During a training earlier today, several colleagues were shocked at how much I know about InDesign.
But it made perfect sense to me, because of something I did over a year ago:
I went through every visible button in my InDesign workspace and figured out what they did. With one to three buttons a day, it took a little while, but I learned GOBS about InDesign.
The best part? It only took a few minutes.
Just a few minutes every work day over the course of several weeks and I was granted a surprising new understanding of the program.
Sure, I had no need of many tools—but there were plenty of others that bowled me over with their newfound possibilities. (The Content Collector? C’mon—that thing is amazing.)
I’ve only done this with InDesign, but I’m well aware that the same learning process applies to every other complex program out there, including the stand-bys of the Office Suite, such as PowerPoint and Word, whose familiarity can seduce me into thinking they have nothing new to offer.
Not so, I suspect!
Taylor Coe 