InDesign Masterclass: Text Techniques: 150 Step-by-Step InDesign Recipes

InDesign Masterclass: Text Techniques: 150 Step-by-Step InDesign Recipes Courseware (BUR-IND150)

InDesign

Unlock the power of InDesign with Pariah Burke’s InDesign Masterclass: Text Techniques—a treasure trove of 150+ step-by-step tutorials and advanced techniques. Transform how you handle text, characters, paragraphs, tables, and more in InDesign.

From essential workflows to show-stopping visual effects, Text Techniques gives you the tools to elevate every project. Whether you’re an InDesign novice or a seasoned designer, you’ll find techniques to improve efficiency, automate processes, and add unique stylistic touches to your documents.

Inside You’ll Discover:

  • Recipes for text effects like character and paragraph stylization, custom tab and leader designs, and advanced table formatting.
  • Practical tricks to streamline your work, from automatic numbering and GREP styles to unique cast shadow effects and side-head setups.
  • Advanced table formatting techniques, including alternating fills, header rows that change between pages, and innovative cell shapes.
  • Expert-level tips to make every aspect of your text work shine, from consistent brand styling to dynamic text designs.

Put these powerful recipes to work and watch your projects reach new heights!

Publisher: Pariah Burke

Benefits

  • Ready-to-teach material: Use 150 step-by-step tutorials as classroom lessons, demonstrations, hands-on exercises, or student assignments.
  • Flexible course use:Teach it as a standalone InDesign text-techniques class or incorporate individual lessons into beginner, intermediate, or advanced InDesign courses.
  • More engaging InDesign training: Turn otherwise dry text-formatting lessons into practical, visual, hands-on techniques students can immediately use.
  • Less course-development time: Build lessons, labs, workshops, and add-on modules from proven material instead of creating every example from scratch.
  • Useful for multiple skill levels: Choose simpler tutorials for newer users and more advanced techniques for experienced designers, production artists, and publishing teams.
  • Stronger student takeaways:Students leave with practical, job-relevant skills for formatting text, improving consistency, speeding up production, and creating more exciting InDesign documents.
  • New revenue opportunities: Use the material to create specialty workshops, “beyond the basics” classes, private team training, or premium advanced InDesign offerings.

Teaching This Course

The publisher has provided details here on how to teach this InDesign Masterclass: Text Techniques: 150 Step-by-Step InDesign Recipes course.

