Document Outline

• Legal notices
• Contents
• Chapter 1: What’s new
  • What’s new (CS5.5)
    • EPUBS
      • Articles
      • Linked stories
      • Object Export options
      • Map styles to export tags
      • Integration with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite
      • Improved EPUB and HTML export
    • Usability and productivity
      • Dictionary enhancements
      • Drag and drop anchored objects
      • Better PDF tag support
      • PDF enhancements
  • What’s new (CS5)
    • Design and layout
    • Cross media design
    • Collaboration
    • Usability and productivity
• Chapter 2: Workspace
  • Workspace basics
    • Workspace overview
      • Hide or show all panels
      • Display panel options
      • (Illustrator) Adjust panel brightness
      • Reconfigure the Tools panel
    • Manage windows and panels
      • Rearrange, dock, or float document windows
      • Dock and undock panels
      • Move panels
      • Add and remove panels
      • Manipulate panel groups
      • Stack floating panels
      • Resize panels
      • Collapse and expand panel icons
    • Save and switch workspaces
      • Save a custom workspace
      • Display or switch workspaces
      • Delete a custom workspace
      • Restore the default workspace
      • (Photoshop) Restore a saved workspace arrangement
    • About view modes
    • Using the status bar
    • Control panel overview
      • Display the panel menu
      • Dock or float the Control panel
      • Customize the Control panel
    • About the Navigator panel
    • Use context menus
    • Change Interface preferences
  • Customize menus and keyboard shortcuts
    • Customize menus
      • Create a custom menu set
      • Select a custom menu set
      • Edit or delete a custom menu set
      • Show hidden menu items
    • Missing menu commands
    • Use keyboard shortcut sets
      • Change the active shortcut set
      • View shortcuts
      • Generate a list of shortcuts for printing
      • Create a new shortcut set
      • Create or redefine a shortcut
      • Copying keyboard shortcut sets
  • Toolbox
    • Toolbox overview
      • Display the toolbox
      • Display tool options
      • Display and select hidden tools
      • Select tools temporarily
      • View tool hints
      • Change the toolbox layout
    • Tools overview
    • Gallery of selection tools
    • Gallery of drawing and type tools
    • Gallery of transformation tools
    • Gallery of modification and navigation tools
  • Viewing the workspace
    • Zoom in and out
      • Zoom in or out
      • Use power zoom
      • Zoom to Actual Size
    • Adjust the view
      • Fit the page, spread, or pasteboard within the active window
      • Scroll the view
    • Turn pages
    • Work with additional windows
    • Use anti-aliasing for smoothing edges
    • Greek type
    • Calculate values in panels and dialog boxes
    • Enter values in panels and dialog boxes
  • Working with ConnectNow
  • Setting preferences
    • About preferences and defaults
    • Set general preferences
    • Set defaults
      • Change default settings for new documents
      • Specify default settings for new objects in a document
    • Restore all preferences and default settings
    • About InDesign styles and presets
  • Recovery and undo
    • Recover documents
      • Find recovered documents
      • Change the location of recovered documents
    • Undo mistakes
• Chapter 3: Layout
  • Creating documents
    • Create new documents
      • Create a new document
      • New Document options
      • Document window overview
      • Create custom page sizes
      • Define document presets
      • Create a document using a preset
    • Customize the pasteboard and guides
    • Change document setup, margins, and columns
      • Change document setup
      • Change page margin and column settings
      • Create unequal column widths
  • Rulers and measurement units
    • Change rulers and measurement units
      • Show or hide rulers
      • Change measurement units and rulers
      • Override default measurement units
    • Change the zero point
      • Adjust the zero point
      • Change the default zero point
    • Measure objects
      • Measure the distance between two points
      • Measure angles
    • Info panel overview
      • Display the Info panel
      • Determine the word count
      • View additional Info panel options
  • Grids
    • Use grids
      • Set up a baseline grid
      • Set up a document grid
      • Show or hide grids
    • Snapping objects to grids
      • Snap objects to the document grid
  • Ruler guides
    • Create ruler guides
      • Create a ruler guide
      • Create a set of evenly spaced page guides
      • Show or hide guides
    • Work with ruler guides
      • Select ruler guides
      • Move ruler guides
      • Delete ruler guides
