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Hi there! In this video we’ll be learning to 
create a resume in InDesign, so let’s get started.

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I’m creating a letter-sized document, 
which is the apt size for a resume,  

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and let me change the units to inches. 
The margins are already set to 0.25  

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inch, which is perfect, and let’s add a 
bleed of 3 millimeters, and hit create.

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First of all, let’s drag the ruler, and reset it 
at the top left bleed, and then drop a guide at  

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0.75 inch. Similarly, drag the ruler, and reset 
it at the top right bleed, and drop another guide  

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at 0.75 inch from the right. Now I want to divide 
the space between the guides into three columns,  

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so the way I’m going to do it is to pick the 
rectangle tool, and make a rectangle stretching  

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from the guide on the left to the guide on the 
right, and without releasing the mouse, hit the  

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right arrow twice to split the rectangle into 
three. Now let’s add a black fill to the stroke.

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To add a guide between the two rectangles, 
let’s first group them, so that we easily get  

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the center point. Let’s select the left 
and center rectangles, and right-click,  

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and select group. Now that we have the center 
point established, let’s drop a guide at it.  

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Let’s now right-click, and ungroup them. 
Next, let’s select the rectangle on the right,  

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and the center one, and then right-click, and 
group them. Drop a guide at the center point  

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that you’ve just established, and then delete all 
three rectangles, as we don’t need them anymore.

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Let’s grab the rectangle tool once again, 
and make a rectangle on the first column,  

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touching the guides, and then place a guide 
at the center of this column with the help  

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of the center handle of the rectangle. Let’s 
double-click the fill, and change the color to  

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orange, so let me pick this tone, 
and hit okay. Since I don’t want  

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the rectangle to have sharp edges, let’s 
round the corners from the toolbar above.  

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Let me zoom in, and let’s reduce the size of the 
rectangle from the sides, as we would want some  

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padding on both sides, else it will look too tight 
between the columns. Let’s pick the ellipse frame  

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tool, and holding Option and Shift on a Mac, or 
Alt and Shift on a PC, click at the center guide,  

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a little above the rectangle, and drag to make a 
circular frame. Let’s go to file, and then place,  

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and locate the image on the computer, and hit 
open. Let’s pick the type tool, and make a text  

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box for the name, and type in any name of your 
choice. I’m going to type in ‘James Brown.’  

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Let’s change the font to Humanst 
Bold, and then center-align it.  

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Let’s also increase the font size to 14 points. 
Now let’s add the profession of this chap,  

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and it’s always better to just copy this text, 
rather than creating a new text box altogether,  

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so let’s hold Option on a Mac, or Alt on a PC, 
and click, and drag the text box down. Now type  

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in ‘chemical engineer,’ as his profession. Let’s 
change the font color to white, and lastly,  

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update the font size to 8 points. Also, push 
it down a bit, and let’s hit ‘W’ for a preview.

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Before moving further, let’s add a light 
background, as the boxes I’ll be creating will  

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have white background, so it’s going to complement 
well, so let’s hit the small plus button at  

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the bottom of the layers panel to create a new 
layer. Now drag the new layer down, and rename it  

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‘background.’ Grab the rectangle tool, and make 
a large rectangle covering the entire artboard,  

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including the bleed. Now double-click the fill 
option, and pick a light color, and hit okay.  

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Let’s check the preview. I think the background 
is complementing the orange color pretty well,  

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so let’s proceed with the rest of 
the text. Let’s grab the type tool,  

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and make a text box right below the orange 
rectangle, and type in ‘my contact details.’  

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Select the text, and using the eyedropper tool, 
steal the orange color from the rectangle.  

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Also, change the font to ‘Humanst Bold.’ I think 
we should up the size of the text a bit, so let’s  

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increase it to 12 points. Now copy this text box 
down, and then drag to enlarge the text box. Here  

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I’m going to enter details like home phone number, 
mobile number, email address, Linkedin address,  

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and the physical address. You are at liberty 
to add other social media addresses as well.  

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Once you’ve typed in all your contact details, 
select the entire text, and reduce the font size  

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to 10 points. Now select just the headings, and 
change the font style to bold for all of them.  

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I think I need to shorten 
the orange rectangle a bit.  

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Now it’s okay. Let’s check the 
preview, and I think, so far, so good.  

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Now let’s grab the type tool, and make a text box 
on the pasteboard, and then right-click, and fill  

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it with placeholder text. We’ll be borrowing 
text from here, for the rest of the content.

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Now it’s time to add some of our content to 
paragraph styles, since we’ll be using them  

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at multiple places, so let’s select the orange 
heading, and go to window, and then styles,  

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and select paragraph styles. Now click 
the small plus button at the bottom of the  

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paragraph styles panel to create a new style, 
and rename it ‘heading-orange,’ and hit okay.  

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Next, drag a guide from the ruler above, and 
drop it at the top of the orange rectangle.  

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Now let’s grab the rectangle tool, and make a 
rectangle in the center column, touching the  

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guides on either sides of the column, and then 
drop a guide at the center of this rectangle,  

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and since we’ve established the center of 
the column, let’s delete the rectangle,  

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and then holding Shift, click and drag 
the orange rectangle to this column,  

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and it will be copied here. Let’s change the color 
of this rectangle to white. Similarly, make a  

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copy of the orange heading, and place it here. 
Now change the heading to ‘personal profile.’

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At this point, we need another paragraph style for 
body text, so let’s select the text on the left,  

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and click the small plus button at the 
bottom of the paragraph styles panel,  

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and double-click, and rename 
it ‘body text,’ and hit okay.  

