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InDesign CS5 For Dummies Update

The InDesign CS5.5 update brings one change to what is described in InDesign CS5 For Dummies:

• There's now an easier way to anchor objects to text. All graphics and text frames display a blue square near the upper right corner. Click and drag that square into the text you want to anchor the object into, then release the mouse button. To create an inline anchored object, hold the Shift key while dragging.

InDesign CS4 For Dummies Excerpts

• Bonus chapter: Properly Setting Up Your Printer (384K PDF)

InDesign CS3 For Dummies Excerpts

• Bonus chapter: Properly Setting Up Your Printer (384K PDF)
• Color screens (Chapter 7) (GIF images in 269K Zip archive)

InDesign CS2 For Dummies Excerpts

• Chapter 2 sample files (700K Zip archive)
• Color screens (Chapter 10) (GIF images in 250K Zip archive)

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Major Changes Since Publication

InDesign CS5 for Dummies Updates

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InDesign CS4 for Dummies Updates

• Chapter 1: After the book went to press, Adobe changed how the default workspaces handle menu options. In the shipping version, all menus are available in all workspaces by default, so you do not have to turn on the Full Menus option as the book describes. (Now, you only need to use this feature if you customize the menu options in a workspace and later decide you want any deleted menu options back for that workspace.)

InDesign CS3 for Dummies Updates

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InDesign CS2 For Dummies Updates

• The Autocorrect feature does not let you use special characters in its dialog boxes, so you cannot have InDesign automatically replace two hyphens with an em dash.
• Some readers have reported that the coordinates specified in Chapter 2 don't put elements where they expected. That's because of an InDesign feature that's easy to overlook, called control points. In the far left of the Control palette, you'll see nine squares, representing the corners, sides, and center of an oibject. All the coordinates we specify in this chapter are based on the upper left corner of frames and objects, but InDesign lets you base them on other corners, the sides, or the center. If your active control point — that's the one in black — is not the upper left corner, nothing will be positioned where you expect when you follow the instructions in this chapter. Fortunately, it's easy to change the active control point: Just click the one you want to be active, and it will become black (the others become white).

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InDesign For Dummies Series Contents

InDesign CS5 For Dummies | InDesign CS4 For Dummies | InDesign CS3 For Dummies | InDesign CS2 For Dummies

InDesign CS5 For Dummies Contents

Part I: Before You Begin

Chapter 1: Understanding InDesign Ingredients
Chapter 2: Making InDesign Work Your Way

Part II: Document Essentials

Chapter 3: Opening and Saving Your Work
Chapter 4: Discovering How Pages and Layouts Work
Chapter 5: The Joys of Reuse
Chapter 6: Working with Colors

Part III: Object Essentials

Chapter 7: Adding Essential Elements
Chapter 8: Manipulating Objects
Chapter 9: Organizing Objects
Chapter 10: Aligning and Arranging Objects

Part IV: Text Essentials

Chapter 11: Putting Words on the Page
Chapter 12: The Ins and Outs of Text Editing
Chapter 13: The Styles of Text
Chapter 14: Fine-Tuning Paragraph Details
Chapter 15: Finessing Character Details

Part V: Graphics Essentials

Chapter 16: Importing Graphics
Chapter 17: Fitting Graphics and Setting Paths

Part VI: Getting Down to Business

Chapter 18: Working with Tabs and Tables
Chapter 19: Working with Footnotes, Indexes, and TOCs
Chapter 20: Working with Automatic Text
Chapter 21: Publishing Books

Part VII: Print, Presentation, and Web Essentials

Chapter 22: Printing and PDF'ing Your Work
Chapter 23: Web Project Basics
Chapter 24: Presentation Project Basics

Part VIII: The Part of Tens

Chapter 25: Top Ten New Features in InDesign CS5
Chapter 26: Top Ten Resources for InDesign Users

InDesign CS5 For Dummies | InDesign CS4 For Dummies | InDesign CS3 For Dummies | InDesign CS2 For Dummies

InDesign CS4 For Dummies Contents

Part I: Before You Begin

Chapter 1: Understanding InDesign Ingredients
Chapter 2: Making It Work Your Way

Part II: Document Essentials

Chapter 3: Opening and Saving Your Work
Chapter 4: Discovering How Pages Work
Chapter 5: The Joys of Reuse
Chapter 6: Working with Colors

Part III: Object Essentials

Chapter 7: Adding Essential Elements
Chapter 8: Manipulating Objects
Chapter 9: Organizing Objects
Chapter 10: Aligning Objects

