InDesign Insider Training: Beyond the Essentials (2013) [repost]

In this course David Blatner builds on his Essential Training series, bringing his knowledge of and passion for Adobe InDesign to lessons that show you how to harness its power and functionality. This installment covers a wide range of advanced topics from interface customization to cutting-edge layout and text-formatting techniques. Learn how to set key application and document preferences, format long documents, match swatches, use GREP styles, and much more.

Introduction 2m 47s
Welcome 55s
What you should know before watching this course 45s
Using the exercise files 1m 7s

1. Managing Your Document Window 25m 17s
Managing more than one document window 5m 1s
Positioning your panels 5m 23s
Setting up Mini Bridge 3m 31s
Saving a workspace 3m 12s
Displaying a new window or split screen 5m 16s
Rotating pages and spreads 2m 54s

2. Setting Up InDesign and Your New Document 21m 48s
Setting application and document preferences 8m 54s
Learning and editing keyboard shortcuts 9m 23s
Customizing InDesign menus 3m 31s

3. Layout Techniques 33m 29s
Parent/child master pages 6m 26s
Starting a document on a left page 4m 0s
Adding alternate layouts 7m 34s
Saving objects in libraries 8m 46s
Exporting and importing page snippets 6m 43s

4. Advanced Text and Typography 55m 37s
Filling with placeholder text 5m 35s
Tracking text changes 9m 12s
Choosing other languages 5m 45s
Adjusting text hyphenation and justification 9m 5s
Adding hanging punctuation with Optical Margin Alignment 5m 40s
Controlling orphans and widows with Keep Options 5m 41s
Aligning to a baseline grid 9m 1s
Setting vertical justification and first baseline position 5m 38s

5. Paragraph and Character Styles 26m 45s
Applying styles automatically with nested and line styles 7m 39s
The basics of GREP styles 5m 24s
Using Break Link to Style 3m 5s
Exploring style groups 10m 37s

6. Long-Document Text Techniques 33m 44s
Including footnotes 6m 21s
Working with cross-references 7m 41s
Indexing a document 12m 58s
Exploring conditional text 6m 44s

7. Advanced Graphic Techniques 32m 6s
Importing InDesign files 4m 26s
Advanced Links panel features 8m 54s
Embedding links 3m 31s
Adding live and static captions 8m 1s
Turning image layers on and off 7m 14s

8. Paths 25m 35s
Using advanced strokes 9m 6s
Using Pathfinder and compound paths 8m 47s
Using InDesign and Illustrator together 7m 42s

9. Advanced Layout 35m 25s
Power scaling techniques 12m 12s
Making grids 8m 2s
Power spacing 3m 4s
Making objects nonprinting 4m 28s
Default graphics and text frame styles 7m 39s

10. Managing Swatches and Inks 20m 48s
Building tint swatches 4m 5s
Mixed ink colors 7m 35s
Taking advantage of ink aliasing 5m 15s
Checking color with Separations Preview 3m 53s

Conclusion 1m 35s
Going ever deeper with InDesign 1m 35s