Outline

  1. Chapter 1: Character Recipes
    1. Highlight Text at the Character Level
    2. Highlighter Colors
    3. Round End Text Highlighter
    4. Automatic Hyperlink Character Style
    5. Better Hyperlink Underlining
    6. Anti-Collision Hyperlink Underlining
    7. Differentiate Kinds of Hyperlinks
    8. Hyperlink to an Email Address
    9. Hyperlink to a Phone Number
    10. Hyperlink to Send a Text Message
    11. Hyperlink to Anywhere
    12. Overscoring
    13. Redacted Text Effect
    14. Botched Faux Redacted Text
      1. Slash by Hash (Underline) Faux Redaction
      2. Multi-line (Strikethrough) Faux Redaction
      3. Red Diamond (Strikethrough) Faux Redaction
      4. Whiteout (Strikethrough) Faux Redaction
      5. Blackish (Underline) Faux Redaction
  2. Chapter 2: Paragraph Recipes
    1. Reversed, or Negative, Titles
    2. Reversed Titles without Shading
    3. Paragraph (Faux) Redacting
    4. Paragraph Highlighting
    5. Dyslexic-Friendly, Readability-Enhancing
      Paragraph Highlighting
    6. Cast Shadows
    7. Cast Shadows Forward
    8. Dynamic Text Cast Shadows
    9. Cast Multiple Shadows
    10. Vertical Side Heads with Tables
    11. Vertical Side Heads without Tables
    12. Vertical Threaded Side Heads
    13. Get a List of Only Your Story’s Headings
    14. Add a Number Before Headings
    15. Add a Symbol Before Headings
    16. Add a Different Color Symbol Before Headings
    17. Create an Outline Structure from Paragraphs
    18. Add a Placed Image Before Headings (Manually)
    19. Add Different Placed Images Before Headings
    20. Add a Placed Image Before Headings (via JavaScript)
  3. Chapter 3: Heading Rules
    1. Simple Rule Below
    2. Simple Rule Above
    3. Short Rules Above
    4. Multiple Rules Above
    5. Multi-Colored Rules
    6. Boxed Paragraph
    7. Angled Box Paragraph
    8. Scalloped Box Paragraph
    9. Rules on Two Sides
    10. Rules Up to Headings
    11. Rules Up to Headings (Better)
    12. File Tab Headings
    13. File Tab Headings (Filled)
    14. File Tab Headings (Filled & Outlined)
    15. Filled Box with Floating Title 1
    16. Filled Box with Floating Title 2
    17. Sci-Fi Code Display
    18. Outdent Headings 1 (a.k.a. Hanging Heads)
    19. Outdent Headings 2
    20. Outdent Headings 3
    21. Hanging Drop Caps 1
    22. Hanging Drop Caps 2
    23. Layering Drop Caps, Nested Style, and Nested Line Style
    24. Alternating Paragraph Formatting
    25. Paragraph Alternating Line Formatting
    26. Locate Used Paragraph Styles
  4. Chapter 4: GREP Recipes
    1. Format Figure and Table References
    2. (Subtly) Callout Out a Brand Name Automatically
    3. Call Out Many Names & Terms
    4. Creating a Case-Insensitive GREP Style
    5. Automatically Small Cap Acronyms & Abbreviations
    6. Apply Highlight or Redaction Automatically
    7. Apply OpenType Fractions to All Typed Fractions
    8. Ignore Everything Before
    9. Styling Words That May Have Diacritics
    10. Removing Runts and Short Ends of Paragraphs
    11. Highlighting Consecutive Paragraph Returns
    12. Automatically Formatting Quotation Marks
    13. Formatting Email Addresses
    14. Formatting Web URLs
    15. Formatting Dates and Times
  5. Chapter 5: Tab Recipes
    1. Equal Width Spacing without Tabs
    2. Create Many Tab Stops in Two Clicks
    3. Striped Tab-Separated Lists
    4. Align On Decimals, Even When They’re Missing
    5. Loose Tab Dot Leaders
    6. Looser Tab Dot Leaders
    7. Better Loose Tab Dot Leaders
    8. Smaller Tab Dot Leader Dots
    9. Non-Round Tab Dot Leader Dots
    10. Automatically Format Tabs
    11. Make Underscores with Tabs 1
    12. Make Underscores with Tabs 2
    13. Dash Leaders the Right Way
    14. Colored Leaders
    15. Faded Leaders
    16. Radial Gradient Leaders
    17. Double-Up Gradient Leaders
    18. Want Perfect Right-Aligned Tabs?
      Then Don’t Use Tabs
  6. Chapter 6: Table Recipes
    1. Format an Entire Table in One Click
    2. Different Header Row(s) on the First Page of a Table
    3. Create Alternating Row Fills
    4. Starting Alternating Row Fills with an Empty Fill
    5. Stroking or Filling All Rows, Columns, or Cells
    6. Add Row Headers
    7. Add a Total Column
    8. Elegant Monochrome Tables
    9. Transparency in Table Row Fills 1
    10. Transparency in Table Row Fills 2
    11. Transparency in Table Row Fills 3
    12. Gradient-Filled Table
    13. Rounded Corner Table
    14. Rounded Corner Table Cells
    15. Tabbed Comparison Table
    16. Complex Non-Rectangular Tables
    17. Round Table Cells
    18. Triangular Table Cells
    19. Triangular Table Cells with Text
    20. Rounded Ends of Rows
  7. Chapter 7: Document Recipes
    1. Modifying InDesign Defaults
    2. Make Italic, Bold, and More Character Styles
      Automatically Available in Every New Document
    3. Import and Export User Settings
    4. InDesign in Your Pocket
    5. Resetting Preferences
    6. See and Count How Many Lines and Words are Overset
    7. Just Count How Many Lines and Word are Overset
    8. Prevent Hyphenation of Everyone’s Name
    9. Adding “Don’t Hyphenate” to a List in Batch (in InDesign or InCopy)
    10. Adding “Don’t Hyphenate” to a List in Batch (in Microsoft Word)
    11. Adding “Don’t Hyphenate” to a List in Batch (in Excel)
    12. Making User Dictionaries Travel with Documents
    13. Automatically Format Text as Text Frames are Created
    14. Fix Hyphenation on All Compound Words
    15. Sort a Comma-Separated List
    16. Automatically Restart Numbered Lists
    17. Insert Final Page Number
    18. Insert Text Variable with Keyboard Shortcut
    19. Conditional Images and Objects
    20. Condition Assignment by Language
    21. Language Assignment by Condition
    22. Condition by Price
    23. Fill Type with Imagery
    24. Fill Type with Type
    25. Fill Every Character of Type
    26. Fill Type Counters
    27. Blur Text in InDesign
    28. Two-Click Formatting of an Entire Document

Required Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of Adobe InDesign. The techniques in this course can be taught on its own or as part of any level of InDesign class.

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