How do you change the tabs in Adobe InDesign?
Lesson 72 from: Adobe InDesign FundamentalsDaniel Walter Scott
How do you change the tabs in Adobe InDesign?
Lesson 72 from: Adobe InDesign FundamentalsDaniel Walter Scott
Lesson Info
72. How do you change the tabs in Adobe InDesign?
Lessons
Overview
1InDesign Tutorial Basics Class Introduction
01:50 2Exercise files & Projects
02:39 3What Does Adobe InDesign do?
01:34 4What are the differences between InDesign and PageMaker, Illustrator, Photoshop, Quark?
05:10PROJECT 1: One page flyer
5How to change MM to Inches & changing UK to US dictionary in InDesign?
01:39 6New document in InDesign - what is bleed & slug?
08:08How to create your own RGB & CMYK colors in Adobe InDesign
08:39 8How do I steal colors from a logo using InDesign?
03:14 9How to color the background of a page in InDesign?
03:33 10Importing resizing rotating & flipping images & Logos inside InDesign
07:53 11How to Import text from Microsoft Word into Adobe InDesign
05:46 12How to group, ungroup & rotate images in Adobe InDesign
05:12 13How to make a dotted line, dashed line & borders in InDesign
05:20 14How best to preview your work in Adobe InDesign
05:16 15How to make a simple PDF from InDesign
06:43 16How to save your InDesign file as a JPEG
03:18 17Why should I use CC Libraries in InDesign?
05:08 18How to share your InDesign files with others by using package document
04:26 19Class Exercise 1
03:24 20Quiz - One Page Flyer
PROJECT 2: Other people's files
21Ideas, Inspiration & starter templates
04:59 22Working with other people's InDesign documents, missing images
03:12 23How to find missing fonts in InDesign?
04:27 24How to replace images in InDesign?
01:30 25Opacity, transparency and see through ness in Adobe InDesign
02:29 26Why is InDesign adding [Converted] and making me 'save as'
01:06 27What if I can’t find the InDesign file - can I open the PDF?
02:37 28Quiz - Other people's files
PROJECT 3: Company Newsletter/Brochure
29Creating a new company newsletter or brochure, what are spreads in InDesign
06:58 30How to use a Master Page in Adobe InDesign
05:33 31How do to add automatic page numbering to a InDesign file
04:11 32Removing a master page & deleting parts off the master page in InDesign
02:30 33Production Video 1
02:53 34What is Effective PPI & Image resolution in the InDesign links panel
06:52 35How to add drop shadows to an image or logo in InDesign
04:20 36What is TypeKit used for in Adobe InDesign?
08:37 37How to add the Copyright, Registered & Trademark symbols in InDesign
05:08 38Where can I find the different versions of letters in InDesign - Ligatures.
03:35 39How to add placeholder text & lorem ipsum & get a word count in InDesign
03:04 40Importing Text from Microsoft Word & keeping or removing the formatting
02:58 41Creating Columns in a text box using Adobe InDesign
01:46 42How do I justify text & turn off hyphenation in InDesign?
03:59 43What is the space after & leading in Adobe InDesign?
05:22 44How to underline text with a full width line in Adobe InDesign?
01:53 45How do I make a paragraph style in Adobe InDesign?
06:06 46How do I update a Paragraph Style in Adobe InDesign?
04:28 47How to use Find & Change to remove double spaces after a period or full stop.
02:37 48Stealing colours from images, is there a format painter in Adobe InDesign?
03:09 49InDesign Class Exercise 2 - Magazine Spread
04:22 50Quiz - Company Newsletter/Brochure
PROJECT 4: Long Business Document
51How to bring in lots of text into InDesign at once
08:11 52How do I import paragraph styles from another document
12:45 53How do I insert completely blank pages in Adobe InDesign
02:03 54How do I create a gradient in Adobe InDesign
07:20 55Do I need to use layers in Adobe InDesign
05:29 56Opacity advanced, mater marks and Transparency Effects in Adobe InDesign
04:24 57How do I add rounded corners to an image or box in Adobe InDesign?
02:52 58How to add a large first letter to my text aka Drop Cap
02:16 59How do I increase the space between letters in Adobe InDesign aka Tracking or Kerning
02:32 60How do I get text to move around an image or shape using text wrap
03:57 61Why can’t I put text over anything that has text wrap applied?
03:25 62How to draw an arrow or triangle or star in Adobe InDesign
06:40 63How do I put an image inside other shapes like a circle - cropping
02:47 64What is Adobe Stock
04:17 65Where can I find free images & icons that I can use for my business
04:23 66How do I add bullets and numbered lists in Adobe InDesign?
00:51 67How can I create a table inside Adobe InDesign?
07:10 68How do I convert tables from Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel into Adobe InDesign
04:26 69How do I get images to move with the text in Adobe InDesign using anchored objects?
03:22 70How do I create a Line Break, Column Breaks & Page Breaks in Adobe InDesign?
04:16 71How do I make an automatic table of contents in Adobe InDesign?
04:46 72How do you change the tabs in Adobe InDesign?
