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Installing the software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Additional resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Adobe certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Checking for updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

1 Introducing the Workspace

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Getting started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Looking at the workspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Working with panels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Customizing the workspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Changing the magnification of a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Navigating through a document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Using context menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Exploring on your own. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Finding resources for using InDesign. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

2 Getting to Know InDesign

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Getting started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Viewing the lesson document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Preflighting as you work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Viewing guides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Adding text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Working with styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Working with graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Working with objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Working with object styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Exploring on your own. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

3 Setting Up a Document and Working with Pages

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Skills

Build Your Skills

As you'll see in this guide, HockeyShot has all kinds of great training aids for taking your ice hockey game to the next level. But most people want to start with the basics--the most obvi-

to mind is shooting the puck. Then you might start thinking -

ing and overall strength and agility. So, sticking with the obvi-

1. A hockey stick, preferably not your on-ice stick 2. A simulated ice surface such as a shooting pad or dryland

3. A puck, training puck or ball Shooting pads work well if you have limited space, as they are easy to move and store. If you're lucky enough to have dedicated space such as a basement or unused garage, the HockeyShot Dryland Flooring Tiles let you create a slippery, smooth, custom surface area for training.

Getting started Shots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Shooting

Want to improve your shot? Shoot 100 pucks per day--or at least shoot for shooting 100 pucks per day! No matter how many

Creating and saving custom document settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 shotsyouactuallytake,practicingyourshotisoneoftheeas-

pad or use your "outdoor" stick, and be careful not to hit anything (cars, windows, passersby). If accuracy is an issue, look into a backstop, cage or shooting tarp.

"You miss 100% of the shots you never take." -- Wayne Gretzky Accuracy... How can my son develop a more accurate shot? He seems to use the goalie as a target, and we all

Creating a new document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 knowit'snotgoingtogothroughhisbody.

Practicing any sport that involves shooting--from archery

hockey, of course, your target is anywhere the goalie is not

are the most likely spots to score, those are generally the targets your son can practice on from home. All you need to do is

? Pockets such as EZ Goal 4 Corner Netting Targets

Switching between open InDesign documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 ?HangingtargetssuchasX-Targets

? A "goalie" tarp such as the Ultimate Goalie

Working with master pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

2 HockeyShot Essentials Guide

Applying master HockeyShotEssentialsGuide 3 pages to document pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Adding new document pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Rearranging and deleting document pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Changing the size of pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Adding sections to change page numbering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Placing text and graphics on document pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Overriding master page items on document pages. . . . . . . . . 76

Viewing the completed spread. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Exploring on your own. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

4 Working with Objects

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Getting started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Working with layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Creating and modifying text frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Creating and modifying graphics frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Adding metadata captions to graphics frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Placing and linking graphics frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Changing the shape of a frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Wrapping text around a graphic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Modifying the shape of frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Transforming and aligning objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Selecting and modifying grouped objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Finishing up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Exploring on your own. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

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Getting started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Flowing text into an existing frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Flowing text manually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Creating text frames while flowing text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Flowing text automatically. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Creating threaded frames automatically. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Resizing text frames automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Adding a jump line page number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Exploring on your own. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

6 Editing Text

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Getting started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Finding and changing a missing font. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Entering and importing text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Finding and changing text and formatting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Checking spelling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Editing text by dragging and dropping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Using the Story Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Tracking changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Exploring on your own. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

7 Working with Typography

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Getting started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Adjusting vertical spacing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Changing fonts and type styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Fine-tuning columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Changing paragraph alignment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Creating a drop cap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Adjusting letter and word spacing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Setting tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Adding a rule above a paragraph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Exploring on your own. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

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Getting started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Managing color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Synchronizing color settings in Adobe Bridge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Specifying color settings in InDesign. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Displaying Paris?Madrid?NewYork images at full resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Proofing colors onscreen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Defining printing requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Creating and applying colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Working with gradients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Creating a tint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Creating a spot color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Applying colors to text and objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Using advanced gradient techniques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Exploring on your own. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

9 Working with Styles

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Creating and applying table and cell styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Globally updating styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Loading styles from another document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Exploring on your own. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

10 Importing and Modifying Graphics

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Getting started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Adding graphics from other programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Comparing vector and bitmap graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

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Managing links to imported files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Updating revised graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Adjusting display quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Working with clipping paths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Working with alpha channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

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