Using InDesign Manual 2025

CREATE A PARENT (MASTER) BOOK Note: To do all exercises, the Walsworth Enhancements from Support Download must be installed on each workstation, and the Using InDesign Activities folder must be copied to your desktop from Support Download. This exercise is for the adviser or for a designated administrator, such as a co-adviser or an editor in-chief. You want as few people as possible with access to the Parent Book so that items on it do not accidentally get changed or deleted. Create the following sample yearbook: 1. Open a new spread by clicking the New Spread button on the Control Center and create a new document with these characteristics. { In the Page Range window, uncheck the Maintain document length box, then make the starting page 1 and the ending page 19 . Click OK . { Click the Select Sig button to select all pages. { Click on 4/C , click on +Formula and add the following Formula Colors: F0200, F0700, F0800, F1500, F3350, F4000, F4500, F4860 and F4900. { Click Add Chosen Formula Colors . { Click Apply Color Information . { Save the file as ParentBook.indd in your _IDPractice > D1 folder located on your hard drive. { With the ParentBook.indd file still open, change the folio text on all pages to “Potpourri.” Remember to follow the A-Parent process as described in the Lesson 4 background reading. Zoom in to the folio text, at about 600%, and then use the Type tool to modify the folio text. { Use the master overrides command to make the folio copy different on several spreads. See “Editing Parent Pages” in the Lesson 4 background reading. 2. You design the spread on pages 8 and 9 , but it needs to contain: { The background image named background 2.jpg . { A 60-point, two-word headline, with the word “Stylish” in AWPCSnowWriteBold in the color Paper on page 8, and the word “Statement” in AWPCTimesBoldItalic in Formula Color F0800 on page 9.

{ Place body copy homecoming.txt , which can be found in the Using InDesign > Lesson 4 folder on your desktop. Set the copy in 12-point type with 14-point leading. Use an AWPC font of your choice, with a three-line drop cap. { Draw an object box in the middle of the body copy

and use text wrap to flow the text around the box. To do this, open the Text Wrap palette from Window > Text Wrap . Click on Wrap around bounding box.

{ Apply a 30-degree rotation to the box you just drew. { Use column guides and your own eyes to draw image

windows at the proper size for your page size. { Create captions and use

Placeholder Text. 3. Create pages 10-15 as mug pages using Portrait Center > Flow Portraits. { Create these pages so they have 20 oval shaped windows per page. { Student names to be flowed on to these pages are in the ninth.txt file, which can be found on the Using InDesign > Lesson 4 folder on your desktop. 4. You design the spread on pages 16 and 17 , but it needs to contain: { A 20-point headline using a Formula Color of your choice. { Three picture boxes, one in the shape of a five-sided star. { Two captions. 5. You design the spread on pages 18 and 19 using any page design from a yearbook. This also can be a layout that other students from your school have drawn, or a layout you have chosen from a sample book. 6. Click File > Save As > ParentBook.indd and save it to the _IDPractice > Lesson 4 folder on your hard drive. 7. Close the ParentBook.indd file.

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