Adobe InDesign CC Advanced with ACA Exam 3 Days - Glasgow

InDesign Advanced with ACA 3 Days Overview

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 Associate (ACA) InDesign exam, including trying a mock exam, reviewing answers, and then taking the real exam. The ACA 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 Associate status.

As well as giving you the opportunity to take the ACA 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 ACA 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.

InDesign CC Advanced ACA 3 Days 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.

• 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 Master Pages
• Parent & Child masters
• Overriding Master Page items
• Using ‘Shuffle’ options
• Best practice with master page
• 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

• 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 ACA Exam
• Instant Pass or Fail Result

What's Included

The following are provided for your best experience on this course:

• All computers for your use with choice of Windows or Mac systems
• Small class size (limited to a maximum of 4-8 attendees on all sessions)
• Quality reference manual for post course reference to take away with you
• 6 months post course support to assist you where needed
• Official Adobe Authorised Certificate for your successful completion of the course
• Lunch To give you the most flexible options for lunch we provide lunch vouchers which can be redeemed locally at a number of popular eateries including Pret A Manger, EAT, Starbucks, Tesco, Sainsburys, Boots and Greggs
• Refreshments to keep you on top form are available for you throughout the course with a full range of teas, coffees and biscuits
• Pads and pens

Daily course times run between 10am and 5pm 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.

Further details on benefits included with this Adobe InDesign CC course:

Training Location

This course is provided at our Scotland training centre located in central Glasgow at:

Daily course times run between 10am and 5pm 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.

Scheduled Course Enquiry

If you are considering this InDesign CC Advanced ACA 3 Days Course but would like further information simply send us your query quickly & easily with the form below. Whether you would like to check date availability, pricing, course suitability or just need further information about a course send us your query and we will get you a swift reply, usually within 2 business hours!

If you would prefer to check course details by phone please call us on 0345 363 1130.

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Testimonials

Impressive course! Many thanks also for the InDesign Shortcuts & Preference Guide which will be very useful and are greatly appreciated

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To say that this course has revolutionised my design life is an understatement; It will benefit my work certainly but also several projects currently ongoing in my personal life as I am an aspiring writer and food blogger. Fantastic course delivered by an amazing trainer!

Lyndsay Stewart, Next, InDesign - Two Day Introduction

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.

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The course was thorough and well explained. The friendly approach made it all easy to understand and follow and all questions were dealt with straight away. Thank you!

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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!

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The training was excellent, well paced and all of our questions were answered. There was time at the end to put into practice what had been learnt and ask further questions or queries. Prepared handouts were are clear and useful for future reference.

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Well-paced and was taught the most important processes that will make a real difference to everyday use of InDesign.

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Our tutor was very knowledgeable and very patient whilst training. He answered all questions no matter how small. Not only did he show us the Adobe way but also faster shortcuts to ensure workflow on the system is better. I would recommend this training to anyone remotely interested in print or digital design.

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A thoroughly enjoyable course, very useful and brilliantly tailored to our requirements. Have completed two other introductory InDesign courses and this has been the best by far. Would definitely recommend to others.

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