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Module 05
Working with Tables: To Edit an Object Style:
■■ Double-click the style name in the Object Styles Panel
Tables can help you work with rows, column, and cells. You and then change the specifications of the object. This will
can create tables within InDesign, or you can place Excel
update any objects in the document that use this style.
spreadsheets or Word documents containing tables, and they
■■ You can also choose an object, and choose in the Object
are treated as InDesign tables.
Style Panel menu > Break Link to Object Style. This means
To Create a Table: that particular object will not change if you update the style
■■ Create a Text frame. later on.
■■ Choose Table menu > Insert Table.
To copy Object Styles to another document, choose Load Styles
■■ Choose a number of rows and columns and click Ok. from the Object Styles Panel menu and browse to the document
whose styles you wish to copy.
You can change the thickness of borders using
the Stroke panel. Nested Styles:
Character Styles can be nested into the description for a
paragraph style to automate formatting. For example, you might
have a paragraph style to create a drop cap and format the
The Table menu includes options for cells, paragraph, and then a nested style could automatically apply a
borders, and spacing of text and other options. character style to change the color and font of the drop cap.

To Create a Nested Style:

■■ Create the character style.
Dynamic Spell Checking: ■■ Create the paragraph style.
■■ Double-click the paragraph style name in the Paragraph
Dynamic Spell Checking will underline words in red that are
suspect misspellings, and you can then right-click on the word Style Panel.
to see suggested options. ■■ Choose the Drop Cap and Nested Styles category.
■■ Click Add Character Style, and choose the character style
Right click on text and choose Dynamic Spell Checking,
you made earlier.
OR ■■ Specify a range. You could apply the character style to a
Choose Edit > Dynamic Spell Checking. variety of ranges, such as one character, several words, lines,
etc.
Drag and Drop Text:
This feature allows you to drag highlighted text to move or copy
Button Tool:
text or create new text frames quickly. The feature is turned off You can use the button tool to create buttons used in PDF files.
in Preferences by default. Buttons can function within Adobe Acrobat Reader to help users
■■ Choose Edit > Preferences. navigate through a document with forward, backward, and
■■ Click on the Text category, and check off Enable in Layout home buttons, or to perform other tasks.
View (Dragging and Dropping of Text). ■■ Create button: Select the Button tool (Window
Now you can select text, and then drag to move the highlighted menu>Interactive>Buttons and Forms)
text. ■■ Go to the Master page (so that the navigation button is
Hold Ctrl/Cmd+Alt while dragging to copy the text and create a available on all pages of the document.) You can also create
new text frame. buttons on individual pages.
■■ Click Behaviors to specify what the button will do.

Object Styles: To create Rollover effects on your button, open the States Panel
in the Window menu.
An object style is a named and saved combination of object-level
formatting. It can include any combination of fill, stroke, stroke
and corner effects, transparency, drop shadows, feathering,
Stroke Styles:
paragraph styles, text frame options, baseline options for text Create your own custom Stroke types, such as a stroke with five
frames, story options, text wrap, and anchored object settings. lines, or a custom dot pattern, and save them as Stroke Styles to
use over and over again on various objects.
To Create and Use an Object Style:
■■ Select an object whose settings you wish to save, and then ■■ While in the Selection tool, go to the Control Panel menu
click the New Style button at the bottom of the Object and choose Stroke Styles.
Styles Panel. ■■ Choose New, specify your settings and click OK.
■■ To use the style, select an object and then click on the style ■■ Use the settings by selecting an object and going to the
name. Stroke Type list in the Control Panel.

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Transform Again:
■■ Ctrl Alt 3 - Transform Again
■■ Ctrl Alt 4 - Transform Sequence Again

Module 06
Anchored Objects: Working with Layers:
When you place an insertion point in text with the type tool and Layers can help you hide, lock, or select objects quickly. Your
then paste an object or frame into place, that object becomes work is on one layer by default, but you can use the Layers Panel
an anchored object. You can position that object within or to create more layers.
overlapping or outside the text frame. The object then retains ■■ Open the Layers Panel from the Window menu.
its relationship to the text and travels with it if the text moves
■■ Click the eyeball icon to hide or show a layer.
for any reason. Anchored objects create ongoing relationships to
■■ Click just to the right of the eyeball to lock or unlock a layer.
the text and travels with it if the text moves for any reason.
■■ Click the New Layer button at the bottom of the Layers
To Create an Anchored Object: Panel to create new layers.
■■ Copy an object with the Selection tool ■■ Double-click layers to name them or change the color
■■ Paste with the Type tool inserted into text associated with each layer.
■■ Select the object with the Selection tool, and choose Object ■■ Alt-click the layer to automatically select all the objects on
> Anchored Object > Options. that layer (per spread).

To Resize an Anchored Object:

■■ Deselect Prevent Manual Repositioning option in the Data Merge:
Anchored Objects dialog box. To create form letters, envelopes, or mailing labels, you merge a
■■ Use the Selection to select the object and drag the side or data source file with a target InDesign document.
corner handle. ■■ Open the Data Merge Panel from the Window > Utilities >
Data Merge.
Table of Contents: ■■ Specify a Data Source.
■■ Insert Fields.
To create a table of contents automatically, you must have
■■ Click Create Merged Document button at the bottom of the
formatted your text with Styles. If you are using Styles, you can
create lists from all the paragraphs formatted with a particular Data Merge Panel.
style, with page numbers automatically inserted.

To Create a Table of Contents:

■■ Choose Type menu > Table of Contents Styles.
■■ Choose which Styles should be included in the list, and
choose Styles for formatting.

Book:
To Create a Book:
■■ Choose File > New > Book.
■■ Specify a name for the book file (.indb) and location.
■■ Click the Add button at the bottom of the book Panel and select your InDesign documents for each chapter of the book.
■■ Drag the chapters into the correct order.
■■ Designate one chapter as the style source.
■■ Select chapters and click Synchronize to load Swatches and Styles from the style source chapter into all of the selected documents.

Footnotes:
To Create a Footnote:
■■ Place the insertion point where you want the footnote reference number to appear.
■■ Choose Type > Insert Footnote.
■■ Type the footnote text.
■■ Choose Type > Document Footnote Options to change the footnote numbering or layout.

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