Creating a Book using Adobe InDesign CC

[@kimowens1209]

Mr. Foushee, I just want to let you know what a savior you have been! It has taken me 3 months to get through your 45 minute tutorial, but I am pleased to say...Today it is finally finished!! Thank you so much for your willingness to create step-by-step tutorials for folks like myself. Without your help, my novel would still be "shelved," as it were. You are a true life saver!

[@SeanFoushee]

You're very welcome Kim! Congrats on finishing your novel and its layout!

[@brucekolinski8824]

Thank you Mr. Foushee. Just got InDesign three weeks ago (September 2021) to format a 400 page nonfiction book with footnotes, bibliography, and index for self-publication with a POD service. I'm half nuts, some would say I was anyway, but this video changed my life over the course of two or so days. I've gone through nearly 80 hours of InDesign instructional videos and articles - most really helpful - but could not put it all together cohesively. I'm now placing my fifth chapter and everything seems to be working. We'll see how it comes together in the end with all 24 chapters, but THANK YOU SO MUCH for making this video.

[@SeanFoushee]

You're very welcome, and congrats on jumping feet first into the deep end three weeks into learning the program!

[@SamiullahBukhari-b8n]

I never thought I'd able to learn to create a book in InDesign in one day. Thank you!

[@SeanFoushee]

You're welcome Samiullah, thanks for watching.

[@SuperQuwertz]

I normally hate it when I hear the clicks. But you type so nice and confident. Its even nice to hear. And thank you for the tutorial, its the best one for InDesign and I learned so much

[@thinktalk4s]

Thank you so much Sean. Though you published this video over fives years ago, it was exactly what I needed now...

[@SeanFoushee]

You’re very welcome Remi

[@thinktalk4s]

Sean, I used your video to format my book and get it approved and published. Thank you so much for saving me so much time and money.

[@SeanFoushee]

@@thinktalk4s I'm happy it helped you get published; congrats!

[@Bukulmus]

This is the most clear and concise InDesign tutorial I have found to date. Excellent work flow. I watched the entire six hour long documents course on Lynda and I got so much more out of this. Workflow is so important. Great video!

[@SeanFoushee]

Wow, thank you so much for the kind words. The folks at Lynda do a fantastic job, so I'm honored you found my tutorial just as helpful.

[@sanityone649]

This is one of the very best presentations on InDesign. Your expertise is noticible and welcome...as is your delivery. Thank you so much.

[@jkotarsky]

Out of the many tutorials I have watched on this, yours is by far the most clear and concise. You have a knack.

[@SeanFoushee]

Thank you John!

[@oldbalance]

This is a great guide "step by step" of how to create, format and define the most important parts of any book using Adobe In Desing. Thanks a lot for this video Sean!

[@Nickdoesstuff333]

I recently created my first InDesign novel and I couldn't have done it without your tutorials. THANK YOU so much for putting together this video and the one explaining how to export to .epub. You saved my day!

[@SeanFoushee]

+Melissa Woods you're very welcome.

[@Rebrosh]

I have a deadling at 4pm and this is a genuine life saver!!!

[@SeanFoushee]

You're welcome, I'm glad it was helpful.

[@odiliamanka6308]

hmm am speechless because the mastery and understanding was more than i thought...Thank you Sean

[@SeanFoushee]

You're welcome Odilia, thank you for the kind comments.

[@webpersonna]

RRS You are a GREAT teacher. This has been a wonderful learning experience. I have tried many similar instructions and none of them can compare with yours.

[@meanomine4995]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Excellent tutorial -- clear, concise, and very easy to follow and understand. Who are the 14 sad souls giving this a thumbs down? Ugh.

[@marcosgoncalves1519]

Thank you!! I have followed your steps many times now. I've learned more from this video on book layout than any other ones I've found.

[@SeanFoushee]

You're welcome Marcos, glad I could help.

[@jonvigeorge]

Awesome!! LOT TO LEARN

[@SeanFoushee]

vinodh john George thank you!

[@JuoxAeon]

Hello Sean, I just want to drop a couple of lines to say thank you very much for this video. It's very comprehensive and looks as a complete masterclass for a noveice InDesign user looking to format a book. You are great explaining the process for formatting in InDesign.

[@Miro87]

I've used InDesign for the first time thanks to your tutorial. Thank you very much!

[@SeanFoushee]

That's great to hear, thank you for the compliment!

[@bnn8854]

Thank you very much, Sean. Your tutorial explains almost every key points of creating InDesign documents and book in ap. 43 minutes. That is easy to understand. You ve been very helpful, perfect job, many thanks..

