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Adobe InDesign CC Advanced with ACP Exam 3 Days - Glasgow
Key Course Details:
Level:
Advanced
Duration:
3
Days - 10am to 5pm
Price:
£695 + vat
Join the professionals in getting the best out of the world's leading desktop-publishing program. Our course will show you how to unlock the power of InDesign's advanced tools and help you to become more proficient and confident in laying out documents. Pass the ACP exam and get qualified!
With our help, you will take your existing InDesign know-how and enhance it as you learn how to create interactive PDFs, eBooks, and more. We will show you how to work more efficiently by saving re-usable data and storing PDF presets. This course is a great way to step up to expert level by increasing the quality, consistency and speed of your output. You will test your new skills as you take the ACP exam.
Join the professionals in getting the best out of the world's leading desktop-publishing program. Our course will show you how to unlock the power of InDesign's advanced tools and help you to become more proficient and confident in laying out documents. Pass the ACP exam and get qualified!
With our help, you will take your existing InDesign know-how and enhance it as you learn how to create interactive PDFs, eBooks, and more. We will show you how to work more efficiently by saving re-usable data and storing PDF presets. This course is a great way to step up to expert level by increasing the quality, consistency and speed of your output. You will test your new skills as you take the ACP exam.
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InDesign Advanced with ACP 3 Days
Course Details
This 3-day Advanced course will help to develop your skills as you explore the advanced features of Adobe InDesign CC. We will help you understand how this industry-leading program takes desktop publishing and design to a new level, and combines production power and creative freedom with tight integration with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat software.
You will already understand the basics of the program, and we will show you how to take that knowledge to the next level. We will cover advanced topics such as creating eBooks, generating indexes, and automating workflows.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Create complex documents such as interactive PDFs and eBooks
- Use advanced tools and palettes
- Re-use data via libraries and snippets
- Generate tables of contents and indexes
- Store PDF presets
The final day of the course is dedicated to the Adobe Certified Professional (ACP) InDesign exam, including trying a mock exam, reviewing answers, and then taking the real exam. The ACP exam represents an official qualification, and you will be provided with an instant pass or fail result. We are confident that you will join everyone we have already helped to pass the exam and collect an official certificate of Adobe Certified Professional status.
As well as giving you the opportunity to take the ACP exam, this course is the perfect preparation if you plan to take the Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) exam.
Our goals are for you to understand the advanced features of InDesign, to become a confident power user, and to leave with an ACP qualification under your belt.
Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites:
This course is intended for those who wish to enhance their existing knowledge of InDesign and who work as graphic designers, creative professionals, print professionals, publishers, pre-press professionals, or marketing communications professionals.
You will need basic experience in using InDesign. Ideally, you will have taken our Adobe InDesign CC Introduction 2 Day course.
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Full Course Outline
The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.
Managing Your Workspaces- Organising Your Panels
- Advanced Zooming and Navigation
- Advanced View Options
- Typographical preferences
- Advanced Character formatting options
- Advanced Paragraph formatting options
- Review of setting up Style Sheets
- Advanced Style Sheet Tips
- Nested Styles
- Using ‘Based on’, ‘Next Style’ and Quick Apply
- Review of setting up Parent Pages
- Parent & Child masters
- Overriding Parent Page items
- Using ‘Shuffle’ options
- Best practice with Parent pages
- Numbering and Section options
- Advanced Align options
- Using keyboard shortcuts for align and distribute
- Using the Gap tool
- Using Autofit for images
- Review of setting up Object Styles
- Setting up a Baseline Grid
- Creating custom frames and objects with the pen tool
- Review of Swatches – managing colours and gradients
- Creating Mixed Inks
- Using the Ink Manager
- Sharing Swatches between documents and with Photoshop and Illustrator
- Using Libraries and Snippets
- Creating Templates
- Creating and using Find/Change queries
- Creating a Table of Contents
- Using an InDesign ‘Book’ to collate documents
- Setting up Indexes
- Tables
- Setting up Tables
- Importing Excel & Word tables
- Creating Table and Cell styles
Creating an interactive PDF- Adding Hyperlinks, Buttons, Movies and Sounds
- Setting up Page Transitions
- Exporting an Interactive PDF
- Understanding what an e-book is
- Overview of preparing an existing file to become an e-book
- Overview of Export options
- Understanding InDesign preferences
- Changing document preferences
- Changing application preferences
- Using the Overprint Preview and the Separations Preview panel
- Defining the Transparency Flattener settings
- Using Preflight
- Understanding an RGB workflow
- Creating PDF presets
- Work through exam preparation sheet
- Sample Exam questions
- Take Practice exam
- Any other questions?
