If you’re working with a particular brand, rather than adding in the relevant colour values every time you start a new document, you can save a group of swatches and load them every time a new project begins. You can watch a tutorial on styling here. Make sure you rename your styles, so they are logical and easy to find. You should use character styles when you want to change individual characters or words within your paragraph styling. Rather than going through and updating all examples manually, you can simply update your paragraph or object style and hey presto, it will change it throughout the entire document. Imagine completing a 50-page document, only for the client to request that all your body copy is increased by 2pts or the call out bubbles to be blue instead of green. It may seem like a bit of a faff to begin with, but if you commit from the very start, to set up your paragraph, character and object styles, it will save you valuable time in the long run. ‘Styles’ are a series of formatting attributes you can apply to text and objects.
You can watch a tutorial on master pages here. This will ensure you’ll never delete, hide or miss a page number off! Make sure you include your page number marker on the top most layer – and lock it – of your master page. As a standard, they are locked in place, meaning you don’t have to worry about things moving or being deleted. You can include different margins and grids, as well as multiple layers, headers, footers and column guides. They allow you to automatically insert layout formats into your document and are ideal for repeated elements. Using master pages will allow you to create a consistent document and save you masses of time.
Our designers have chosen their top 3 tips they wish they knew from the outset when learning InDesign: However, for those starting out, it may seem a little overwhelming. It’s a fairly intuitive programme, and there is absolutely masses of things you can do with it. Adobe InDesign is a fantastic piece of software, and one that we frequently use in the studio for layout of publications and documents.
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