Reply To: InDesign

Are you planning to write your text in InDesign, or are you using it to format text you’ve already written?

The answer to your question is yes, in my opinion – although I haven’t used Quark (formerly a big player in the desktop publishing world, still available, but not as widely used as it once was)in 15 years or more. INDD will do all of those things you mentioned and more, and if you utilize all of the resources available, your learning curve with the software doesn’t have to be painful.

MS Word gives me headaches to try to lay out pages in (and unfortunately I have had to use it for that purpose a few times based on requests from management).

Good luck and I hope you enjoy learning the program. This site is a gold mine for tips and how-tos, and Adobe’s site has very good step-by-step instructions as well.