- InDesign ACP Exam
- Instant Pass or Fail Result
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Location Details
This course is provided at our Scotland training centre located in central Glasgow at:
Centrum Business Centre
38 Queen Street
Glasgow
G1 3DXThe Glasgow training centre is located on Queen Street in the heart of Glasgow close to Central Station, Queen Street Station and Argyle Street Station.
Daily course times run between 10am and 4:30pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks. We recommend arrival at 9.45am for registration on the first day of the course.
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InDesign Advanced with ACP 3 Days - Upcoming Glasgow Course Dates
20 Jul - 22 Jul £695 + vat 14 Sep - 16 Sep £695 + vat 15 Nov - 18 Nov £695 + vat -
Client Reviews
"I have studied a course with XChange Training before and it is extremely well organised, friendly staff and has a good work environment."
Victoria Hassett, ETM Group, InDesign - 1 Day Introduction
"Thanks for a very pleasant and educational 2 days. I think it was especially good because it was a small class which gave very individual training."
Nigel Hopwood, Jacob Jensen Design, InDesign - 2 Day Advanced
"Thoroughly enjoyed my day of training on Adobe InDesign, the trainer was very professional and easy to get on with. His knowledge and delivery was very good. Will definitely recommend you to others."
Anthony Barnes, The Design Business, InDesign - 1 Day Essentials
"I was very happy with the way the course was ran and felt everything I wanted to learn was covered. Our tutor was very helpful and friendly. Would definitely recommend to a colleague or friend."
Jade Barnes, ANS Group, Adobe InDesign - Two Day Introduction
"I found the course very enjoyable. After using InDesign for a year just teaching myself how to do things, it is good to now know how to do them properly! Thank you very much."
Justine Rich, Capita, InDesign - 2 Day Introduction
"I have never used Adobe InDesign before and the course and instructor explained everything, pausing and helping if anyone needed. Nothing was a problem to him!"
Molly Henderson, HSS Hire, InDesign Introduction - 2 Days
"The trainer had an extremely high level of knowledge about InDesign. He was very thorough in all his explanations and clear when providing any instructions. I feel very confident in the information I have been given and now feel able to go away and use InDesign. Excellent trainer."
Maria Juszczyszyn, Aldi, InDesign Introduction - Two Days
"Got everything out the course I wanted to. The trainer was great, really knew his stuff and helped to cover the areas we would be using in our jobs. Fantastic!"
Chad Doyle, Stockport Council, InDesign - 4 Day Masterclass
"I really enjoyed the course and the content/pace was easy to follow and gave us opportunities to play around and test what we had learnt. "
Ashleigh Toll, NSPCC, InDesign - 2 Day Bespoke
"Training is/was comprehensive and a good overview for the beginner. Good outline of course and structured day's learning."
Courtney Jones, SPS, InDesign Introduction - 2 Days
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Over 15 years of providing certified Adobe InDesign training courses UK wide
5/5 Stars
It was a great experience. While I did have a basic understanding of indesign, it was useful to gain tips and tricks to make my experience with the platform smoother and easier.
21/06/2022
5/5 Stars
The course was excellent and provided me with the extra tips and tricks that I've needed in order to create InDesign files. I self taught myself initially so this course has given me a really good overview of everything I need to know.
21/06/2022
5/5 Stars
Alan made it very enjoyable and possible for me to follow the course material, despite never using InDesign before.
21/06/2022
5/5 Stars
Really enjoyed the course - learnt lots!
