1. "InDesign is the industry standard for publishing projects." It seems like it's the ultimate resource for formatting documents and other forms of publishing for a business or group. In my circumstance, not being very familiar was Adobe, the most important thing I gather from this video is that it looks similar to Microsoft Publisher. I have to try to not be intimidated by these programs and just keep practicing.
2. When setting up the format for a document the "Facing Pages" option makes for a book like layout. Also Command+N opens a new page.
3. All images and text exist within a frame in InDesign. In order to place a new piece of information onto the document, be sure to un-click from whatever frame you are currently working in.
4. InDesign makes working with text pretty simple; It seems like there are a lot of shortcuts to adjust formatting in a document. Something that I think will be helpful is dragging the eyedropper over a word which will copy the formatting of that word and then changing the formatting of another section to match the eye-drop.
5&6. This article contains a lot of information that really does not mean anything to me because I do not have Adobe on the computer that I am working on currently and cannot follow along in the program as I read. I'm going to save this article for future reference though because I'm sure all those words mean something and they'll come in handy eventually... It seems like a character style refers to font while paragraph styles refers to both font and format. The two are in separate panels so they can be controlled separately. The section about importing a word document explains how to keep the styles or change them to something in InDesign. That section will probably come in handy when merging files together.
(Working with Character Styles: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/how-to/indesign-formatting-text-character-styles.html?set=indesign--fundamentals--work-type)
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