Objective: 4.01 Utilize core tools and features to lay out visual elements.

Frames: Objects that serve as containers or placeholders in InDesign for text, graphics, and other design elements.

Frame Tools: Tools that will allow you to create frames in InDesign.

Text Tools: Tools that allow you to add text to a project. Horizontal Type, Vertical Type, Vertical Type Mask, Horizontal Type Mask.

Pen Tool: It allows you to create and edit anchor points and paths.

Live Corners: This widget appears when using the Direct Select tool and a corner is selected, when used this will create a rounded corner.

Fill Frame Proportionally: Content will be resized to fill the entire frame while preserving the contents proportions, some portions of the content may not be visible.

Fit Content Proportionally: Content will be resized to fill the entire frame while preserving the contents proportions without cropping the image.

Fit Frame to Content: Frame will be resized to conform to the size of the content.

Fit Content to Frame: Content will be resized to fill the entire frame without regrade to the content’s original proportions.

Objective: 4.02 Select and manipulate text using appropriate typographic settings.

Text Frame: Contains text, can be moved and resized; text can be connected between text frames

Regular Type: Traditional type that is horizontal in a rectangular text box.

Type on a Path: This allows you to add text along any previously created path.

Character Settings: Font Size, Font Style, Alignment, Kerning / Tracking / Leading, Horizontal & Vertical Scale, Using color to enhance readability & hierarchy

Glyphs Panel: An panel that allows you to view and insert any character found within a font family.

Paragraph Settings: Indentation, Alignment, Paragraph spacing, Numbers & bulleted lists, Paragraph Styles

Create Outlines: This command converts text to closed paths and can be found in the Type Menu.

Overflow Text: This occurs when the text box is too small to house all the text and is indicated by a small red plus sign in the bottom right corner of the text box.

Threading Text: This is the ability to create 2 or more text boxes that are linked, when text is added/adjusted in one box, it will affect the other(s).

Text Wrapping: This is when the text in a text box automatically wraps to the next line when it reaches the edge of the box.

Primary Text Flow: Automatically flows text from the design used in one master page to the design used in another without manual intervention.

Text Columns: A vertical division of a text

Special Characters: A collection of common special character that include the copyright symbol and the trademark symbol,

Page Numbers: The number of the page in the design, this can be added on the master page in InDesign and a placeholder that will display the page number on all the pages.

Index markers: Used to mark the location of an index entry, XML tags, hyperlink text and anchors that InDesign uses the location of the marker to produce an accurate bookmark or page reference in the table of contents, index, or exported PDF files.

Break Characters: can be inserted into text and is used to control how text flows into multiple frames. When inserted text is forced into the next column in the current frame, to the next threaded frame, to the next page, or even to the next

Objective: 4.03 Build, manage, and edit selections.

Selection Tools: Different tools that allow the user to select parts of an image.

Direct Selection Tool: Tool allows you to edit individual points within an object or objects within a group.

Page Selection: You can select individual pages from the pages panel or by clicking on the actual page in the document window.

Selecting Frames & Content: Frame types and sizes can be changed and modified. You can also modify the content within a frame by fitting it to the frame in different manners.

Modify & Refining Selections: You can use the select tool or direct select tool to select frames or images within a frame.

Keyboard Modifiers: There are multiple keyboard modifiers when selecting and transforming selections (such as Shift and Control)

Selecting Multiple Objects: You can hold control to select multiple objects on the page or in your document. You can also use InDesign to help select between pages.

Via Selection Tools: You can select multiple objects using the various selection tools.

Via The Layers Panel: You can select multiple objects using the layers panel.

Moving & Grouping Objects: A good way to manipulate multiple objects at the same time is to create a group for those objects.