Level 2
InDesign Essentials
Documents, master pages, text frames, images and exporting a print-ready PDF.
$890ex GSTLearn more
Level 1
Adobe
1 day
Adobe InDesign Lite Course
Adobe InDesign Lite at a glance.
- Duration
- 1 day, 9:00am – 4:00pm
- Price
- $650 per person, ex GST — purchase orders welcome
- Delivery
- In person, or live online with a facilitator
- Where
- Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney — or online
- Prerequisite
- None
- Class size
- Small — everyone practises out loud more than once
- You take away
- A printed workbook, exercise files, and your own notes
- In-house
- Available for teams of four or more, at your office or ours
What you'll learn.
- The InDesign interface and workspaces
- Setting up documents, margins and columns
- Placing text and images into frames
- Exporting a print-ready PDF
Course overview.
A single day on the essentials — documents, text frames, images and a print-ready PDF, without the depth of the full Essentials course.
The 1 day works through 8 modules and 94 individual topics, from Finding your way around InDesign to A first look at styles. Each module is taught then practised — you do the thing rather than watch it done — on our exercise files, and on your own where you are able to bring them.
Groups are kept small enough that everyone gets hands on the keyboard, and the facilitator is in the room the whole time rather than dropping in. You leave with the workbook, the exercise files and notes in your own words.
Full course outline.
Every module we cover, and the topics inside each one. This is the same outline as the downloadable PDF — expand a module to see what sits under it.
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1Finding your way around InDesign25 topics
- Versions, operating systems, menus and shortcuts
- Faster ways to use dialog boxes and panels
- The Start workspace explained
- InDesign file types
- A quick tour of the interface
- Setting preferences
- How panels behave
- Choosing a workspace
- What sits in the Tools panel
- What the Control panel does
- Where to find InDesign Help
- The pasteboard and what it is for
- Reaching the context menu
- Zooming and moving the view
- Adding pages and jumping between them
- Display performance settings
- Switching document tabs
- Reference points on the Control panel
- Selecting and moving a frame
- Resizing a frame
- Selecting text on the page
- Turning on hidden characters
- Switching screen modes
- Undo, redo and revert
- Saving your work
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2Starting a document15 topics
- Recommended workflow
- Colour: RGB or CMYK
- A look at the New Document dialog
- Margins and margin guides
- Setting up columns
- Adding bleed
- Choosing a page size
- Changing the document setup
- Adjusting margins and columns
- Saving a document preset
- Reading the document rulers
- Pulling out ruler guides
- What smart guides do
- Making and reusing templates
- Adding and removing pages
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3Placing text and graphics16 topics
- Getting text onto the page
- Fitting the frame to its text
- Text selection methods
- Dropping in placeholder text
- Placing a text file
- Importing an image
- Resizing frames and images
- Fitting options for images
- Repositioning an image inside its frame
- Placing several images at once
- Laying images out in a grid (Gridify)
- Drawing shapes
- Corner effects on frames
- Rotating text, images and shapes
- Grouping items together
- Object stacking order
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4Graphics and links3 topics
- Formats for graphics
- Resolution requirements
- Keeping linked assets in order
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5Output6 topics
- Running preflight
- Sorting out preflight errors
- Choosing the export format
- PDFs for approval and screen viewing
- Exporting a high-resolution PDF
- Packaging up an InDesign document
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6Text frames7 topics
- What the frame indicators tell you
- The Text Frame Options dialog
- Threading text from frame to frame
- How text flows
- Options when importing text
- Inserting glyphs
- Adding break characters
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7Formatting type19 topics
- An overview of text formatting
- Character-level formatting
- Picking a typeface and style
- Setting the type size
- Leading, or line spacing
- Tracking and kerning
- Capitalisation options
- Superscript and subscript
- Underlines and strikethrough
- Shifting the baseline
- Paragraph-level formatting
- Aligning paragraphs
- Space above and below paragraphs
- Indenting a paragraph
- Hyphenation settings
- Colouring objects
- Making a new swatch
- Editing a swatch
- Sampling with the Eyedropper tool
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8A first look at styles3 topics
- What paragraph styles do
- Applying a paragraph style
- Editing a paragraph style
Who it is for.
People who need to produce a simple flyer, report or newsletter and want the shortest path to it.
How it runs.
One day, roughly 9am to 4pm, with a facilitator in the room the whole time. You get a workstation each with the software installed, in a CBD training room in any of the six capitals, or live online on your own computer.
