InDesign Masterclass: Type & Tables: 2025 Edition

by Pariah Burke

Become a (respected, marketable, inspiring) master of Adobe InDesign!Ready to elevate your InDesign expertise? InDesign Type & Tables is the definitive guide for all skill levels—from beginners to experts—aimed at making you a true master of InDesign’s core text. Building on the success of InDesign Text Techniques, 150+ Step-by-Step InDesign Recipes, this book takes a deep dive into every essential aspect of text handling and table creation in Adobe InDesign.

In this comprehensive masterclass, you’ll unlock professional skills to maximize your productivity, streamline your workflow, and bring creative visions to life with text and table formatting like never before. From foundational concepts to advanced techniques, you’ll learn how to create, style, and control text frames, columns, character formatting, and paragraph settings with precision. Plus, discover the power of table styling, dynamic OpenType features, and complex typography—skills that will set you apart in any publishing or design role.

Packed with practical tutorials, advanced tips, and hands-on examples, InDesign Type & Tables by Pariah Burke is more than a reference; it’s a career-enhancing toolkit that will make you indispensable in your current job and more marketable for future job opportunities. No matter where you start, this book will take you further in your journey to InDesign mastery.

Are you ready to join the ranks of InDesign Masters? Start your journey with InDesign Type & Tables and transform your design skills today!Table of ContentsChapter 1: Text FramesCreating Text FramesGetting Text into Text FramesColumnsChapter 2: CharactersOpenType FeaturesSpecial CharactersCharacter FormattingSpecial Font FormattingCharacter TransformingChapter 3: ParagraphsParagraph ShapesTabsText VariablesParagraph CompositionParagraph DecorationChapter 4: TablesCreating and Importing TablesWorking in TablesAdding and Editing Table ContentRemoving Columns and RowsSizing Columns and RowsMerging and SplittingHeader and Footer RowsStyling TablesOverall Table StylingColumn and Row Strokes and FillsAlternating Strokes or FillsCell OptionsChapter 5: StylesParagraph StylesCharacter StylesAI-Assisted StylingNested StylesGREP StylesTable StylesSharing and Loading StylesStyle ShortcutsQuick ApplyChapter 6: StoriesThreading & UnthreadingAutoflowing TextLists, and Numbers, and Bullets (Oh, My!)Word Footnotes, Endnotes, and Cross- Referen

Kindle Edition

Published November 13, 2024

About the author

Pariah Burke is a creative professional trainer and a design, publishing, and digital publishing workflow expert and consultant whose passion is empowering, informing, and connecting creative professionals around the world (http://workflowCreative.com). Pariah has over 20 years’ experience as a graphic and publication designer, is an Adobe Community Professional, and was the trainer and technical lead for Adobe’s technical support teams for InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, and Photoshop. A prolific author, Pariah literally wrote the book and the curriculum for learning and teaching digital publishing from InDesign, ePublishing with InDesign (http://iamPariah.com/books), wrote the first book for experienced InDesign users, Mastering InDesign for Print Design and Production, has authored and co-authored other books on epublishing, Creative Suite, Adobe Illustrator, and QuarkXPress, and has published more than 450 tutorials and articles (http://iamPariah.com/articles). He is the co-author of InDesign, InCopy, and Illustrator Adobe Certified Expert exams, the tests Adobe administers to gauge the skill levels of InDesign and Illustrator instructors and experts. Pariah is also the host of a series of digital publishing, epublishing, and the business of design webinars (http://iamPariah.com/webinars) and the publisher of a network of websites for creative professionals, the Workflow: Network (http://workflownetwork.com). When not traveling, Pariah lives in the greater Boston area where he writes (a lot) and creates (many) projects and publications Empowering and Informing Creative Professionals™.