[@nekoanomaly]

Thank you, I've learned more from this video on book layout than any other ones I've found on youtube.

[@SeanFoushee]

You're welcome Jodi! Thanks for watching the tutorial.

[@mikloslaura1691]

@@SeanFoushee I completely agree, this video is just pure gold for the ones who want to learn for real and not to waste our time with KZbin surfing...

[@mcwebmore6976]

This is the best book/indesign video on the interweb! Brilliant & helpful!

[@jimtrainerpoet]

First of all, I love this video. Thanks so much. One thing that you seemed to gloss over is setting the tabs and leaders for the Table of Contents. I'm not sure what you're doing exactly but I can't seem to mimic it on my end. Thanks again, Sean!

[@SeanFoushee]

Thank you Jim. To set the leaders and tabs: 1. highlight the paragraph (line) you want to add the tab position and leader to. 2. Open the Tab panel (Type > Tabs or CMD/CTRL + Shift + T). 3. Determine if you want a left, center, right, or decimal/character tab by choosing it from the panel and then adding it by clicking in the gray bar just above the ruler. 4. With the tab position still highlighted in the gray area above the ruler type the leader you want into the Leader text box (I typically use a period followed by a single space) and hit return.

[@jimtrainerpoet]

​@@SeanFoushee Thanks Sean! I wonder if you can answer my next question simply? After I've created my source doc and placed all my content, I was able to create a table of contents. But I had to go back and format certain passages differently than the styles I created. Now, with those newly formatted passages (along with the ones that are true to the paragraph styles in the source doc), I'm unable to create a table of contents. It says it's updated but the page is blank. I have ticked the box to include all book docs but, still no go. Any idea?

[@SeanFoushee]

@@jimtrainerpoet Did you change the style's names or apply different styles to the chapter headings?

[@jimtrainerpoet]

@@SeanFoushee No. All changes were in the body passages.

[@SeanFoushee]

@@jimtrainerpoet Hmm, any chance you would be willing to let me see your InDesign file(s) to see if I can't pin down the issue?

[@emekaemeruem1650]

Great tutorial for interior book formatting. This is indeed a revolution and great time saver. EFFICIENCY!

[@WaysToFreedom]

This is a brilliant tutorial. You are so clear in your explanations. Thank you so much. I stumbled on this when I encountered your other video about ePubs, which is my immediate interest. I've created some books in InDesign before, but you pointed out some important things that I have been missing. Thank you.

[@SeanFoushee]

You're very welcome!

[@THEHOTJEM]

Hi Sean great tutuorial and you are very articulate and speak at a perfect pace. I have to say I learnt so much and I now just watch the video just tolisten to your voice!1 Thanks for taking the time to do this and for answering and/or commenting to all the numerous questions and compliments in this feed! You ROCK!

[@marioyordanov6366]

Best guide I have seen on InDesign. Good job!

[@SeanFoushee]

Thank you Mario.

[@MuyiwaOki]

Best InDesign tutorial. The brevity in explaining each tool is super. Id say its a targetted for someone a lil more familiar with the software

[@juliepackham6669]

Thank you! Had to keep re-watching because I was distracted by the background conversation. Roommates? Co-workers? As someone who works in an open office environment I sympathize. Just throw something at them. Works for me.

[@SeanFoushee]

Thank you Julie, and I would most certainly throw things at them, except those are students passing in the hall outside my office and the admins frown on pelting them with items from my desk (I know from experience) ;)

[@charlienorway]

AMAZING, You have saved me so much trouble. Super informative for my 160 page book.

[@SeanFoushee]

Thank you Charlie, is your book being published online?

[@charlienorway]

Yes 😊

[@zaulcalo]

Thanks Sean, very well explained intro for book making with ID. Welldone!

[@SeanFoushee]

+Raúl López Cabello Thank you for watching and for the comments Raúl.

[@Scripture-Man]

I'm very experienced with InDesign but I've never used it to make a book before, so I found this video very helpful, thank you. :)

[@SeanFoushee]

You're welcome Lee!

[@harveygoldberg5269]

Great video. It got me up and running on InDesign from a cold start.

[@reginaldarmah2381]

I just watched this video and want to say you saved my life. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!

[@mikefleethamsthinkingclass5277]

Sean - thank-you so much for sharing your skills here. You are an effective communicator and excellent teacher.

[@SeanFoushee]

Thank you for the kind words.

[@kynthea4101]

Thank you! Very clear, thorough and easy to understand. You solved the issues I was having in an easy way. Bravo!

