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BASIC EDITING
TEXT
CHANGING
IMAGES
CHANGING
COLORS

HELP
This is a short guide to getting the most Find the text you want to 1 Click on an image to select it.
1 change. Then click on the Type
basic changes done in your downloaded
Indesign document. For more in-depth Tool in the left tool bar.
Indesign tips and training, please search Go to the Swatches panel. If it is
online for Indesign video tutorials. 1
not already visible in your right
Or get an account at Lynda.com — I can side bar, go to:
highly recommend their online video
courses. They have extensive video tuto- Window –> Color –> Swatches
rials, in for example “Indesign Essential (or press F5).
Training”.
Press Ctrl+D (Command+D on a
2 Mac) to replace the image. Chose
Please note:
This help file is a general file I have made Click the text with the Type your image from your harddrive
for my Indesign templates. The shown 2 cursor you now have selected, and click Open.
screenshots are not necessarily the same delete theexisting text in the text
colors and images as in your downloaded frame, and type your own.
Indesign file, however the steps and things
to do are the same.
Double click the color you’d like to
Please also note: 2 change. The Swatch Options
The exact placement of the functions
window now appears. Type in the
in Indesign might vary, depending on
Your new image is now inserted. CMYK numbers for your new col-
which version of Indesign you are using. 3 You can scale it by chosing the or – or drag the sliders on the four
These screenshots are from Indesign CS 6.
Direct Selection tool from the left color bars. Click OK when you are
tool bar, clicking the image, and happy with your selection.
then moving it inside the frame.
Grab the corner handles to scale
it – hold down the Shift key on
your keyboard, to make sure the
aspect ratio does not change.
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 BASIC
CREATING MOVING PREVIEW /
NEW PAGES SPREADS NORMAL VIEW

HELP
The easiest way to create more 1 To move pages - or a spred, go to
1 pages, is to duplicate an existing your pages panel. If it’s not
spread. In your pages panel (if already visible in the top right
it’s not already visible in the top corner of the screen, go to Win-
right corner of the screen, go to dow -> Pages or press F12.
Window -> Pages or press F12).
EDITING
FOOTER TEXT
If your document is in preview mode
when you open it, you might want to
switch to normal view, to see the bleed.
You can switch between preview and
normal mode by going to
Now select the pages or the
2 spread (two pages together) you’d View -> Screen mode in your top menu.
Now select two pages (a spread) like to move, by clicking on them
2 that you would like to duplicate in the pages panel. Then click
Double click on master page. by clicking on them, and click this icon , and chose move
1 Then you able to change all this icon in the right corner pages.
text with your own text and of the pages panel, and then
save. select “Duplicate pages” .

The pages are now copied and

3 placed at the end of the docu-
ment. However, you will proba-
bly like to move them, so that the In the window that now appears,
back page is still the last page in 3 chose where you’d like to move
your document. So please follow them, to change the pages order.
the steps in the next coloum, You can even move them to an-
called “Moving spreads”. other open Indesign document.
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