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InDesign Tips and Tricks

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We all know InDesign is a treasure chest of production power, but are you truly aware of its hidden gems? In this session, Erica Gamet shares her favorite InDesign tips and tricks to streamline your workflow, elevate your designs, and give you a whole new perspective on what’s possible. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned pro, you’ll walk away with a toolkit full of time-saving techniques to boost your productivity, simple solutions for common problems, and tips for staying organized.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Unlock the power of core features to work smarter, not harder
  • Troubleshoot file issues before they become a problem
  • Make the most of little-known features and tools that will revolutionize your workflow
  • Streamline your design process with timesaving techniques

InDesign Layers: Your Secret Weapon

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In this session, we’ll dive into the hidden treasures of InDesign’s layers, where creativity meets organization. With this often-underused tool, we’ll discover how layers simplify your workflow by keeping content organized and harmonious. Layers offer unparalleled flexibility, from safeguarding headers and footers to watermarking, guides, and in-house printing. Get ready to uncover the hidden potential of InDesign’s layers and supercharge your design game!

Topics Include:

  • Arranging multiple grids and guides on different layers for flexibility
  • Protecting key elements on locked layers
  • Adding notes and instructions on a non-printing layer
  • Creating special-use layers for your workflow

Accessible Forms and Tables

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Adobe InDesign is a powerhouse for creating accessible forms and tables, but it can be tricky to get started without some key foundations. Join Dax Castro for a walk through of the basics of creating accessible tables and PDFs with InDesign.

You’ll learn:

  • How and why to define tags when exporting to PDF
  • How and why to set tag order for exported PDF files
  • Why alt text is important and how to include it
  • How and why to specify reading order
  • When to artifact or describe an object

Table It Up: Mastering Tables in InDesign with Style and Precision

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Ready to turn ordinary data into extraordinary—and functional—tables in InDesign? In this dynamic session Laurie Ruhlin will give you the keys for creating, formatting, and editing tables with ease! Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned designer, this workshop will improve your skills and transform the way you present information.

In addition to crafting clean, functional tabular data and jazzing up tables with custom styles, borders, and colors, you’ll learn to:

  • Adjust table dimensions, rows, and columns for a perfect fit
  • Create table and cell styles to ensure consistency across your layouts
  • Use keyboard shortcuts and pro tricks to save time and keep tables consistent
  • Format those pesky table borders and grid lines, as well as headers and footers
  • Work with complex tables that thread through multiple pages

Accessibility in InDesign and Acrobat

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InDesign and Acrobat are powerful tools for creating accessible documents—but to use them successfully, it’s crucial to understand a few basics first. We’ll dive into key features, best practices, and techniques for ensuring your PDFs are universally accessible and compliant with the latest standards.

Key Takeaways:

  • Understanding the structural elements of accessible PDFs
  • Techniques for creating accessible PDFs from various document formats
  • Tools and resources for testing and verifying PDF accessibility

Transformative InDesign: Little Things Make a Big Difference!

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Take your production skills to the next level with these small but mighty tips for transforming objects, frames, and lines in InDesign. We’ll explore how to use a reference point (a.k.a. the “waffle pocket’) to precisely size and position frames on a page. Get ready to take control of your layouts and transform the way you work in InDesign!

Topics include:

  • Use object styles to automate repetitive object formatting and placement
  • Align and distribute objects like a pro
  • Use the Control panel to fine-tune object placement, rotation, flipping, scaling, and spacing.
  • Pro tips for transforming grouped objects

Simplify, Stylize, and Supercharge with InDesign’s Next, Nested, and GREP Styles

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Julie Shaffer is your leader on a transformative journey into the heart of InDesign’s styling capabilities. This session will delve deep into paragraph styles, specifically exploring Next Style, Nested Styles, and GREP Styles, the unsung heroes of text layout efficiency. And, when you add object style capabilities, you’ll see how these powerful features can simplify your workflow, add flair to your designs, and easily tackle complex formatting tasks.

You’ll learn:

  • How to take styles to the next level
  • Clever ways to boost your efficiency
  • Why styles RULE!

    • Sneak Peek:
    How to Quickly Format InDesign Layouts Using Styles

So You Think You Know InDesign

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You may have been using InDesign for years (or decades!), but there may still be a surprising number of things you don’t even know you don’t know—y’know? Join Prescott Perez-Fox for a fun eye-opening journey that will make you see a familiar app in a whole new way.

Topics Include:

  • Best practices in InDesign
  • Hidden InDesign features you likely never knew existed
  • Tips and techniques to surprise even seasoned pros

The Ultimate 5-Star Workflow: Making the Most of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Express, and Firefly

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Welcome to the future of creative workflows! In this session, you’ll learn how to harness the full power of five incredible Adobe tools—Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Adobe Express, and Firefly—so you can work faster, smarter, and more creatively than ever before. It’s the dream team of Adobe apps, working together in perfect harmony to make your design process seamless, efficient, and, even a little magical. We’ll explore how each app fits into your workflow, how to transfer assets smoothly between them, and how to maximize the unique strengths of each tool. You’ll learn how to integrate them all into one smooth, multi-tool operation.

Topics include:

  • Discover how to seamlessly pass assets between Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign for a smooth design flow
  • Learn to use Adobe Express to quickly generate social media-ready assets that complement your larger projects
  • Tap into Firefly’s AI magic to accelerate your creative process, from image generation to style enhancements
  • Build a truly flexible, cross-app workflow that adapts to any project, big or small
  • Unlock the power of integrating AI with traditional tools for a dynamic, next-level creative process

InDesign—The “Right” Way

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You get there in the end, but is it always in the most efficient way? Under the hood, would your InDesign documents stand up to scrutiny? If there are serious edits to be made, would your document fall down like a house of cards? This session looks at ways to make InDesign’s document infrastructure and automation features work for you, not against you, and is for novices—as well as seasoned users who secretly suspect there is a better way.

  • Banish repetitive drudgery
  • Boss your text flow
  • Keep your documents tidy and problem free