Updating Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) tools and making a workspace

…Before we begin designing, we need to do some setup.…Firstly, let's make sure we have the most current version of the DPS Talks.…You can check for updates under the Help menu.…Alternatively, you can go to the Creative Cloud application and under Apps.…Come and have a look next to InDesign.…If it says update available, then go ahead and update it.…Next, I'm going to create a custom workspace.…This will give me access to the tools that I need.…Starting out with the predefined digital publishing workspace.…I'm now going to close those panels that we don't need.…

We don't need animation or timing or liquid layout.…And I'm going to rearrange what we're left with to make a single column.…Arrangement of panels just because this is my preference.…I then pull these out.…There are some others that we can get rid of.…Preflight of course, if we close any we realize we need…later on we can always access them from the Window menu.…Gradiance, stroke, color all of those I will close.…But now I will come to Styles, I like my paragraph and character styles.…