Part IV: Text Essentials

Chapter 11: Putting Words on the Page
Chapter 12: The Ins and Outs of Text Editing
Chapter 13: The Styles of Text
Chapter 14: Fine-Tuning Paragraph Details
Chapter 15: Finessing Character Details
Chapter 16: Tricks with Text

Part V: Graphics Essentials

Chapter 17: Importing Graphics
Chapter 18: Fitting Graphics and Setting Paths

Part VI: Getting Down to Business

Chapter 19: Working with Tabs and Tables
Chapter 20: Working with Footnotes, Indexes, and TOCs
Chapter 21: Working with Automatic Text
Chapter 22: Publishing Books

Part VII: Printing and Output Essentials

Chapter 23: Printing and Other Output Techniques
Online Bonus Chapter: Properly Setting Up Your Printer
Chapter 24: Multimedia Project Basics

Part VIII: The Part of Tens

Chapter 25: Top Ten New Features in InDesign CS4
Chapter 26: Top Ten Resources for InDesign Users
Cheat Sheet: Most Useful InDesign Keyboard Shortcuts

InDesign CS5 For Dummies | InDesign CS4 For Dummies | InDesign CS3 For Dummies | InDesign CS2 For Dummies

InDesign CS3 For Dummies Contents

Part I: Before You Begin

Chapter 1: Understanding InDesign Ingredients
Chapter 2: Making It Work Your Way

Part II: Document Essentials

Chapter 3: Opening and Saving Your Work
Chapter 4: Discovering How Pages Work
Chapter 5: Layers and Layers
Chapter 6: The Joys of Reuse
Chapter 7: Working with Colors

Part III: Object Essentials

Chapter 8: Creating Essential Elements
Chapter 9: Manipulating Objects
Chapter 10: Organizing Objects
Chapter 11: Aligning and Arranging Objects

Part IV: Text Essentials

Chapter 12: Putting Words on the Page
Chapter 13: The Ins and Outs of Text Editing
Chapter 14: The Styles of Text
Chapter 15: Fine-Tuning Paragraph Details
Chapter 16: Finessing Character Details
Chapter 17: Tricks with Text

Part V: Graphics Essentials

Chapter 18: Importing Graphics
Chapter 19: Fitting Graphics and Setting Paths

Part VI: Getting Down to Business

Chapter 20: Working with Tabs and Tables
Chapter 21: Working with Footnotes, Indexes, and TOCs
Chapter 22: Working with Automated Text
Chapter 23: Publishing Books

Part VII: Printing and Output Essentials

Chapter 24: Setting Up for Output
Chapter 25: Printing and Other Output Techniques
Online Bonus Chapter: Properly Setting Up Your Printer

Part VIII: The Part of Tens

Chapter 26: Top Ten New Features in InDesign CS3
Chapter 27: Top Ten Resources for InDesign Users
Chapter 28: Top Tens Must-Knows for QuarkXPress Refugees
Chapter 29: Top Ten Must-Knows for PageMaker Orphans
Cheat Sheet: Most Useful InDesign Shortcuts

InDesign CS5 For Dummies | InDesign CS4 For Dummies | InDesign CS3 For Dummies | InDesign CS2 For Dummies

InDesign CS2 For Dummies Contents

Part I: Starting at the Beginning

Chapter 1: Finding Out How InDesign Works
Chapter 2: Taking a Quick Lap around the Track
Chapter 3: Understanding InDesign Ingredients
Chapter 4: Making It Work Your Way

Part II: Document Essentials

Chapter 5: Opening, Viewing, and Saving Your Work
Chapter 6: Discovering How Pages Work
Chapter 7: Layers and Layers
Chapter 8: Doing It Right the First Time
Chapter 9: Publishing Books

Part III: Object Essentials

Chapter 10: Adding Frames, Lines, and Colors
Chapter 11: Manipulating Objects
Chapter 12: Organizing Objects

Part IV: Text Essentials

Chapter 13: Working with Text
Chapter 14: Putting Words on the Page
Chapter 15: Handling Character Details
Chapter 16: Handling Paragraph Details
Chapter 17: Tricks with Text

Part V: Graphics Essentials

Chapter 18: Importing Graphics
Chapter 19: Special Effects with Graphics
Chapter 20: Special Effects with Shapes, Paths, and Text

Part VI: Printing and Output Essentials

Chapter 21: Setting Up to Output
Chapter 22: Printing and Other Output Techniques

Part VII: The Part of Tens

Chapter 23: Top Ten Resources
Chapter 24: Top Ten Must -Knows for QuarkXPress Refugees
Chapter 25: Top Ten Must-Knows for PageMaker Orphans
Cheat Sheet: Best InDesign Shortcuts

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