Introduction -- Part 1: Before you begin -- Understanding InDesign ingredients -- Making InDesign work your way -- Part II: Document essentials -- Opening and saving your work -- Discovering how pages and layers work -- The joys of reuse -- Working with color -- Part III: Object essentials -- Adding essential elements -- Manipulating objects -- Organizing objects -- Aligning and arranging objects -- Part IV: Text essentials -- Putting words on the page -- The ins and outs of text editing -- The styles of text -- Fine-tuning paragraph details -- Finessing character details -- Tricks with text -- Part V: Graphics essentials -- Importing graphics -- Fitting graphics and setting paths -- Part VI: Getting down to business -- Working with tabs and tables -- Working with footnotes, indexes, and TOCs -- Working with automatic text -- Publishing books -- Part VII: Printing and multimedia essentials -- Printing your work -- Multimedia project basics -- Part VIII: The part of tens -- Top ten new features in InDesign CS4 -- Top ten resources for InDesign users.