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Nothing speeds up learning like personal training from a skilled tutor. With Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One, you get the equivalent of private lessons with author Deke McClelland, a world-renowned expert on digital graphics and design. Deke offers you DVD video with more than two hours of professional instruction and advice to accompany the book's easy-to-follow text. The book itself includes 600 full-color images, diagrams, and screenshots to illustrate every key step.

This highly popularly learning approach is quite simple: "read the book, watch the video, do the exercise". Each chapter has corresponding video lesson that demonstrates the techniques covered. The combination of text and video instruction is uniquely effective. You proceed at your own pace and work on relevant, real-world projects as you master fundamental and advanced concepts, theories, techniques, and best practices for making the most of InDesign.

This comprehensive multimedia training solution teaches you how to:

• Create professional-looking documents with InDesign's powerful text and graphic tools
• Import text from a word processor, move and scale existing text frames, and check spelling
• Use the line, pen, and geometric shape tools to draw complex graphic objects
• Apply fill and stroke, specify process and spot colors, and design custom rules
• Use Adobe Bridge to organize and manage your digital assets
• Import and modify layered artwork from Photoshop and Illustrator
• Create inline graphics and anchored objects that move automatically with your text from one page to the next
• Create, edit, and link paragraph styles, complete with nested character styles
• Apply a sequence of style sheets to format an entire document in one operation
• Build object styles with embedded paragraph styles in order to format entire frames at a time
• Use master pages to automate repeating page features
• Automatically generate a table of contents
• Compose a fully interactive document -- with bookmarks, hyperlinks, buttons, sounds, and movies -- and export your creation to a PDF file that can be played on most computers

Rating : - Great Training Tool
I am a technical writer. A client asked me to update some of the instructions he sends out with his products. However, the documents were created in InDesign, and they needed to stay in that format. I had a copy of InDesign CS3 but I needed to learn the basics of how to use the program in a very short time.

I read the reviews on Amazon, and Deke's book got the most glowing reviews. Now I'm adding my own glowing review.

I bought Deke's book (and CD-ROM). After a long weekend, I was able to create a template, a workable layout, and a functional style sheet. The nice thing about Deke's training approach is that he provides all the practice files for you. Following his step-by-step instructions, I was able to add a few "extras" to the documents including running heads with variable text, anchored graphic frames, and autonumbering captions for those graphics. You might be tempted to skip the first chapter, where Deke shows you his way of setting up the interface. My advice: take the time to do it Deke's way. He knows what he's talking about, and it pays off in the long run.