Training Materials for Radiqx Academy Training Materials for our Apprentices

Some of the things
you need to complete
before you get to work

Here are some shortcuts you need to add

These are not found in the default set:

You will gradually add several more. Although we must confess that we are using a right-click because most of the things we need are found in the contextual menus

Setting up Default styles tutorial

You need to be able to set up default styles to begin design production. you'll modify these as you grow in knowledge, but you have to start somewhere.

Here are books & products you'll need

Links to graphic references

Publishing With InDesign: 2nd Edition
Simple Form: Chapter 7

More complex form samples
to build in InDesign

Side by Side Mechanic's Form
Round Corners Form
complete instructions are found in this book: Adobe InDesign CS4: Styles & Forms
Normal & Sinister workspaces (CS4)
Lefty workspace for CS5

Here are a ZIPped pair of workspaces on CS4, one for left-handed people and another for right-handed designers. They will give you a starting point. Just drag the decompressed .xml workspace files into the Workspaces folder in your InDesign CS4 preferences folder.

The path to that on a Mac is <User>/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version 7.0/en_US/Workspaces — of course, this assumes Macs, Leopard, and CS5.

<User>/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version 6.0/en_US/Workspaces — of course, this assumes Macs, Leopard, and CS4.

The path will be similar for CS3.

A left-handed shortcut set (CS4)
A left-handed set for CS5

This is a very basic one with the important ones we have used (in our opinion). Hopefully, it will give you left-handed designers a place to start.