These tutorials and learning resources from Adobe and community experts will give beginners and experienced users a core overview of Adobe® InDesign® CS5 and CS5.5.
Getting started
Setup
Overview
Tutorials
What's new
CS5.5
- Build digital magazines with InDesign CS5.5 and Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (video 09:06)
- Create more compelling eBooks with InDesign CS5.5
(video 16:11) - Folio Producer Tools (video 1:04)
- Enhanced eBook Authoring (video 1:10)
- Styles mapped to tags in InDesign for improved EPUB export
(video 05:13) - New export options for EPUB (video 05:56)
- Creating covers and title pages for EPUB (video 05:50)
- Controlling order of content export from InDesign to EPUB without changing your layout (video 04:54)
- Using Object Export options to customize how objects and images export to EPUB ( video 05:18)
- Adding audio and video content to EPUB (video 02:46)
CS5
- What's new in CS5 and CS5.5 (HTML)
- Spanning and Splitting columns (video 6:15)
- Paragraphs that span and split columns (video 2:01)
- Creating documents with Interactive features (video 8:06)
- Creating and editing motion presets (video 5:23)
- Mixing page sizes with the new Page tool (video 8:03)
- Exploring new FLA export options (video 6:26)
- Track text changes (video 2:01)
- Selection tool, Gap tool & Live Corner effects (video 5:13)
- Document installed fonts (video 2:29)
- Layers panel (video 2:59)
- Grid Mode and Live Distribute (video 2:48)
- Live Captions (video 3:04)
How-to guides
- Creating accessible PDF documents (PDF, 2.6 MB)
- Adobe Creative Suite 5/5.5 Printing Guide (PDF, 21 MB)
- Setting object export options (PDF, 160 KB)
- Creating rich interactive documents (PDF, 6.7 MB)
- Exporting documents to EPUB (PDF, 265 KB)
- Building a grid of objects quickly (PDF, 100 KB)
- Creating multistate objects (PDF, 203 KB)
- Saving production time (PDF, 148 KB)
- Creating interactive documents in a snap (PDF, 201 KB)
- Linking text stories (PDF, 217 KB)
- Exporting to EPUB for the Apple iBookstore (PDF, 2.5 MB)
- Generating image captions with metadata (PDF, 148 KB)
- Making shiny graphics (PDF, 203 KB)
- Managing documents with multiple page sizes (PDF, 136 KB)
- Mini Bridge: Getting access to your assets (PDF, 180 KB)
- Improving productivity with enhanced UI features (PDF, 227 KB)
Learn more
Work area
- Using the Control panel (video 2:14), CS3-CS5.5
- Using keyboard shortcuts (video 8:36), CS3-CS5.5
- Working with Smart Guides (video 4:04), CS4-CS5.5
- Rotating Spread view (video 3:31), CS4-CS5.5
Layout
- Managing pages (video 3:53), CS3-CS5.5
- Working with master pages (video 3:00), CS3-CS5.5
- Synchronizing master pages (video 2:54), CS3-CS5.5
- Setting pagination (video 3:56), CS3-CS5.5
- Defining Sections (video 4:59), CS3-CS5.5
- Mixing page sizes with the new Page tool (video 8:03)
Text and typography
- Working with text (video 5:51), CS3-CS5.5
- Working with text styles (video 3:36), CS3-CS5.5
- Creating conditional text (video 6:48), CS4-CS5.5
- Applying GREP styles (video 4:46), CS4-CS5.5
- Creating bullets and numbering (video 12:16), CS3-CS5.5
- Creating running headers and footers (video 5:22), CS3-CS5.5
- Finding and changing expressions, text and object formatting
(video 6:38), CS3-CS5.5 - Working with Microsoft Word and Excel tables in InDesign
(video 9:36), CS3-CS5.5 - Creating footnotes (video 2:44), CS3-CS5.5
Tables
Combining text and graphics
- Using the Text Wrap panel (video 5:03), CS3-CS5.5
- Working with anchored objects (video 6:10), CS3-CS5.5
- Live captions (video 3:04)
Importing, exporting, and outputting files
- Importing content into InDesign (video 8:37), CS3-CS5.5
- Creating documents with Interactive features (video 8:06)
- Creating and editing motion presets (video 5:23)
- Exploring new FLA export options (video 6:26)
- Preparing files for output (video 7:09), CS3-CS5
Long documents
- Creating cross-references (video 5:45), CS4-CS5.5
- Creating a table of contents (video 4:15), CS3-CS5.5
- Creating an index (video 3:50), CS3-CS5.5
