InDesign: Working with Tables

Name: InDesign: Working with Tables
Author: Patti Scully-Lane

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In this lesson, you are going to learn how to save an InDesign file as a template file. I have the document hiking summer 2021 opened. So this was a newsletter that I created about hiking in the summer of 2021. Well, I'm ready to create my newsletter for the fall of 2021. A lot of times, what people will do is they will open up their last newsletter and they'll start to make changes. They'll start to take things out and swap out photos and retype some of the content. And what happens every once in a while is they've hit the File Save button before doing a Save As, and what that does is that ruins the summer 2021 file. And so a better way to work in InDesign is to create template files, especially if you are going to be using the same design week after week or month after month. What I have here is template start. You can find the template start document in the lesson files folder in the chapter one folder. With this document, I have already taken out most of the content you can see up at the top I have my logo and here's the issue date. And then we have the, in this issue information. And I also have right here, a placeholder for a graphic. Now, in order to make those placeholders for my graphic stand out on the page. I have changed the color of the background of these placeholders by going up to the top. And I have my advanced workspace open, which is why I have my control panel up across the top. If you want your panels to look like mine do, you can go to the Window menu to Workspace and switch it over to the Advanced Workspace. And that way your panels will be where mine are. And you'll be able to see up at the top, in the middle of our control panel, where we can go to change the background color. I have the black swatch selected, and I have a tint of 30% for swatch. And so I've done that. If I scroll down, and I can just scroll over a little bit. I can see other placeholders where they are. And I also have my article titles and where I want my pull quotes and where I might want a sidebar. So you can see how this is all laid out. And in some cases I do have some placeholder text, but I don't have a lot of that throughout the document. Most of what I have are blank placeholders. So once you have your shell of a document all set and ready, what you want to do is go to the File menu to do a Save As, so File, Save As. And I'm just gonna save it right into the lesson files folder in my chapter one folder. But down here at the bottom, I'm going to do a Save As Type, and I'm gonna click on that drop down and change it to an InDesign 2021 template. So I'm gonna use an InDesign 2021 template. And as you can see, it has an indt extension at the end of it. So InDesign template, and I'm just gonna click on the Save button and you can see now that InDesign has changed the name up here in the top left in my tab to template start.indt. And so that way I will be able to create documents from this template and not worry about hitting that Save button before I do a Save As, and potentially lose content from another document. So in this lesson, you learned how to save an InDesign file as a template file.

Advanced Provider : Patti Scully-Lane 5 Lessons · 28m in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese

Course Description

In these lessons, you will work with Templates, as well as learn how to save InDesign files as templates and create new documents from those templates. You will also make changes to templates and learn about how Adobe Fonts are used with templates.

What You'll Learn

Save an InDesign file as a template
Create a new document based on a template
Make changes to a template file
Load fonts from Adobe Fonts for use with templates
Apply advanced layers techniques in InDesign

Key Takeaways

The course covers working with and creating templates in Adobe InDesign.
Learners save InDesign files as templates and create new documents from those templates.
The course explains how to make changes to existing template files.
Adobe Fonts are used with templates, and the course shows how to load them.
The course covers understanding layers as an advanced technique.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this InDesign course cover?

It covers working with templates, including saving InDesign files as templates, creating new documents from templates, making changes to template files, loading fonts from Adobe Fonts, and understanding layers.

What skills will I gain from this course?

You will gain skills in Adobe InDesign, document formatting, template toolkits, templates, and typesetting, and the course relates to Adobe InDesign Certification.

What are the learning objectives of this course?

The objectives are to work with and create templates and to learn advanced layers techniques.

What lessons are included in this course?

The lessons are Saving an InDesign File as a Template, Creating a New Document Based on a Template, Making Changes to a Template File, Loading Fonts from Adobe Fonts, and Understanding Layers.