Setting up InDesign

- InDesign is the standard for professional page layout.…And it's rich tool set makes it possible…to transfer your vision to paper.…I'm going to give you some tips…for making the most of that tool set…so that you can guarantee that your layout…will print as you expected.…Everybody likes to set up…their own house to their own tastes.…And we're all the same way about our software.…So I wanna show you how I set up InDesign,…when I first install it and it might give you some ideas.…Of course, you like to set it up to your liking,…but here's what I like.…We have this start screen that gives us…an easy way to build files of certain dimensions.…

Start a new file here.…Open an existing file, but I find…that I can do this another way…so I tend to turn this off.…So how would I do that?…Well, on Windows you would go up to Edit,…down to the bottom to Preferences.…On the Mac, you go to InDesign, Preferences.…Now, once you are at this location on either platform…you proceed the same.…So I'm just gonna suggest you just go to General…