Customizing the InDesign Interface and New Document Settings

Welcome to Designing the InDesign Way. In this book, we will teach you a wide range of practical hands-on techniques that will make you more efficient in InDesign and allow you to create standards-compliant content quickly and efficiently.

In this chapter, we will discover how to use the InDesign interface to ensure you are working efficiently in InDesign. To do this, we will be looking at the settings you need to apply when creating new documents to ensure your documents can be output without any problems.

Here, you will learn how to open and reposition panels, as well as how to customize the InDesign menus, ensuring the interface is well suited to your style of working. We will also look at how to save your interface changes into a workspace, which can then be used to easily reset the interface whenever things get a bit messy.

As we progress through the chapter, you will learn how to use rulers and guides to ensure...