16/06/2022
5/5 Stars
Very good course, lots to take in and now go away and practice. a Additional help guides that were sent with course notes are great.
14/06/2022
5/5 Stars
knowledge of Indesign has improved massively, course very helpful
14/06/2022
5/5 Stars
Very knowledgeable instructor and good content.
14/06/2022
5/5 Stars
Loved Simon, very personable and open to questions
24/05/2022
5/5 Stars
Good basic and intermediate content on the course for using Indesign. The course tutor Phil was very patient, knowledgeable and accommodating to all questions he received from students.
24/05/2022
5/5 Stars
Doug is a very patient and knowledgeable trainer
12/05/2022
5/5 Stars
Really enjoyed course - given a good understanding of InDesign
10/05/2022
5/5 Stars
Really helpful course, made fun and interesting by Susannah
10/05/2022
5/5 Stars
Very comprehensive, pitched at about the right level and paced helpfully
10/05/2022
5/5 Stars
I thought that it was a well-structured course and it also worked well doing it remotely.
10/05/2022
5/5 Stars
very informative and in detail
09/05/2022
5/5 Stars
Really enjoyable and useful day.
09/05/2022
5/5 Stars
Very Good teaching and inclusivity
07/04/2022
4/5 Stars
Really enjoyed the course and learnt some new tricks.
07/04/2022
4/5 Stars
Fantastic course content, learned a lot over the 2 days. Phil is a brilliant trainer and would happily do another course with him. My only criticism is the building that the course was carried out in. Very stuffy and not a great choice of refreshments. Also, we got a much better choice of lunch options when i did an Adobe course in the same location 4 or so years ago.
24/03/2022
5/5 Stars
The course is very interactive, it allows you to actually try and use the techniques instead of just listening and writing them down, which I find really helpful, and gives me a better feel of how to complete different tasks in the programme. Phil is great at helping out and explaining anything that I have misunderstood.
24/03/2022
4/5 Stars
Donna is patient, friendly and engaging. Her lively approach made the course much more interesting to follow. Sometimes I found it hard to follow as i was switching between live documents and the live demo, so perhaps calling out names of documents we are going to open next or just checking we are keeping up would be great for next time. There was a lot to cover in this course, so maybe an extra day or half day is needed. Very impressed with the delivery and quality of the course!
24/03/2022
5/5 Stars
absolutely great. from having zero knowledge to now being confident in designing simple items for my company I cant thank you enough.
22/03/2022
5/5 Stars
This was a great course for learning the basics of InDesign! I would definitely recommend the course to others.
22/03/2022
5/5 Stars
very informative and easy to follow along. Phil was helpful and knowledgable
22/03/2022
5/5 Stars
Alan was very helpful, great teacher with a wealth of knowledge and good attitude, really enjoyed learning with him
22/03/2022
5/5 Stars
Once again Alan was very thorough in explaining the different tools and concepts used in InDesign. I feel that this course has given me a good grounding in the basics in getting started with the software. Remote learning is a great way for me to fit this in with my schedule and it's been organised really well.
22/03/2022
5/5 Stars
great for a beginner, very helpful tips and explanations. having the 2 screens was very useful
08/03/2022
5/5 Stars
A great two-day course and it was nice to have plenty of time to ease into the information. The information was delivered in a really accessible way and I enjoyed the course in the London office.
08/03/2022
5/5 Stars
The course was amazing and would be good to include more topics such as Table content etc.. Rest it was amazing
04/03/2022
4/5 Stars
See previous feedback given to Adam and Chris.
22/02/2022
5/5 Stars
Alan was great as always. I have now completed Photoshop and InDesign training with him and would definitely recommend him to a friend/employee.
10/02/2022
5/5 Stars
Course was taken online with the trainer in the office. Really great and I've learned more in the 2 days that 3 years of university taught me.
01/02/2022
5/5 Stars
I'm really pleased I went on this training course. It was practical, well paced and the trainer was very knowledgeable answering all questions really clearly. I'm looking forward to taking my learning into my day-to-day job.
