InDesign Training Course in Bristol

Tender documents are usually long and can include a variety of different assets ranging from images, vector diagram’s, Excel & Word data, styles and colour’s. It is also important to retain consistency and accuracy across brand and layout which sometimes can prove difficult with data coming in from external sources such as Word. Fortunately we have MasterPages, Object Styles and Paragraph styles to help with the clunky stuff.

InDesign Layout

We looked at creating a document from InDesign’s New Document box and set up its dimensions as well as bleed, slug, columns & margin areas. We then saved the layout as a Preset for future use.

*This is the main object of long document handling, future use, the ability to reuse existing settings for any following documents. Why set something up twenty times when once will do?

InDesign Object Styles

InDesign Object Styles let us create numerous styles for both text and graphic frames and one of the beautiful things about them is that we can tweak strokes, fills, effects and include Paragraph styles ready to use in new documents.

InDesign Pages

The initial setup of the document using MasterPages. MasterPages are there to help you create accurate and consistent placement of repeating elements such as logos, line breaks and page numbering amongst others. You are not locked into one master page as you can create multiple masters in InDesign.

Many users don’t realise how easy it is to set up InDesign so that they can flow information into their documents and let the software ‘take the strain’.

InDesign Paragraph Styles

As with all long documents paragraph styles played a huge role in this InDesign Training Course. In this particular instance we used them to create a consistent and accurate look and feel to the text throughout the document, to link through to Frames and also generate Table of Contents.

InDesign & Microsoft Office

Another important part of working with long documents is Microsoft Office. Many of these documents have both text and spreadsheet contributions from different writers and team members most of whom use Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel to produce them. This means they can be quite clunky to work with because people work differently. No problem on this Advanced InDesign Course as the training includes the best practices for working with Office data including mapping style and importing options. This was one of the areas that was of interest because of the large amounts of different Office documents worked with. We looked at importing, mapping Microsoft Word styles to InDesign styles and also working with linked data in Microsoft Excel.

Adobe Training Courses in Bristol

In addition to Tailored InDesign Courses in Bristol we also run Introduction to InDesign Training and Intermediate InDesign Training as well as workshops.