      • Customize ruler guides
      • Lock or unlock ruler guides
      • Change ruler guide stacking order
      • Snap objects to guides and grids
    • Use smart guides
      • Turn smart guides on or off
      • Turn smart guide categories on or off
      • Change the appearance of smart guides
      • Tips for using Smart Guides
  • Pages and spreads
    • About pages and spreads
      • Change the page and spread display
      • Target or select a page or spread
      • Add new pages to a document
      • Create color labels for page thumbnails
    • Move, duplicate, and delete pages and spreads
      • Move pages using Move Pages command
      • Move pages by dragging
      • Duplicate a page or spread
      • Remove a page from a spread while keeping it in the document
      • Delete a page or spread from the document
    • Move or copy pages between documents
      • Move or copy pages between documents
      • Move or copy pages between documents by dragging
    • Control spread pagination
      • Create a multiple-page spread
      • Redistribute pages
      • Start a document with a two-page spread
    • Rotate the spread view
    • Use multiple page sizes
      • Create different page sizes within a document
      • Use master page overlays
  • Master pages
    • About masters, stacking order, and layers
    • Create masters
      • Create a master from scratch
      • Create a master from an existing page or spread
      • Base one master on another
      • Edit the layout of a master
      • Change master page options
    • Apply master pages
      • Apply a master to a document page or spread
      • Apply a master to multiple pages
      • Unassign masters from document pages
    • Copy masters
      • Copy a master within a document
      • Copy or move a master to another document
    • Delete a master from a document
    • Override or detach master items
      • Override a master item
      • Detach a master item
      • Prevent a master item from being overridden
      • Reapply master items
      • Hide master items
    • Import a master from another document
  • Layers
    • About layers
    • Create layers
      • Create layers
      • Specify layer options
      • Assign a layer color
    • Add objects to layers
      • Select, move, and copy objects on layers
      • Paste objects into different layers
    • Duplicate a layer
    • Change the order of layers
    • Show or hide layers and objects
    • Set a layer as nonprinting
    • Lock or unlock layers
    • Delete layers
    • Merge layers in a document
  • Laying out frames and pages
    • About paths and frames
    • Show or hide frame edges
    • Using placeholders to design pages
    • Redefine the purpose of paths and frames
    • About automatic layout adjustment
      • Set options for layout adjustment
      • Layout Adjustment options
  • Numbering pages, chapters, and sections
    • Add basic page numbering
      • Add a page number marker to a master page
      • Change the page numbering style
      • Common page numbering tasks
    • Add section and chapter numbering
      • Add an automatically updated chapter number
      • Add an automatically updated section marker
      • Change the format of page and chapter numbering
    • Define section numbering
      • Define sections in a document
      • Edit or remove section numbering
      • Display absolute or section numbering in the Pages panel
    • Document numbering options
    • Create headers and footers
      • Create a header or footer on a master page
      • Create variables for running headers and footers
    • Add automatic page numbers for story jumps
  • Text variables
    • Create and edit text variables
      • Create or edit text variables
      • Variable types
    • Insert text variables
    • Delete, convert, and import text variables
      • Delete text variables
      • Convert text variables to text
      • Import text variables from another document
• Chapter 4: Working with documents
  • Working with files and templates
    • Recommended workflow for InDesign documents
    • Open InDesign documents
      • Use the Open command
      • Open recent document
      • Choosing word lists when opening documents
    • Convert earlier versions of InDesign documents
    • Using Adobe Bridge with InDesign
    • Adobe Version Cue
    • Use document templates
      • Save a document as a template
      • Start a new document from a template
      • Edit an existing template
    • Reviewing InDesign documents
    • Designing calendars and business cards from templates
  • Saving documents
    • Save documents
      • Include previews in saved documents
      • Save an InDesign Markup (IDML) document
    • Save backwards to the previous InDesign version
    • Work with metadata
      • Add metadata using the File Info dialog box
      • Export metadata as an XMP file
