Thank you all so much for the help! I really appreciate the feedback.

Dwayne and Anne-Marie, that’s exactly what I was looking for! I’m definitely going to use this little trick with all of my icons.

Anne-Marie, I absolutely loved Using InDesign and Word Together. That course was actually the reason I signed up for Lynda.com. I took a few InDesign courses in college, and I figured that I could probably muddle through on my own until I saw your course. I’m currently in the process of moving my company’s technical documentation (which is currently all done in Word) into InDesign. I can’t believe how much easier this whole project is going to be after taking that course! I have it bookmarked so I can watch certain videos over again as I go along.

I have another quick question about images.

My document is going to be primarily text (with a few small in-line graphics like the Help icon) with one or two large screen captures per page. I’m working to design a few master pages (one that is just text, one with one large screen capture, and one with two large screen captures). I’m not sure whether I should make these large images inline, anchored, or just totally separate. I was originally going to have them hang out separately because I’m not sure if I can do anchored images with master pages. However, the images will be specific to certain text. If I want to insert or delete something, I need to make sure the images stay with the proper text. This makes me think that I should anchor them.

I’m planning to make each chapter a separate document, and then combine the chapters into a book for each manual. The courses I took in college only covered making posters and short magazine spreads, so I don’t have any experience in dealing with long documents, tables of contents, books, etc. I’ve been working through Creating Long Documents with InDesign (Mike Rankin) and InDesign CS6 Essential Training (David Blatner) to get some help with this. Does anyone have any tips, advice, or other resources they would recommend?

Thanks!