[@Juntauz]

Finaly someone who can explain this in a calm way.. very easy to understand and this HELPED me a lot.. so thanks m8. :)

[@SeanFoushee]

+Dennis Krog you're welcome, and thank you for the compliments.

[@taina313]

you have a great voice, great instruction and great video quality. i watched the entire thing and took notes.

[@SeanFoushee]

Thank you!

[@jmoney3ify]

Starting to lay out my book this week with InDesign and this was incredibly helpful. Thank you!

[@SeanFoushee]

You're welcome Jason.

[@northsun]

You made a great job! Your tutorial is fantastic! Thank you so much!!!

[@JasonTRogers]

Thank you!! I have followed your steps many times now. You have been a great help. Thank you.

[@SeanFoushee]

You're very welcome. I'm glad you found this tutorial useful.

[@payaljaipuria5876]

Thank you. It's really informative and have made many books with the help of this video. Also shared it with my colleagues to use this a reference for their projects. Setting variables is extremely helpful and helps in setting TOC with great ease and without errors.

[@reshamraj6850]

Thanks for your great tutorial for interior book formatting. It's really what I needed

[@lyytan1]

So glad I found your video. Very helpful, clear, and easy to understand. Thank you very much!

[@SeanFoushee]

You're quite welcome! I'm glad you found the tutorial useful.

[@Adr805]

Man you are the best!!! You explained literally everyting which I needed to have learned - I prepared a list of things which were necessary to me to create my book and I was trying to find everyting one by one on the internet, thanks for thins vid I saved a lot of time cause you showed all I needed in really interesting and easy way. Thank you again and greetings from Poland!!!

[@SeanFoushee]

Dziekuję bardzo!

[@tomfrancis4398]

Thank you So, So very much. I have found this to be a tremendous help. This is a high value tutorial I find myself returning or sending others to on a regular basis. Excellent!!

[@SeanFoushee]

I really appreciate the comment Tom, thank you!

[@ianpavey5483]

Excellent instructional video. Everything you need to know, presented clearly and succinctly. Bookmarking this for sure!

[@traceycapobianco]

This tutorial was fantastic. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

[@SeanFoushee]

You're welcome Tracey, I'm glad you found it useful.

[@traceycapobianco]

It was easy to follow however, even though the styles were set up for all 22 chapters, somehow I still needed to manually go in and change all the paragraphs, if that makes any sense? And on a few chapters, I had to insert extra pages. I do have one other question. If I manually type a TOC, will it still sync to chapters in an epub? TIA

[@SeanFoushee]

If you're asking about the internal menu in an ePub then no, a manually created TOC will not link in the ePub based on InDesign's standard export options. However, you can still create a TOC style for your book in your style source document, just not generate it visually, and still use it in the export options to create the internal menu. If you want to create a visual TOC within the pages of the book that links then you'll need to either use InDesign's built-in features to setup links from the TOC options to the correct pages before export, or after export edit the ePub file directly and add anchor take using XHTML.

[@praaht18]

Excellent lecture. Thanks.

[@NaomiteWinkel]

Wow this is so great Sean! Thank you for all the helpful info!

[@SeanFoushee]

+Naomi teWinkel You're welcome!

[@abdale2389]

Thanks a lot, i just finish my first textbook flowing ur video step by step. really helped me

[@MrSorinet]

Very good tutorial, made me easy transition from PageMaker to InDesign, thanks for sharing.

[@SeanFoushee]

You're very welcome.

[@padrepops]

Very well explained! Probably going to make my first book thanks to you!

[@SeanFoushee]

Thank you biagio! Have fun laying out your first book!

[@karenclark8437]

excellent tutorial, great delivery and information.

[@mimoubadisi8316]

I want a book of perfume formulas And flavor formulas. please.

[@enemeriogalvan6833]

Thanks for creating this tutorial with clear step by step process! It is informative and most helpful. I am learning on InDesign CC 2018.

[@keatmurray7363]

This is an excellent tutorial, Sean. So very helpful!

[@SeanFoushee]

you're welcome, I'm glad you found it helpful.

[@keatmurray7363]

Hello, Sean. I am having great difficulty with something; perhaps you can direct me. I have looked for tutorials (KZbin and InDesign CC), but I have found nothing that is clear to this beginner. I want to set up my Master pages with automatic page numbers (in regular style) that will also include the book title in italics. The left page, for example, should be left justified and read 3 Italicized Book Title The right page, for example, should be right justified and read Italicized Book Title 4 I need one space between the page number and the Italicized Book Title, no matter how many spaces the page number requires (i.e. 1 or 135). Sorry for this out-of-the-ordinary request.