      • Import metadata from an XMP file
      • Edit metadata in image files
  • Converting QuarkXPress and PageMaker documents
    • Open QuarkXPress files in InDesign
      • Open a QuarkXPress document or template
      • Save a QuarkXPress template as an InDesign template
      • What gets converted from QuarkXPress
    • Convert PageMaker documents
      • Open a PageMaker document or template
      • Save a PageMaker template as an InDesign template
      • Common PageMaker conversion issues
  • Exporting
    • Export text
    • Export to JPEG format
    • Exporting content for the web
    • Export content to Dreamweaver (CS5)
      • XHTML export options
    • Export content to HTML (CS5.5)
      • Export to HTML
    • Export content for EPUB (CS5)
      • EPUB resources
      • Digital Editions General export options
      • Digital Editions Images options
      • Digital Editions Contents options
    • Export content for EPUB (CS5.5)
      • EPUB resources
      • EPUB General export options
      • EPUB Images options
      • EPUB Contents options
    • Export content to Buzzword
    • Use the web color swatch library
• Chapter 5: Text
  • Creating text and text frames
    • Create text frames
    • Move and resize text frames
      • Move a text frame
      • Resize a text frame
    • Using text frames on master pages
    • Change text frame properties
      • Add columns to a text frame
      • Change text frame inset spacing (margins)
      • First baseline offset options
      • Set baseline grids for a text frame
    • Determine word and character counts
    • Working with additional languages
  • Adding text to frames
    • Add text to a document
      • Type text in a document
      • Type Asian text using inline input
      • Insert placeholder text
    • Paste text
      • Paste text from another application
      • Adjust spacing automatically when pasting text
    • Drag and drop text
    • Place (import) text
      • About import filters
      • Microsoft Word and RTF import options
      • Text-file import options
      • Microsoft Excel import options
      • Tagged-text import options
      • Save Word or RTF import options as presets
    • Import Buzzword documents
    • Link or embed imported text files
  • Threading text
    • Thread text frames
      • Add a new frame to the thread
      • Add an existing frame to the thread
      • Add a frame inside a sequence of threaded frames
      • Unthread text frames
    • Cut or delete threaded text frames
      • Cut a frame from a thread
      • Delete a frame from a thread
    • Flow text manually or automatically
      • Flow text manually
      • Flow text semi-automatically
      • Flow text automatically
      • Flow text automatically without adding pages
    • Use Smart Text Reflow
  • Articles (CS5.5)
    • Create an article and add content to it
    • Add all page items in a document to an article
    • Managing articles
    • Include articles for export
  • Linked stories (CS5.5)
    • Create a linked story
    • Specify linked story options
    • Update a linked story
    • Edit original story
  • Editing text
    • Select text
      • Change what triple-clicking does
      • Select text in a frame that is covered
    • View hidden (nonprinting) characters
      • List of hidden characters
    • Add column, frame, and page breaks
      • Break options
    • Use the Story Editor
      • Open the Story Editor
      • Return to the layout window
      • Show or hide Story Editor items
      • Story Editor preferences
    • Use conditional text
      • Planning conditional documents
      • Create conditions
      • Apply conditions to text
      • Show or hide conditions
      • Use condition sets
      • Manage conditions
      • Find and change conditional text
  • Find/Change
    • Find/Change overview
    • Find and change text
      • Find and change text
      • Find and change formatted text
      • Common Find/Change techniques
      • Search options for finding and changing text
    • Search using GREP expressions
      • Tips for constructing GREP searches
      • GREP search examples
    • Metacharacters for searching
    • Find and change objects
    • Find and change glyphs
    • Find and change fonts
    • Find/change items using queries
      • Search using queries
      • Save queries
      • Delete queries
      • Load queries
  • Glyphs and special characters
    • Glyphs panel overview
      • Open the Glyphs panel
      • Change the Glyphs panel view
      • Filter the glyphs that appear
      • Sort glyphs in the Glyphs panel
    • Insert glyphs and special characters
      • Insert special characters
      • Insert a glyph from a specified font
      • Insert a recently used glyph
      • Clear recently used glyphs
      • Replace a character with an alternate glyph
