Detroit InDesign User Group

Join us for some stylin' in the "D" with style strategies and text timesavers.Tap into the inner workings of how styles can improve your workflow with the man who, literally, wrote the book on styles - Michael Murphy, author of Adobe InDesign CS4 Styles: How to Create Better, Faster Text and Layouts and host of the popular video podcast, "The InDesigner."

When it comes to efficiency and flexibility, there's no beating InDesign's powerful styles. But when faced with character styles, paragraph styles, nested styles, GREP styles, nested line styles, object styles, table styles and cell styles as options, it's time for some strategic thinking. Planning ahead, and having a "style strategy" at the start of any project pays off throughout the life of that project in time saved, headaches avoided, and changes taken in stride.

Join Michael as he walks you through the many different types of styles in InDesign, and reveals countless tips and tricks for maximizing their potential. You'll find out:

* Why it's often better to think like a web designer than a print designer when planning your project

* Why it's more important to determine what the text in your document is than to decide how it looks

* When defining as little as possible about a style is much more useful than defining everything

* How to build "smart paragraphs" that format text dynamically using CS4's new GREP Styles

* And much more...


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Agenda
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6:00 PM Sign-in, networking and refreshments. Answer Desk available.
7:00 PM Opening announcements.
7:15 PM Michael Murphy.
9:00 PM Raffle.
9:15 PM Meeting ends.