From the course: InDesign 2020 Essential Training

Using the exercise files - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign 2020 Essential Training

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Using the exercise files

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- [Instructor] Before we jump in and start learning about InDesign's features and how to use them, let me say a quick word about the files that you'll see me using. If you have access to the exercise files for this course, you can download them to your desktop. Now, those files have been broken down into chapters. And if you're following along, it's important to open the correct file for each chapter. Many of these files have the same or similar name but are, in fact, significantly different in order to show off or discuss particular features in the program. To open a document, simply double click on it. If you see a dialogue box like this that says there are modified links, go ahead and click Update Modified Links. But if the message says the links are missing, then you can click Don't Update Links, because those files probably aren't necessary for this particular exercise. You may also see a dialogue box that says you're missing fonts. As an Adobe Creative Cloud subscriber, you should be able to click the Activate button to automatically download and install the fonts for the document. Or, you could use the find font feature to replace them with fonts that you already have on your system. Also, I should point out that if you open a file and you see the word converted in the title bar, that just indicates that you've opened the file in a slightly newer version of InDesign than the one I created it in. It's not a problem and you can work with the file exactly the same way I do in the movie. Now, one more thing about these files. At the end of each movie, after you've moved things or changed the file, you should go to the File menu and choose Revert. That's what I do so you'll see a nice file at the beginning of each movie. And the reason I do this is so that you can jump right to any movie you want and you won't be lost, even if it's in the middle of a chapter. Now, there is one exception to this and that's in chapter one, where each movie does build on where we left off in the previous movie. On the other hand, if you don't have access to the exercise files, you can still learn by either just watching what I do or by following along using your own text and image files.

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