designed to be viewed as a spread: two portrait pages next to each other...

Updated 1 year ago by Maria Meschi

Correcting Overset Text

03 Basic Competence in InDesign Working with Text

What is overset text? Overset text will vanish from your content if it can't fit into a certain ...

Updated 1 year ago by Maria Meschi

Group or Ungroup Objects

03 Basic Competence in InDesign Working with Objects

You can combine several objects into a group to treat them as a single unit. You can then move or...

Updated 1 year ago by Maria Meschi

Align or Distribute Objects

03 Basic Competence in InDesign Working with Objects

You use the Align panel (Window > Object & Layout > Align) to align or distribute objects horizon...

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Paragraph Spacing

03 Basic Competence in InDesign Working with Text

Several terms describe space between and around text (leading, kerning, and tracking). The DORIS ...

Updated 1 year ago by Maria Meschi

Lock + Unlock Objects

03 Basic Competence in InDesign Working with Objects

You can use the Lock command to specify that you don’t want certain objects to move in your docum...

Updated 1 year ago by Maria Meschi

Access to InDesign, Libraries, and Assets

02 Getting Started with InDesign

Before you can use InDesign, you need to get added to the DORIS Adobe team, then download the app...

Updated 1 year ago by Morgan Dosterglick

Tutorials

02 Getting Started with InDesign

If you are opening InDesign for the first time or consider yourself an absolute beginner, these s...

Updated 1 year ago by Maria Meschi

Setting Up Your Workspace

02 Getting Started with InDesign

To create and manage documents in InDesign (and other Adobe Creative Cloud applications), you can...

Updated 1 year ago by Maria Meschi

Create a document from a template

02 Getting Started with InDesign

Directions About InDesign Templates Adobe InDesign template files are pre-designed layouts.  ...

Updated 1 year ago by Maria Meschi

Styles

01 Hello, Adobe InDesign DORIS InDesign Standards

InDesign styles help maintain consistency throughout and across documents. Character Styles and ...

Updated 1 year ago by Maria Meschi

Anatomy of a DORIS Document

01 Hello, Adobe InDesign DORIS InDesign Standards

Understanding the document grid A grid in graphic design is a foundational layout tool that orga...

Updated 1 year ago by Maria Meschi