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Now let’s grab the type tool, and make a text 
box covering the rest of this white rectangle,  

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leaving some padding space on all sides. Now 
copy some text from the text box we placed on  

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the pasteboard earlier, and then paste it here. 
With the text still selected, click the ‘body  

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text’ paragraph style, and then make necessary 
paragraphing, so that it looks presentable.  

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Let’s do some final adjustments to the text inside 
the white box, and once satisfied with the layout,  

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hold Option and Shift on a Mac, or Alt and Shift 
on a PC, and copy this entire piece down. Next,  

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drag the text box to make room for some more text. 
Update the heading to ‘educational training,’  

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then make another copy of the 
body text, and place it below.  

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Now select the text above, and change 
its name to ‘university of whatever.’  

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Change the font style to bold, and then select 
this text, and make another paragraph style,  

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and rename it ‘heading-black.’ Now make another 
copy of this heading, and place it right below.  

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Select the text, and rename it ‘master in chemical 
engineering.’ Update the font style to ‘italics.’  

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With the text still selected, create another 
paragraph style, and rename it ‘heading-italics.’  

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Now move the text box closer to this heading,  

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and then select the text, and go to the burger 
menu at the top right corner of the toolbar above,  

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and select ‘bullets and numbering.’ From the ‘list 
type’ option, select ‘bullets,’ and update the tab  

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position to 0.2 inch, and hit okay. Let’s remove 
the space between the two bulleted sentences,  

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and ensure that your cursor is placed anywhere 
on the last line of the first bulleted sentence,  

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and go to paragraph formatting controls, and 
increase the ‘space after’ to 0.125 inch.  

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Let’s also change the last bit of the 
first bulleted sentence to a year,  

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like found in most of the completed degrees, 
or diplomas. Now select these text boxes,  

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and holding Option and Shift on a Mac, or Alt 
and Shift on a PC, drag them down to copy them.  

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Now change the name of the 
university to ‘whatever college.’  

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Also, update the degree to ‘bachelor in chemical 
engineering.’ Lastly, update the year to 1995.  

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Let’s now move on to the last column, and 
copy this entire piece, and paste it here.  

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Let’s pick the rectangle tool, and make a 
rectangle here, stretching from the guide  

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on the left, to the guide on the right, 
to establish the center of this column,  

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and then place a guide at the center, 
and then delete the rectangle.  

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Now center-align the whole box based 
on the guide we’ve just placed.

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Let’s change the orange 
heading to ‘career summary.’  

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Let’s also change the black 
heading to ‘whatever company,’  

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and the italics heading to ‘lead engineer.’

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Let’s move on to the second company, 
and rename it ‘unknown company,’  

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and then the position to ‘assistant engineer.’  

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Let’s now make a copy of the personal profile 
box, and paste it in the empty space here.  

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Let’s add another guide at the bottom of the 
two boxes to ensure their bottoms are aligned.  

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Now change the orange heading 
to ‘professional skills.’  

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Let’s push this text box down, and copy the 
black heading from the column on the left,  

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and paste it here. Align it, 
and rename it ‘whatever skills.’  

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Now push the text box up, 
and delete the excess text.

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Now let’s pick the line tool, and make a line at 
the bottom, and add black as the stroke color.  

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Actually, let’s change it to orange, so with the 
line still selected, pick the eyedropper tool,  

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and steal the orange color from 
the first rectangle we made.  

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As you can see on the left, the 
orange is picked as the fill color,  

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and not the stroke color, so just press 
‘X’, and it will switch to the stroke color.

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Let’s copy the orange heading, and paste 
it here, and rename it ‘references:’  

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Similarly, copy a black heading, and paste 
it here, and rename it ‘Mr. Jimmy Reece.’  

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Now place a guide at the left edge 
of the white rectangle on top.  

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We’re doing this to align the reference name to 
the rectangle above. Similarly place a guide at  

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the bottom of the headings at the bottom, and 
align their bottoms, if not aligned already.  

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Now make another copy of the black heading, 
and place it at the same line in the third  

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column. Place a guide at the left edge of the 
white rectangle, much like we did earlier,  

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and then align the name to this guide. 
Update the name to ‘Mr. Tony Jacob.’

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I just noticed that the ‘professional 
skills’ box doesn’t have the bullets.  

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I think because we copied this box 
from the personal profile section,  

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and that did not have any bullets, so no worries. 
Let’s select the text, and go to the burger menu  

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at the top right corner of the toolbar above, 
and select ‘bullets and numbering’ option.  

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Change the ‘list type’ to bullets, and update 
the tab position to 0.2 inch, and hit okay.  

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Remove the line space between the two bulleted 
sentences, and place the cursor anywhere on  

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the last line of the first bulleted sentence. 
From the paragraph formatting controls option,  

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go to the ‘space after’ tab, and 
increase the space to 0.125 inch.

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Lastly, grab the type tool, and make a 
text box below the first reference name.  

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Type in the position of the reference, 
and then name of the company.

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Actually, let’s push all of this a little above, 
so that we have some space for another line here.  

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Now let’s add the cellphone 
number of Mr. Jimmy Reece,  

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and select the text, and click 
the ‘body text’ paragraph style.  

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Now select just the cell number, and 
reduce the font size to 9 points.  

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Now copy this text box, and paste it to the 
right column for Mr. Tony Jacob. Perhaps we  

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can change the position of Mr. Tony to 
‘project head in the unknown company.’  

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Let the phone number stay intact, who cares, 
and now is the right time to check the preview.  

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Congratulations guys! You’ve just 
learnt how to create a CV in InDesign.

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Alright guys! That brings us 
to the close of the session,  

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and I’m going to see you in the 
next one, in just a bit. Good bye!