InDesign: Advanced Styles, Long Documents & AI
Time: 9AM - 4PM Eastern Time (ET)
Duration: 3 Days
Course Code: ADID202
In this course, you will learn how to:
- work with spreads and parent pages
- work with styles and style packs
- work with Live text and track changes
- build and modify tables in InDesign
- generate and update a table of contents
- generate index items
- create, synchronize, and export books
Prerequisites
InDesign, or equivalent knowledge or experience is mandatory.
Public Class Schedule
| Location | Language | Date | Price | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web-based(Opens in new window) | English | April 8th, 2026 | $ 1,295.00 | |
| Web-based(Opens in new window) | English | June 8th, 2026 | $ 1,295.00 | |
| Web-based(Opens in new window) | English | August 19th, 2026 | $ 1,295.00 | |
| Web-based(Opens in new window) | English | October 14th, 2026 | $ 1,295.00 | |
| Web-based(Opens in new window) | English | December 9th, 2026 | $ 1,295.00 |
Course Outline
- Introduction
- the InDesign Workspace and preferences
- working with images
- working with text and text frames
- using Adobe Bridge, Libraries and Snippits
- InDesign contextual task bar
- working with AI Generative Expand
- AI text to image generator
- using History panel
- sharing InDesign layout for review
- working with long documents
- navigating longer documents
- adding/deleting/duplicating/moving pages
- working with spreads and the Page tool
- using parent pages to duplicate headers, footers and page properties
- overriding parent page items
- changing and reapplying parent items
- page numbering options
- creating multiple sections
- flowing large stories over large page ranges
- working with multiple parent pages and the primary text frame
- using Find/Change features
- introduction to InDesign GREP
- finding and changing Glyphs, Objects and Colours
- working with Style Sheets
- defining and using paragraph and character styles
- loading and importing styles between documents
- applying styles and style overrides to text
- clearing overrides, redefining and deleting styles
- hyphenation and justification
- keeping lines and paragraphs together
- nesting styles for efficiency
- working with bullets and numbered lists
- using the next style feature to format large ranges of type
- object effects and styles, text frame options and transparency effects
- using InDesign Library
- using Adobe InDesign AI styles packs
- document text features
- headers and footers
- footnotes and endnotes
- working with Live Text variables
- working with automatic image captions
- tracking changes in the text story
- working with tables in InDesign
- creating, deleting and editing tables
- inserting and anchoring tables to paragraphs
- converting text to tables
- importing tables from other applications
- fitting and editing tables
- formatting tables and cells
- flowing tables across pages
- creating and modifying table styles
- table of contents (TOC)
- review of paragraph styles, using tabs in styles
- creating TOC entry styles
- generating the TOC
- saving the general TOC style
- updating the TOC
- using a TOC with Books
- indexes
- creating index items
- modifying/deleting index items
- generating the index file
- index levels and styles
- working with indexes with Books
- working with Books
- creating a Book
- book options and settings
- adding/removing/replacing documents
- synchronizing a Book
- printing/exporting a Book
Private training is available for this course.
Call us at 1-888-484-2933 to learn more about our flexible scheduling options or complete our Information Request Form.
Required Technical Set-Up for Remote Online Participation
- 2 monitors or screens. If you don’t have a second monitor connected to your primary computer, you could use a second computer such as a laptop. 1 screen is used to watch the instructor, the second is for you to perform the exercises.
- High-speed internet connection
- Google Chrome preferred (Alternative: Microsoft Edge)
- Speaker & microphone, either built-in to your computer or external
- For complete set-up information, please visit our web based manual
Our Policies
Registration Information
Classes are from 9:00am - 4:00pm Eastern Standard Time
Registrations are accepted in the order they are received.
Payment Options & Guidelines
We accept the following forms of payment: Visa and MasterCard
FlexPass Booking & Cancellation Policy
Eliquo Training and Development Inc. will make every attempt to be flexible in regard to class cancellations and rescheduling. In an attempt to ensure that everyone enjoys a consistent training experience, Eliquo offers the following policies.
Course Registration Terms
All cancellations and rescheduling requests must be made a minimum of six (6) business days prior to scheduled class. Changes must be made through the Student Support Centre. In the event that a class is cancelled due to insufficient enrollment, you can reserve a seat in the next available class. You will be notified of a class cancellation by email at least five (5) business days in advance of the scheduled class. Eliquo Training and Development Inc. also reserves the right to postpone or cancel a class at any time for just cause such as instructor illness or other environmental factors. Eliquo is not responsible for any error in the delivery of the email notice where the error is due to the recipient’s email client or service.
If an Individual FlexPass participant does not attend classes or does not provide the required cancellation request (as above), two (2) times or more in a single month, and the occurrence happens on two (2) occasions throughout the FlexPass term, the FlexPass may be terminated without a refund.
Eliquo Individual FlexPasses are designated for one person only. Any abuse of the engagement from code sharing or other instances of shared participation under one account will result in the FlexPass being terminated without a refund.
Eliquo reserves the right to limit class participant enrolment to ensure courses are delivered effectively. Most classes are limited to a maximum of 12 participants.
Eliquo's Individual FlexPass program is subject to any applicable taxes.
Classes are offered on a first come first serve basis.
Web-Based Training
Eliquo Training and Development Inc. requires that web-based class participants follow the supplied set-up and testing procedures a minimum of three (3) days in advance of their class start date in order to avoid technical issues on the day of their class.
Eliquo is not responsible for participants who are experiencing technical difficulties due to issues incurred on their own computer network(s).