Dates
Upcoming Dates
The next scheduled Adobe InDesign Lite dates, soonest first. If none of these work, tell us the city and we will let you know when the next block is released.
| Level | Date | Location | Delivery | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| InDesign Lite | Mon 31 Aug 26 | Remote East | Online | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Mon 31 Aug 26 | Sydney | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Mon 31 Aug 26 | Melbourne | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Tue 8 Sep 26 | Remote East | Online | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Tue 8 Sep 26 | Sydney | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Mon 14 Sep 26 | Remote East | Online | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Mon 14 Sep 26 | Brisbane | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Thu 17 Sep 26 | Melbourne | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Thu 17 Sep 26 | Remote East | Online | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Mon 21 Sep 26 | Remote East | Online | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Mon 21 Sep 26 | Sydney | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Mon 28 Sep 26 | Remote East | Online | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Mon 28 Sep 26 | Brisbane | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Thu 1 Oct 26 | Remote East | Online | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Thu 1 Oct 26 | Sydney | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Thu 1 Oct 26 | Brisbane | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Fri 2 Oct 26 | Melbourne | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Fri 2 Oct 26 | Remote East | Online | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Mon 5 Oct 26 | Melbourne | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Mon 5 Oct 26 | Remote East | Online | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Mon 12 Oct 26 | Melbourne | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Mon 12 Oct 26 | Brisbane | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Mon 12 Oct 26 | Remote East | Online | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Fri 16 Oct 26 | Melbourne | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Tue 20 Oct 26 | Melbourne | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Wed 21 Oct 26 | Sydney | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Mon 26 Oct 26 | Brisbane | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Mon 2 Nov 26 | Brisbane | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Mon 2 Nov 26 | Sydney | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Wed 4 Nov 26 | Melbourne | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Thu 5 Nov 26 | Brisbane | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Wed 11 Nov 26 | Melbourne | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Mon 16 Nov 26 | Melbourne | In person | $650 | Sold out |
| InDesign Lite | Wed 25 Nov 26 | Sydney | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Thu 26 Nov 26 | Perth | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Thu 26 Nov 26 | Remote West | Online | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Fri 27 Nov 26 | Sydney | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Tue 1 Dec 26 | Brisbane | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Tue 1 Dec 26 | Sydney | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Tue 8 Dec 26 | Sydney | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Wed 9 Dec 26 | Brisbane | In person | $650 | Book |
| InDesign Lite | Wed 16 Dec 26 | Brisbane | In person | $650 | Book |
By city
Adobe InDesign Lite in your city
Venue, transport and the dates running there.
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Reviews
What people said about Adobe InDesign Lite
Wizard courses run on the shared Nexacu schedule, so these are reviews of this course from people who sat it. Collected by Nexacu after the course and published as written.
All questions were answered. Basics walked through well.
Kelsey
19 January 2026
Understanding what a lot of the buttons and options do
Ethan
19 January 2026
Going through the theory in combination with practical examples. It was useful being able to ask questions when getting stuck with certain features.
Zianeb
19 January 2026
Actually the best training I’ve ever had.
Inan
30 March 2026
Loved David. He made it so enjoyable and easy to understand. You can tell his dedication, and it comes through in his teaching.
Ella
30 March 2026
For an introduction it was really great not to be overwhelmed by all of the content. David was an amazing instructor who is very knowledgeable in this field. The most valuable thing I learnt how to format everything in the correct way and ensuring that digital and print is formatted correctly.
Alisha
30 March 2026
Source: nexacu.com.au, read 27 August 2026. How feedback is collected.
Questions
Questions People Ask About This Course
Anything not answered here, call 1300 886 190 and ask a person.
How long is the Adobe InDesign Lite course?
It runs for 1 day, 9:00am – 4:00pm, with a facilitator in the room the whole time. Nothing is pre-recorded and there is no platform to log into afterwards.
How much does Adobe InDesign Lite cost?
$650 per person, excluding GST. That covers the course, the workbook and exercise files and the room. If four or more people from one organisation need it, an in-house day usually works out cheaper — tell us the numbers and we will price both.
Do I need any experience before this course?
No prerequisite. The day assumes ordinary computer confidence and nothing more.
Can I do Adobe InDesign Lite online instead of in a classroom?
Yes. Every date marked “Live online” runs over video with the same facilitator and the same practice, in breakout groups rather than a room. You use the software on your own machine, so you leave with it set up the way you actually work.
Which cities do you run Adobe InDesign Lite in?
Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, plus live online. Every venue is a CBD training room with a workstation for each person. If your city and date are not paired on the schedule above, ask — dates are released in blocks.
Which InDesign level should I book?
Work from what people already do rather than how long they have used it. The full course outline above shows exactly what this course covers, and the Adobe InDesign page lists every level in order. Still unsure? Call 1300 886 190 and describe a normal Tuesday.
Whole team on the same level? Run it in-house.
Your files, your templates, your workflow — the same course, taught against your own material.