Learn how to effectively create a staff page featuring Victor Stone in Adobe InDesign, where we'll be assembling and formatting text, adding images, and ensuring all relevant information is included neatly. Gain insight into how to make decisions about the layout, what information to include and how to present it for a professional finish.
Key Insights
- The article provides a step-by-step guide on creating a staff page in Adobe InDesign, starting with copying text from a Word document to InDesign and replacing placeholders with relevant content.
- Readers learn how to add an image to the page, adjust its placement and fill it proportionally, as well as how to organize the information on the page by prioritizing the most relevant and current skills and experiences.
- Further, the article presents methods to edit text formats, insert new text frames, and adjust their placements for an organized layout. It also touches on how to save the created staff page and the importance of stylizing the content for consistency across multiple pages.
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In this video, we'll begin working on our last staff page for Victor Stone. With our Word document pulled up, we can see we have Victor Stone's information here, and let's begin first by copying this first paragraph.
Click CTRL + C to copy, and for our title we'll have Victor Stone—Construction Administration. Next, we'll go back into our file in InDesign, and we can replace our title. We'll type Victor Stone, and for his title, we'll replace it as Construction Administration.
Next, for our paragraph, let's replace this, triple-clicking and hitting CTRL + A, then hitting CTRL + V to paste our text, and this fits well here. Next, we'll replace our image here, and we can simply click on the grabber and hit the Delete key. If we hit W on the keyboard, we can see we still have the frame. Let's drag our picture of Victor right here into the frame, and adjust it by right-clicking to Fill Frame Proportionally, and we can adjust it accordingly.
I think this looks good. Next, let's begin working on this bottom section. If we pull over our Word document, let's look back at the information we have for Victor Stone.
Currently, we have lots of skills and experience, and we won't possibly be able to fit all of this onto the page. Therefore, we'll need to make decisions about how we want it to fit. Feel free to make your own decisions about what you want from this page to fit, or you can follow along with me.
For me, I'm going to fit the skills on the left-hand side, and I'm only going to pick the most relevant and most current experience. To do this, I'm first going to copy Skills and hit CTRL + C. In this case, this left format might actually be a better format than what we currently have here.
I'm going to drag a selection box over all of this, and then holding SHIFT to deselect my background, I'm just going to drag it off to the right-hand side of the page. Next, I'm going to copy these two text frames that we have here, and I'll begin with this one, and then holding ALT, I'll click and drag to the right. In this case, we're going to start it just below, one baseline below his image.
From here, we have our first column on the left, and let's simply repeat this on the right. We'll utilize this one as a copied base and drag it over, holding ALT, and we can drag that down. Now that we have our frames here, we can triple-click the left text, hit CTRL + A and CTRL + V.
And here, we now have our skills, which let's reformat. We'll go to our Properties panel, and from Bullets, we'll switch it to In-Text Title. Next, if we scroll to the right, we can edit this text as well.
For this text, we're going to pull in our most relevant experience. So let's highlight all of this and hit CTRL + C to copy. Then going back into InDesign, we're going to hit CTRL + V to paste.
Now we need to do a little bit of formatting here. First, we'll highlight Experience, and let's make that an In-Text Title. Next, this doesn't need to be in Bullets, since this is the Company and the role, but we'll highlight all of this, and we're simply going to do Basic Paragraph.
However, remember that they're italicized, so we'll go down to Italic. Finally, we're going to drop Project Engineer to the next line, hitting BACKSPACE and holding SHIFT and hitting ENTER. Additionally, we can remember that we are just using the word Company.
We'll double-click and have Company, Parks and Dwell. Then finally, we have the role. In this case, it'll be difficult to get this entire role to fit on one line, so I'm okay with it currently being on two lines.
From here, we can also change Responsibilities, triple-clicking, and let's go back up to the top to In-Text Title. We then have all of our elements here on the bottom, and this looks good. As one final addition, let's add his Education.
We've got a little room on this page, so we can copy Education from the bottom here. Let's hit CTRL + C when we have it highlighted. Now we simply need to add our box. Before doing so, let's utilize our Selection Tool to grab both of these text frames and just move them up a bit. Now for our box, let's scroll our perspective to the right, and we can take both of these right here and drag them in, and then drag the corners over.
Move it up one, and do some spacing, and I'll re-drag it down here. For this box then, we'll hit CTRL + A to select all the text, and hit CTRL + V to paste. Then we'll do a little stylizing here, highlighting Education.
We're going to make this Education In-Text Title, and we'll center it. Then we can remove this from being bulleted, and we'll just do Basic Paragraph, and again, center it. Finally, let's resize this frame below, and I think we're going to just come up one baseline, and for the actual shape, we'll do the same.
Let's just bring it in a little bit. Bring it to about that size. Currently, we're missing some of our text here, so let's highlight Education right here, and let's just remove the space after. Here we have it flowing together.
We click outside and hit W on the keyboard, we can see what this looks like, and here we have all of the relevant information for Victor Stone. For now, let's hit CTRL + S on the keyboard to save. However, in the next video, we're going to begin stylizing all three of these pages to be a bit more consistent.
For example, we have Work Experience, we have just Experience, we have some things in all caps, some things not in caps, and so in the next video, we'll stylize all of this text. We'll see you there.