[@keatmurray7363]

Sorry, I mixed up the page numbers. I should have said: The left page, for example, should be left justified and read 2 Italicized Book Title The right page, for example, should be right justified and read Italicized Book Title 3

[@SeanFoushee]

Understandable, just edit your master page (make sure you're setup for facing pages) and add a single text frame and add the current page number followed by a single space then typeset the title of your book. No need for anything special, just use the dynamic page number feature and static text for your book title.

[@keatmurray7363]

How simple. I thought I tried that, but evidently I didn't! All is correct now. Thanks again!

[@hudacekm]

nice, clear, basic explanation. thank you, sir

[@gurumoorthi2123]

Thank you so much

[@Myla1225]

so THATS how to do that. I knew there must be a way. Thanks Sean!

[@SeanFoushee]

You're welcome Don; glad to help.

[@showeburrahman01]

this video is awesome and very helpful, really you've described very well.thanks a lot!

[@SeanFoushee]

Thank you jewels! I'm glad you found it helpful.

[@aftabrathore]

very inspiring and detailed video. thanks for sharing

[@big_boy_bobo]

Brilliant tutorial, very clear and as such extremely helpful! Particularly appreciated the paragraph styles creation tips, made my life easier working across multiple documents with synchronisation :-). Thanks a lot for sharing!

[@SeanFoushee]

Roberto Merlo You're very welcome.

[@brandonlewis5573]

@Sean Foushee, you've got a fantastic tutorial here. Great work! Thanks so much. I don't know if you take requests, but I would love to see a tutorial for laying out a photobook or artbook. There are some others out there, but you've got the right pace, style and a great speaking voice. Anyway, thanks again!

[@SeanFoushee]

+Brandon Lewis Hi Brandon, sorry I just saw your comment got caught up in KZbin's black hole of moderated comments. I'd be happy to put together a tutorial on a photo book, do you have a specific layout in mind?

[@BQPhotography07]

I would say just different sizes and text layouts. LOL cover table of contents again of course!

[@deborahthiel1]

This is an excellent tutorial - thank you! Subscribed!

[@SeanFoushee]

Thank you Deborah!

[@BeckyBlanton]

This is so helpful! I have Indesign Creative Suite and the latest version which does NOT make it easy to add a new style. I like how you were able to do that here, but I just can't get it to work. The InDesign Adobe forum administrators are so hateful and snotty I don't even go there anymore. Feeling lost, but this is so helpful!

[@SeanFoushee]

Hello Becky, I'm sorry I've been offline to concentrate on my lectures this semester. Which version of InDesign are you using? 2018 or 2019? What issues are you having with creating styles?

[@karenjackson2825]

This video has saved me twice now. Thank you!

[@SeanFoushee]

You’re very welcome! I’m glad it was useful.

[@msms2013]

AMAZING! Such a helpful tutorial. Will definitely be used again!

[@StevenCasteelYT]

Very well done and useful tutorial. Thank you! Funnily enough, I was also working with Grimm's tales.

[@erichepperlewp]

Amazing and well designed tutorial on publishing an ebook with #InDesign! Subscribed and looking forward to watching more InDesign ebook or newspaper publishing tutorials.

[@samshepherd9551]

I know this is a couple of years old but this is a good tutorial dude!

[@SeanFoushee]

I appreciate that, thank you. Thankfully InDesign hasn't changed much since the start of CC.

[@samshepherd9551]

No it hasn't really you're right. Its a real clear tutorial you don't speak fast at a good pace thumbs up dude

[@SeanFoushee]

sam shepherd thanks Sam, I really appreciate that.

[@The11ManBand]

This was tutorial was so helpful!! Thanks for taking time to show the process step by step.

[@yaeluke]

Fantastic video!!! You should definitely make more.

[@SeanFoushee]

Thank you Yael. I'm working on new lesson plans for my classes over the summer and plan on producing more content that will coincide with those topics, as well as incorporating suggestions I've received over the last 12 months from viewers.

[@kennethnegaard7599]

Fantastic. Easy to follow. Thank you Sir.

[@gauravie]

variable text entry usage is awesome

[@xiiixviiiw]

Thank you first for this great tutorial. The best tutor I came across on KZbin. Would you please consider making a tutorial about how to practically use find and change to clean up a messy manuscript with indesign! God bless you !

[@SeanFoushee]

Thank you Jason, do you have an example of a messy manuscript I could take a look at?

[@xiiixviiiw]

I actually was working on metamorphosis of Kafka I found on gutenberg project , and when I took it to indesign, it was a mess ! You could take a look at it on gutenberg org , but only of it doesn't bother you ! Thank you boss !

