Creating Long Documents with InDesign shows designers how to plan, create, and output book-length documents using InDesign CC features and third-party plugins. Publishing veteran Mike Rankin focuses on long-document elements such as page and chapter numbering, tables of contents, cross-references, and indexes. The course also provides strategies and best practices for document construction, from creating master pages and applying consistent formatting with styles, to placing text and images and outputting to both print and interactive PDF.

Topics include:

• Using automatic numbering for pages, sections, and chapters
• Using text variables for running headers
• Creating templates for InDesign, InCopy, and Word
• Formatting page elements with object styles
• Automating text formatting with nested styles and GREP styles
• Controlling color with swatches
• Building page elements with libraries and snippets
• Performing GREP find/changes
• Tracking changes
• Adding footnotes and indexes
• Using InDesign book files
• Preflighting documents