This document provides instructions for basic layout and formatting tasks in InDesign, including: - Opening a new document and selecting page columns and pages - Rearranging pages by right clicking and dragging - Highlighting text to change font, size, color, and alignment - Adding a stand first below the headline - Creating a drop cap by increasing the size of the first letter - Making a grab quote by copying text to a text box - Inserting images and using the text wrap tool - Creating captions for images

1. How to use InDesign

2. This screenshot shows how to
open a new document and how to
chose how many columns you
want. As well as the number of
pages you will need. If you follow
this directions you will be able to
open a new InDesign document for
double page spread.
Click on the page icon to edit that
specific page. However, Do not
click on the A master page because
it will edit all the pages in the same
way.

3. I rearranged the pages
around by clicking right
on one of the pages and
then unclicking allowed
for the pages to move. I
dragged the two last
pages together for the
double page spread.
Therefore, I have a front
page, contents page and
a double page spread

4. This print screen
shows that I first
clicked right and
then when I
unclicked it allowed
the “document
pages to shuffle”.
This option help me
to order the pages
correctly.

5. Always highlight text to
change colour , size or font.
To get text, you have to click
‘T’ on the left hand side.
You can type in any font and
increase the size by clicking
the ‘T’ at the top of the
page. To change the font is
also at the top of the page.
If you click on Paragraphing
formatting at the top of the
page, you can align the text
with the box.
To change the colour of the
text you click the right hand
and highlight the text. By
highlighting certain parts of
the text you change that
part a different colour. To
change the opacity of the
colour you have to click
“tint” under the swatches
section. There is a
percentage next to it which
can be increased or
decreased.

6. The next step is to add a
stand first. This comes
below the headline. You can
change the font , size and
align the text in the exact
same way as the headline.
Remember to highlight the
text before you can edit it. If
you click on paragraph
formatting then you can get
rid of the hyphenate. You
can add a By-line in as well.
This helps the audience to
become familiar with the
writers of the articles. You
can change the font, size
and colour accordingly.

7. To create a drop cap, you
firstly need to get the text
tool and click a the first line
of text. Then go to the
paragraph formatting tool
at the top of the page, and
then find “drop cap
number of lines”. Then click
on the arrow pointing
upwards, which will start
increasing the first letter
larger. ONLY SELECT FIRST
LETTER.
Click on the tool to make
the drop cap and not the
one next to it.

8. To make a Grab Quote, you must
first highlight text and then
create a new text box. The copy
and paste the text into it. From
there you can edit the text using
the selection tool. you can make
the box smaller or larger, which
suits the text and the article
better. The move the text box
over into the article and click
“windows” at the top of the
screen. Then click “jump object”
and the grab quote will stand
out. The article text will flow
around the quote. An alternative
way is to “wrap around object
shape”. This wraps the text from
the article around the quote.

9. To insert an image you have to click on file
and then go “place”. This inserts the image
and then if you click the edges, you can
draw out the size of the image. The text
wrap tool can be used to make the article’s
text flow around the picture.
To create an caption for the picture, select
a new text box then insert text into it.
Then move the text box over the image ,
but the text will not be showing through.
Therefore, you need to make the text go
over the image. Click right on the text box
and find “text frame options” click on it.
Then click on to the box that says ignore
text wrap and click preview. This will show
you that the caption is now above the
picture and the rest of the text.

11. To change the colour of the
background , you must first
draw a rectangle around
both pages. The use fill
colour to colour in the
background any colour of
your choosing. Then go get
the text back on the top of
the background. Then you
will have to click right and
click arrange and then
select “back not backwards.
Then all the text will come
to the front.