[@SeanFoushee]

@@xiiixviiiw No worries. I checked out the plain text version, and while it is missing some of the original layout indents (expected for a plain text document) it looks okay. Outside of removing the extra carriage returns what issues are you running into?

[@xiiixviiiw]

Thank you bro !

[@SeanFoushee]

@@xiiixviiiw You're welcome

[@thanicha04]

You really saved my life! Thank you for this wonderful tutorial.

[@SeanFoushee]

You're welcome!

[@BeHumanNotaZombie]

Very nice! Easy to follow

[@ellieswisher]

Bless you! So easy to follow, clear and concise. Thanks!

[@SeanFoushee]

You're welcome.

[@SSaintouen]

Awesome I've been fighting with this issue for days now . Solve the Full Book Asset Incomplete/Inaccurate iBooks Table of Contents ticket from Itunes connect. made my day thanks

[@BurnerFlame]

Very useful and well explained. Thanx so much for sharing your knowledge!

[@oskarnietz6350]

You´re the boss. Excellent tutorial

[@SeanFoushee]

Thank you!

[@princehenrysnal3364]

Salute Boss!! Thank you so much for your help. Carry on!

[@ibrahimfakhri]

Brilliant brilliant video, thank you very much.

[@charityworks.studio]

Very nice articulation!

[@350degreesf]

This is an excellent tutorial. Thank you so much!

[@isabelfidalgo6934]

Thank you for sharing step by step! Very helpfull.

[@SeanFoushee]

+Isabel Fidalgo you're very welcome.

[@moderate-_-6]

Sean Foushee this was an amazing video woooooow you helped me sooo much

[@SeanFoushee]

You're welcome Reanelle!

[@ANDRE5_FELIPE]

Very informative, I greatly appreciate you Bro!

[@Beebop121]

Thanks for the tutorial... makes my head spin but I'll get it eventually

[@Dragons_Novel]

This was great. It gave me a lot of information to add what I've already learned. The only problem I have now is to remove the running headers from the top of the first page of each chapter.

[@SeanFoushee]

The easiest thing to do is to apply the NONE master page to the first page of your chapter, unless you also want to display a page number. In that case, create a separate Master page that just includes page numbers and use that for your first page of each chapter.

[@Dragons_Novel]

Thanks, Sean. I'll have to create another Master page, so I can include the page number.

[@boltsprout]

This is hugely helpful. Thank you!

[@SeanFoushee]

You're very welcome!

[@MagnumVideos]

Very instructive video. Thanks for sharing.

[@SeanFoushee]

+Magnum you're welcome Magnum.

[@AGCtz]

The best professor.

[@shanhe6098]

I wish I watched this earlier. Thanks so much!!

[@vitodanelli]

Wow!! Thank you so much for the fabulous video.

[@fluffinn]

This has been incredibly helpful! Thank you so much!!

[@SeanFoushee]

+Ricky B you're welcome Ricky.

[@jayalejandro324]

Thank you for this video. A bit of suggestion when rude people chatter while you are instructing on a video: slam the door on them if you can, or, through abook at them. Otherwise, chatter or not, great video and thanks

[@mrsonigiri]

Great introduction! Thank you for making this. I only found the use of shortcuts confusing at times. As a beginner, I did not know in which menu to look for the commands or which shortcuts to hit. An idea is to just write the shortcut as you press it on the screen...

[@SeanFoushee]

Thanks Uschi, I'll keep that in mind for future videos.

[@sorendefre1674]

Thanks Sean,your video has been SO helpful! Brilliant!

[@SeanFoushee]

+Soren Defre Thank you Soren.

[@stefanyallaire]

Simple, to the point... Thank you so much... Very instructive!

[@SeanFoushee]

You're welcome, thank you for watching and the comment.

[@mimoubadisi8316]

I want a book of perfume formulas And flavor formulas. please.

[@Coconuttize]

Thank you for this - exactly what I needed :) Great tutorial!

[@SeanFoushee]

+Coconuttize you're welcome.

[@roberth5435]

+Coconuttize Much better than other tutorials because it includes EACH step, without any assumption of antecedents. A follow-up with creation of index and bibliography would be super.Another question: I use LaTex for formulae (and sometimes Word formula editor). What's the easiest way to include math stuff?

[@SeanFoushee]

+Robert Hadow I'll add an Index and Footnote tutorial to my to-do list for this semester. As for Math, I don't normally handle formulas and equations in my layouts and the ones I have had to include were saved as Illustrator graphics, but I know some layout artists that have used MathTools with success: movemen.com