A workspace is where your work is created. Workspaces typically include an area designated for creating a finished product, much like a painter would use a canvas to create a painting.

Orientation:
(i) Specify a page orientation for the document.
(ii) Landscape or Portrait.

(i) Adobe InDesign is a page layout software program.
(ii) Page layout software includes tools that allow you to easily position textand graphics on document pages.

Using the view commands
(i) Choose View > Zoom In for magnifying to the next preset percentage.
(ii) Choose View > Zoom Out for reducing and retracting to the previous preset percentage.
(iii) Choose View > Actual Size for the document to be displayed at 100%.
(iv) Choose View > Fit page in Window for scaling the view size to match the monitor size.
(v) Choose View > Fit Spread in Window for displaying the targeted spread in the window.
(vi) Choose View > Entire Pasteboard for displaying the current page or spread and its surrounding pasteboard that ().revisible within the document window.

Type Tool ()
(i) The Type tool is used to enter and edit text.
(ii) To create a text frame, select the Type tool and drag the tool in the document window.
(iii) To select the Type tool, press T.
Path Type Tool ( )
(i) The Path Type tool is used to enter and edit text on a path (Adobe calls this the "Type on a Path" tool).
(ii) To add text on a path, select the Path Type tool and click the tool on a path. A flashing text insertion point (or text cursor) appears on the path.
(iii) At this point, text you enter will flow along the path.
(iv) To select the Path Type tool, press Shift +T.
Add Anchor Point tool ( )
When you click the Add Anchor Point tool on a selected path, InDesign adds a point at that location on the path.

Tools panel:
The Tools panel contains selection tools, tools for drawing basic shapes, path drawing and editing tools, transformation tools, text editing tools, navigation tools, and object formatting tools.
(i) By default, the Tools panel is docked under the Control panel.
(ii) All tools are found in the Tools panel, located along the left side of your document window.

Creating Graphic Frame
(i) Graphic frame can hold graphic content.
(ii) You can distinguish a text frame from a normal graphic frame because the graphic frames display a non-printing 'X' in their centres.
(iii) Graphic frames are used to import pictures of other software programs. In InDesign, all imported images are contained within graphic frames.
(iv) The Tools panel contains three tools for drawing graphic frames.
1. Ellipse Frame - This tool lets you create oval and round frames.
2. Rectangle Frame - This tool lets you create rectangular and square frames.
3. Polygon Frame - This tool lets you create equilateral polygons frames.
To create a Rectangle frame
1. Click on the Rectangle Frame tool in the Tools panel (or) Press F in the keyboard.
2. Position the Rectangle Frame tool pointer on the page.
3. Drag to create a rectangle frame that is approximately the size and shape you want, then release the mouse button.
When you release the mouse button after creating a Rectangle frame, the frame you created is active.
If the Selection tool was previously selected, the frame is displayed within its bounding box, which contains eight resizing handles, which help you to change the shape or size of the bounding box or the frame.

Creating a Rectangle frame
Inserting Picture in Graphic Frame
Graphic frames are used to import pictures of other software programs. You can insert the picture in the frame.
1. Make a graphic frame.
2. Choose File > Place in the menu.
The Place dialog box appears.
3. Locate and select the picture you want to insert the frame.
4. Click on Open.
The picture will appear in the graphic frame.

Starting Adobe InDesign CC
1. Choose Start> All Programs> Adobe lriDesign CC 2019 (or)
Click on the InDesign short cut on the desktop.
2. Welcome to InDesign window will open. Now click on Create New ... button.

3. Now a New Document window will open.
When You create a new document, you have the opportunity to set many options in the New Document dialog box.
To set the basic options for a new document:
i) In the New Document dialog box, click a category tab: Print, Web, or Mobile.

Specify the following options.for the selected preset:
Width and Height: Specify the size of the document.
Units: Specify the measurement unit for the document.
Orientation: Specify a page orientation for the document: Landscape or Portrait.
Pages: Specify the number M pages to create in the document.
Facing pages: If you're creating a single-sided document-like an advertisement, poster, or handbill-leave Pacing Pages turned off. Turn it on for books and magazines, which usually have both left-hand and right-hand pages.
Start#: Specify which number the document starts on. If you specify an even number (such as 2) with Pacing Pages selected, the first spread in the document begins witha two-page spread.
Primary Text Frame: Select this option to add a primary text frame on the master page.
Columns: Specify the number of columns to add in the document.
Column Gutter: Specify the amount of whitespace between columns.
Margins: Specify the margins for each side of the document. To use. different values for different sides, delink the dimensions by clicking the chain icon.
Bleed and Slug: Specify the position of the bleed and slug along each side of the document. To use different values for different sides, delink the dimensions by clicking the chain icon.
4. Click the Create button to open a document with the preset settings.