From the course: InDesign 2023 Essential Training

Using the exercise files - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign 2023 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. The 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. Now, if you see a dialogue box like this one that says there are modified links, then go ahead and click the update links button. But if the image says that 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 like this that says "You're missing fonts." As an Adobe Creative Cloud subscriber, you should be able to click the activate button in order to automatically download and install the fonts for the document. Or you could click replace fonts and choose fonts that you have on your system. Also, when you open the files from the exercise folder, you may see some of them appear with the word converted up in the title bar. That just indicates that you've opened the file in a slightly newer version of InDesign than I created it in. It's not a problem, and you can work with a file exactly the same way I do in the movie. Oh, 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, clean file at the beginning of each movie. 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 actually 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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