      • Display OpenType glyph attributes in the Glyphs panel
      • Highlight alternate glyphs in the text
    • Create and edit custom glyph sets
      • Create a custom glyph set
      • View a custom glyph set
      • Edit custom glyph sets
      • Delete glyphs from custom glyph sets
      • Delete custom glyph sets
      • Save and load glyph sets
    • Use quotation marks
      • Specify which quotation marks to use
      • Insert straight quotation marks
    • Insert white space characters
      • White space options
  • Spell-checking and language dictionaries
    • Check spelling
      • Set spelling preferences
      • Check spelling
      • Correct spelling errors as you type
      • Use dynamic spelling
    • Hyphenation and spelling dictionaries
      • Create or add user dictionaries
      • Set the default language dictionary for the current document
      • Set the default language dictionary for all new documents
      • Remove, relink, and reorder user dictionaries
      • Add words to dictionaries
      • Remove or edit words in dictionaries
      • Export a word list
      • Import a word list
      • Change dictionary preferences
      • Using dictionaries in a workgroup
  • Footnotes
    • Create footnotes
    • Change footnote numbering and layout
      • Footnote numbering and formatting options
      • Footnote layout options
    • Delete footnotes
    • Work with footnote text
  • Tracking and reviewing changes
    • Track changes
      • Turn on change tracking
      • How change tracking is displayed
      • Show or hide changes
      • Turn off change tracking
    • Accept and reject changes
    • Set Track Changes preferences
    • Change the user name and color
  • Adding editorial notes in InDesign
    • Add editorial notes
    • Use Notes mode
    • Manage notes
    • Edit Notes preferences
• Chapter 6: Styles
  • Paragraph and character styles
    • About character and paragraph styles
    • Styles panel overview
      • Open the Paragraph Styles panel
      • Open the Character Styles panel
    • Add paragraph and character styles
      • Define paragraph or character styles
      • Base one paragraph or character style on another
      • Import styles from other documents
    • Map styles to export tags (CS5.5)
      • Define style-tag mapping
      • Edit all export tags
    • Convert Word styles to InDesign styles
    • Apply styles
      • Apply a character style
      • Apply a paragraph style
      • Apply sequential styles to multiple paragraphs
    • Edit character and paragraph styles
      • Edit a style using the dialog box
      • Redefine a style to match selected text
    • Delete character or paragraph styles
    • Override character and paragraph styles
      • Preserve or remove overrides when applying paragraph styles
      • Clear paragraph style overrides
      • Break the link between text and its style
    • Convert style bullets and numbering to text
    • Find and replace character and paragraph styles
  • Drop caps and nested styles
    • Apply a character style to a drop cap
    • Create nested styles
      • Create one or more nested styles
      • Create nested line styles
      • Loop through nested styles
      • Nested style character style options
      • End a nested style
      • Remove the formatting of a nested style
    • Create GREP styles
  • Object styles
    • About object styles
    • Object Styles panel overview
      • Open the Object Style panel
      • Change how object styles are listed in the panel
    • Define object styles
      • Object style categories
    • Apply object styles
    • Use default object styles
    • Clear object style overrides
      • Clear object style overrides
      • Clear attributes ignored in an object style
    • Break the link to an object style
    • Rename an object style
    • Edit object styles
    • Delete an object style
    • Redefine an object style
    • Import object styles
  • Working with styles
    • Duplicate styles or style groups
    • Group styles
      • Create a style group
      • Copy styles to a group
      • Expand or collapse style groups
      • Delete style groups
    • Move and reorder styles
• Chapter 7: Combining text and objects
  • Anchored objects
    • About anchored objects
    • Create an anchored object
      • Inserted Anchored Objects options
      • Inline and Above Line position options
      • Custom position options
    • Position a custom-positioned anchored object
    • Working with anchored objects using drag-and-drop (CS5.5)
    • Selecting and copying anchored objects
    • View anchored object markers on the page
    • Reposition an anchored object on the page manually
    • Resize an anchored object
    • Release an anchored object
  • Wrapping text around objects
    • Wrap text around objects
      • Wrap text around simple objects
      • Wrap text around imported images