04:30 73Can I change the numbering of my pages so 1 starts later in the InDesign file?
03:26 74Quiz - Long Business Document
PROJECT 5: Conference Name Badge
75How do I combine Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in InDesign?
09:04 76CLASS EXERCISE: Create your own business card
01:16 77Quiz - Conference Name Badge
What next
78How to create a mockup for your portfolio using InDesign
04:07 79InDesign cheat sheet & shortcuts
12:45 80BONUS: Software Updates
40:41 81What to do after this InDesign tutorial class?
01:07 82Quiz - What Next
Final Quiz
83Final Quiz
Lesson Info
How do you change the tabs in Adobe InDesign?
Hi there in this video we're going to look at tabs and in our case there's tabs in here but we want them to go from this to this, we're also gonna add leader dots as well. Okay, so let's go and do that now in this tutorial. Okay. To make tabs work first thing you need to do if if you're zoomed in and you can't see the top, see there's the top of my text box if I can't see that. Okay, it's gonna go a little bit wrong. So I'm gonna go up to type and go to tabs tabs. I love in design, I am a Fanboy of in design tabs is probably the hardest thing to use in here and probably not really greatly implemented. I like the way we do it okay, where it just ties it into this ruler on the top. But anyway, type hit tabs because I can't see the top of that box. Watch what happens. Okay, just kind of like randomly pairs in the middle of the page, not actually connected to the type box, you can you can see how the scroll up a little bit so I can see it and you can hit this little magnetic button here an...
d it will stick to the top. Okay, so just make sure you can see the top of the box, otherwise it can be really troublesome. So what I'd like to do is with my type too. I'm going to highlight all of the bits that I want to work with. Now there is actually a tab in between these, that's what the table of contents does for us. Okay so we just want to because you can see it's kind of lining up but there's not enough room so we want to put the tab way out here. So I've highlighted at all, I've gone to my magnetic button so it lines up and all you need to do is click in this that's slightly lighter gray area. It's a little bit difficult to explain but you can see where my arrow is wiggling back and forth. Okay, I want to click in there once you can see they all align up. Cool, you can move it around. Okay click and drag it a little bit. If it's not in the right place. The one thing you might find is you'll accidentally, if you don't clicking exactly on that tiny little blue arrow and you click just here, you can see you get two of them, you end up playing around with two of them and if you want to get rid of one, just click on it and delete on your keyboard. Don't do that, don't do that, click hold and drag it off. Okay and it will disappear. Cool so the next thing we need to do is I want to mess around with say the it's a little bit hard because these numbers are so far away, I want to add some dots like we saw at the beginning of this video and they're called leader dots and what you do is you highlight all of our text like we have, you need to make sure that the tab you're working with is highlighted. Mine is not click on this, it goes blue then where it says leader. You put in a full stop okay. Or a period hit enter. Okay. And you got these little dots that rushed across the page to join up the number. You can have other things I can put an underscore. Okay, now I find this a bit a little bit troublesome. Okay on the pro and I still can't make it work now. I think this might be just my version. I hope it is. You can I'm hoping you just delete this period. Okay. And type in and underscore what's happening for me is it's deleting all my text. Why is that happening? I'm not quite sure. I've played around with us a couple of times and it's still doing it. I'm sure with the next fix it it'll be fine. Okay, so let's try it one more time. I'm going to close down the tabs, I'm leaving this in here because tabs are a little bit fiddly at the moment. There are extra fiddly. So if you're finding them quite troublesome, it's not you, it's in design. Okay. Type tabs back open, click on that guy there to select them all again, grab you, make sure he selected, go to leader. I'm going to change it for an underscore hit return and it's working so you might have to close it go back in. Okay. I've used an underscore so you can see just a line joining them all. Okay, it's up to you what you'd like to do. I'm going to slip them all turn them back into a leader dot and it worked perfect. You can actually have anything like I'm not gonna do it. You can type in anything there of course. Okay, so underscores hyphens anything you want to kind of join those up. Last thing to do before we leave tabs close this guy down is we've actually changed the paragraph style here. I know we kind of haven't changed the front but we've added these leader dots and we've played with tabs and they were all included in the paragraph style. Like in the last video we looked at whenever you change it, you need to update the talk body. Okay? So let's go and open up window. Let's go and open up styles, paragraph styles and what we'll do is highlight it. All right, click talk. You gotta right click it. Okay and go to redefine style. That means that if I update my table of contents, it's going to add these leader dots back in and the tab. Otherwise it'll reset back to where it was on the left. Alright. That's going to be us for tabs
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Ratings and Reviews
Jerome Clark
I think Dan is very good at explaining and breaking down complex content. I like the way there are lots of small sessions which is good for keeping focus. I would advise anyone who does this course and is taking notes to label which session the notes are referring to as I have struggled to find a few looking back and this helped me. It really made me realise how much I didn't know and had been fudging. Thank you Dan I will be taking plenty more of your courses in the coming months it's been a great help.
Giuseppe Lipari
Excellent course, instructor is great well spoken, clear and a great teacher. I highly recommend this class for beginners and those who learned indesign on their own.