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National Post
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Newscycle Solutions
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ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE BASIC
The InDesign Workspace
Getting to know InDesign's frame-based workflow
Setting up a document and working with pages
Master and child pages
Working with objects & layers
Grids and automated gaps
Flowing text, threading, linking, applying styles
Automate flowing text on ensuing pages
Inserting special characters, creating tab charts, using leaders
Story Editor, dictionary, spell checking, tracking changes
Find/Change, GREP, using Scripts
Working with typography
Spanning and splitting columns
Working with Color, Tints, Gradients and custom color spaces
Importing and modifying graphics
Effective and actual resolutions
Creating object styles that cascade to automate other styles
Creating intelligent text styles and object styles
Manipulate appearance with alpha and paths
Transparency and FX
Creating Tables
Cell styles and Table styles
Creating and managing a Table of Contents
Gridify Mode
END USER TRAINING
Newscycle Content Workbenches
Navigation and Workflow States
Mastering Saved Search
Budget and Story Planning
Wire News and Wire Photos Essentials
Peer Update Status / Jump to Newest Version
Making Briefs
Linking Photos to Articles / Articles to Pages
Article Corrections Workflow
Create Article Template
Edit Notifications (subscribing to breaking news and article changed status)
Integrated Image Processing
Article Workflow in InDesign: Link to Template; Jump Essentials; Create on Page; Updates
Understanding Database-Aware Articles from Dead Text
Comprehensive Use of Layout Geometries
Creating Standalone Photos — InCopy or InDesign
Comprehensive Understanding of Channel Workflow
Zoning Articles for Multiple Publications
Replating Pages
Advance Page Workflow
Recalling an Article Version
Understanding the History of a File
Undeleting Content in the Database
Vector-Graphics Workflow
SUPER USER TRAINING
System vs Product Settings
Dependencies and links
in the Database
Working knowledge of
NCS Content Admin
User account management; Groups & permissions
Managing and Creating an Agency
Robot essentials
Understanding template management within the database
Create, import and manage
styles from Adobe
Create and manage Formats
Understanding the Format Menu
Understanding Element Types
Publishing / Disabling Formats
Library Build Essentials
Layout Geometry Essentials
Understanding the Saxo Manager configuration
How to configure and create Autotext
CUSTOM DOCUMENTATION
"WRITING YOUR OWN MANUAL BEFORE YOU'RE AN EXPERT ... NOT ADVISED."
NEWSCYCLE END USERS
ADOBE INDESIGN
A fully illustrated manual, approved by your organization, is an essential element to supporting what you have trained on. And it serves as a training device for new employes.
This reference guide is less than 100 pages and shortcuts the nearly 1,000-page manual by Adobe. More than that, it's a hyperlinked pdf — easily searchable.