      • Create an inverted text wrap
    • Change the shape of a text wrap
    • Apply text wrap on master page items
    • Wrapping text around anchored objects
    • Suppress text wrap on hidden layers
    • Justify text next to wrap objects
    • Ignore text wrap in a text frame
  • Creating type on a path
    • Create type on a path
    • Edit or delete type on a path
      • Edit and format path-type characters
      • Delete type from a path
      • Tighten character spacing around sharp turns and acute angles
    • Adjust the type on a path position
      • Change the start or end position of type on a path
      • Slide type along a path
      • Flip type on a path
    • Apply an effect to type on a path
    • Add anchored objects to type on a path
  • Captions
    • Generate a caption from an image
    • Specify caption setup options
    • Create captions using variables
    • Define caption variables
• Chapter 8: Typography
  • Formatting text
    • Format text
    • Copy type attributes (Eyedropper)
      • Copy type attributes to unselected text
      • Copy type attributes to selected text
      • Change which text attributes the Eyedropper tool copies
    • Use Quick Apply
  • Using fonts
    • About fonts
    • Installing fonts
    • Apply a font to text
    • Specify a typeface size
    • Previewing fonts
    • OpenType fonts
    • Installing OpenType fonts
    • Apply OpenType font attributes
      • Apply OpenType font attributes
      • OpenType font attributes
    • Work with missing fonts
      • Make missing fonts available
      • Highlight substituted fonts in your document
    • Document installed fonts
    • Multiple master fonts
  • Leading
    • About leading
    • Change leading
      • Change leading of selected text
      • Change the default leading percentage
      • Apply leading to whole paragraphs
  • Kerning and tracking
    • About kerning and tracking
    • Apply kerning to text
      • Use metrics kerning
      • Use optical kerning
      • Adjust kerning manually
      • Change the default kerning increment value
      • Turn off kerning for selected text
      • Adjust tracking
      • Highlight text containing custom kerning and tracking
    • Adjust kerning between words
  • Formatting characters
    • Apply baseline shift
    • Make characters superscript or subscript in a non-OpenType font
    • Apply underline or strikethrough
      • Apply underline or strikethrough
      • Change underline or strikethrough options
    • Apply ligatures to letter pairs
    • Change the color, gradient, or stroke of text
    • Add transparency effects to text
    • Assign a language to text
    • Change the case of type
      • Change text to All Caps or Small Caps
      • Specify the size for small caps
      • Change capitalization
    • Scale type
      • Adjust vertical or horizontal scaling
      • Scale text by resizing the text frame in InDesign
      • Determine the appearance of scaled text values
    • Skew type
  • Formatting paragraphs
    • Adjust paragraph spacing
    • Use drop caps
      • Create a drop cap
      • Remove a drop cap
    • Add rules (lines) above or below paragraphs
      • Add a rule above or below a paragraph
      • Remove a paragraph rule
    • Ways to control paragraph breaks
    • Control paragraph breaks using Keep Options
    • Create hanging punctuation
  • Aligning text
    • Align or justify text
    • Align paragraphs to a baseline grid
      • Align paragraphs to the baseline grid
      • Align only the first line to the baseline grid
    • Create balanced headline text
    • Create paragraphs that span or split columns
      • Span a paragraph across columns
      • Split a paragraph into columns
    • Align or justify text vertically within a text frame
  • Tabs and indents
    • Tabs dialog box overview
      • Open the Tabs dialog box
      • Align the Tabs dialog box ruler with your text
    • Set tabs
    • Repeat tabs
    • Move, delete, and edit tab settings
      • Move a tab setting
      • Delete a tab setting
      • Change a tab from one alignment to another
    • Specify characters for decimal tabs
    • Add tab leaders
    • Insert right indent tabs
    • Set indents
      • Set an indent using the Tabs dialog box
      • Set indents using the Paragraph panel or the Control panel
      • Reset indents
      • Create a hanging indent
      • Right-indent the last line of a paragraph
      • Use Indent To Here
  • Bullets and numbering
    • Create bulleted or numbered lists
    • Format a bulleted or numbered list
    • Change bullet characters
      • Change the bullet character
      • Add a bullet character
      • Remove a bullet character
    • Change numbered list options
    • Defining lists
      • Define a list
      • Edit a defined list
      • Delete a defined list
