InDesign CS2 New Features

1 day

Overview

Over the past several years, Adobe has continuously enhanced its design process and applications by introducing new versions with greater capability and ease. Adobe InDesign CS2 continues this trend as part of the second edition of the Creative Suite called CS2. In this course, you will explore the new features of Adobe InDesign CS2 and its increased functionality.

Course Objective

You will explore the new features of Adobe InDesign CS2.

Target student

The target students for this course are existing users of InDesign, ideally InDesign CS users.

Prerequisites

To ensure your success, we recommend that you take the following course InDesign CS (or earlier versions).

Designing Documents

Create and Use a Snippet
Create and Use Anchored Objects
Create the Structure of a Document
Utilize Data Merge on Masters

Manipulating Text

Create a User Dictionary
Import a Word List into a User Dictionary
Manage Text
Apply Styles to Text and Objects

Constructing Objects

Create an Object Style
Format a Story
Apply Transformations to Selections
Convert Shapes

Incorporating Color

Select Colors Using the Color Picker
Load and Save Swatches Using the Swatches Palette

Managing Assets

View Assets with Adobe Bridge
Apply Metadata and Keywords to Assets in Adobe Bridge
Set Options for the Creative Suite Color Settings

Transporting Files

Work with Layered Files
Save in the Interchange File Format
Import Materials from Microsoft Word

Managing Long Documents

Insert Footnotes
Format Footnotes

Utilizing XML

Import and Integrate XML
Apply XML Tags to Objects