27/01/2022
5/5 Stars
Alan was a great tutor, very knowledgeable, patient, easy to understand / follow, clear instructions and an enjoyable training session.
24/01/2022
5/5 Stars
Remote participation in an InDesign basics session. Extremely knowledgeable instructor (Alan) gave us a solid introduction to the software. Activities were relevant and well explained, and all appropriate course materials were sent to us well in advance of the session.
24/01/2022
5/5 Stars
Phil was really knowledgeable and friendly which really helped us all understand the content. We had bespoke training at our own offices so can't really comment on the facilities you provide.
21/01/2022
4/5 Stars
Really useful tips for me and my team as we use InDesign a lot. I managed to understand a couple of details that were a bit unclear in my mind. I am looking forward to the next one.
17/01/2022
4/5 Stars
I found the course a little bit quick, but this was probably more because I didn't get my software until 11:30am (fault this side in our IT department) and I've not used InDesign for about 7 years, and then I only had text editing permissions. So I was almost a complete beginner and got a bit lost. Great that I can watch the recording and take myself through it all again.
17/01/2022
4/5 Stars
Very useful course and I really liked following along with practical examples. Alan was clear and really patient when people has issues or questions. It was quite intense being a full day, so I would have liked a couple more toilet/coffee breaks.
17/01/2022
4/5 Stars
I found the training very informative and learnt a lot - shortcuts especially useful. If any comment at all would be there is a lot of information to take in at one sitting. Towards the end it felt a bit rushed as we tried to cover the content. Would maybe have preferred to do as two separate sessions over two days. The trainer was very good and explained things well but there could have been a bit more time given to complete the exercises. Overall the experience was good and enjoyed it.
17/01/2022
5/5 Stars
really friendly and so helpful
11/01/2022
5/5 Stars
Well planned and delivered course. Useful, well explained content.
11/01/2022
5/5 Stars
Susannah has been fantastic. Her course is excellent. She has a great style, she's very knowledgeable, animated, friendly, has an excellent pace, was open, approachable and welcoming, helped the group if they got stuck but that was infrequent due to her style and pace of delivery. Breaks were the right length to keep the group energized. She had a calm demeanor and is obviously very skilled at delivering this course, as it was delivered seamlessly. Would definitely recommend this course.
11/01/2022
4/5 Stars
Overall the course was filled with a lot of information. The breaks were timed great and we had enough time to go over each section. some parts were difficult to understand, however with the book that will be provided I am confident to go back and revise
08/01/2022
5/5 Stars
Phil, our trainer was absolutely amazing. His method of teaching was enthusiastic, clear and very informative. He has great knowledge of the programme and is very patient and listens carefully to queries providing clear answers. The structure of the day i.e. training / breaks was perfect too. I have learnt so much over the last two days and am very happy with the experience. Thank you.
16/12/2021
Whats Included:
Your choice of Windows or Mac 
Certified hands-on training 
Small class size (max 4-8) 
6 months post course support 
Quality reference manual 
Authorised Course Certificate 
Lunch and refreshments
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the course times?
For all courses in the Glasgow Centre the normal session timings are 10am to 5pm with an hour break for lunch. In addition to the hour lunch break there are also two fifteen minute coffee breaks mid morning and mid afternoon.
Daily times are:
09.45 - Registration
10.00 - Course start
13.00 - Lunch
14.00 - Afternoon starts
17.00 - Course ends
Do you offer discounts
or promotions?
We offer a range of regular discounts available for self funding individuals, charities and education along with period special offers. See our promotions page for full details.
What is provided with this course?
During the course we provide all computers for your use with choice of Windows or Mac, lunch and refreshments along with pads & pens. After the course you will receive the authorised Certificate, quality reference manual and 6 months direct post course support.
Does this course give
a qualification?
Yes this course provides you with an official recognised qualification which is the Adobe Certified Professional gained by passing the exam at the end of the course.
Can you invoice my company?
In short yes we can provide 30 day invoice terms to any UK Limited company with the provision of your official purchase order and/or completing the invoice request for your booking online.
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