    • Create a paragraph style for running lists
    • Create multi-level lists
    • Create running captions for figures and tables
    • Restart or continue numbering for a list
      • Number a list from the previous or current story
      • Number a list from the previous or current document in a book
    • Convert list bullets or numbers to text
  • Text composition
    • Compose text
      • Composition methods
      • Choose a composition method for a paragraph
      • Set composition preferences
    • Hyphenate text
      • Adjust hyphenation manually
      • Adjust hyphenation automatically
      • Set automatic hyphenation options for a paragraph
    • Prevent unwanted word breaks
      • Prevent text from breaking
      • Create a nonbreaking hyphen
      • Create a nonbreaking space
    • Change Justification settings
      • Adjust word and letterspacing in justified text
      • Set glyph scaling in justified text
      • Use a flush space with justified text
      • Highlight lines that are too loose or tight
• Chapter 9: Tables
  • Creating tables
    • Create tables
      • Create a table from scratch
      • Create a table from existing text
      • Embed a table within a table
      • Importing tables from other applications
    • Add text to a table
    • Add graphics to a table
    • Add table headers and footers
      • Convert existing rows to header or footer rows
      • Change header or footer row options
      • Remove header or footer rows
  • Selecting and editing tables
    • Select table cells, rows, and columns
      • Select cells
      • Select entire columns or rows
      • Select all header, body, or footer rows
      • Select the entire table
    • Insert rows and columns
      • Insert a row
      • Insert a column
      • Insert multiple rows and columns
      • Insert a row or column by dragging
    • Delete rows, columns, or tables
    • Change the alignment of a table within a frame
    • Navigate within a table
      • Move within a table using Tab
      • Move within a table using arrow keys
      • Jump to a specific row in a table
    • Cut, copy, and paste table contents
    • Move or copy a table
    • Convert tables to text
    • Combine tables
    • Working with tables in Story Editor
  • Formatting tables
    • Formatting tables
    • Resize columns, rows, and tables
      • Resize columns and rows
      • Resize rows or columns without changing the table width
      • Resize the entire table
      • Distribute columns and rows evenly
    • Change the spacing before or after a table
    • Break tables across frames
    • Add text before a table
    • Format text within a table
      • Insert tabs into a table cell
      • Change the alignment of text within a table cell
      • Rotate text in a cell
      • Change cell inset spacing
    • Merge and split cells
      • Merge cells
      • Unmerge cells
      • Split cells
    • Work with overset cells
      • Display the contents of an overset cell
      • Clip an image in a cell
  • Table strokes and fills
    • About table strokes and fills
    • Change the table border
    • Add stroke and fill to cells
      • Add stroke and fill using Cell Options
      • Add a stroke to cells using the Stroke panel
      • Add a fill to cells using the Swatches panel
      • Add a gradient to cells using the Gradient panel
    • Add diagonal lines to a cell
    • Table stroke and fill options
    • Alternate strokes and fills in a table
      • Add alternating strokes to a table
      • Add alternating fills to a table
      • Turn off alternating strokes and fills in a table
  • Table and cell styles
    • About table and cell styles
    • Table/Cell Styles panels overview
      • Open the Table Styles or Cell Styles panel
      • Change how styles are listed in the panel
    • Define table and cell styles
    • Load (import) table styles from other documents
    • Apply table and cell styles
    • Base one table or cell style on another
    • Edit table and cell styles
    • Delete table and cell styles
    • Redefine table or cell styles based on current formatting
    • Override table and cell styles
      • Preserve or remove overrides while applying a table style
      • Remove overrides while applying a cell style
      • Clear attributes not defined by a cell style
      • Clear table or cell overrides
    • Break the link to table or cell styles
• Chapter 10: Long document features
  • Creating book files
    • Create a book file
    • Add documents to a book file
    • Manage book files
      • Save a book file
      • Close a book file
      • Remove book documents
      • Replace book documents
      • Open a book file in Explorer or Finder
    • Synchronize book documents
      • Select items to synchronize
      • Synchronize documents in a book file
      • Synchronizing master pages
    • Convert book files from p