How to change from beginner to expert

Sounds to me like youve downloaded Lightroom CC & not Adobe Photoshop CC

First: go to Edit/Preferences then General: Uncheck the option Show Start workspace;

Then look at the right top corner, it can say something like ‘Essential Elements’. Click on that and change it to Advaned;

Then click again on Advanced then choose a bit lower in the menu Reset Advanced.

This is the most ‘expert’ you can get.

After that you can show and add panels to your own liking.

Hi katev4453316:

A couple of thoughts...

1. As a trainer, I don't expect a new user to know about workspaces—I cover them within the first hour of class. I would think your teacher would do the same thing, and if not, just ask them to. It's an essential part of working with InDesign.
2. As per IDEAS-Training, selecting Beginner does not impact how InDesign opens, but installing InDesign on a Windows computer with a touch screen does. InDesign will sense the touch screen and put you into an extremely simplified interface. Does your screen look like this?
   

The answer to your question is what everyone has been saying all along but their screen shots reflect a "normal" installation and not a Touch installation, so perhaps that is the issue. As per all the experts above: change the workspace. In my screen shot above, click on Touch and pick Advanced.

If this still doesn't help, please share a screen shot of your screen. We will happily help you, but we are just guessing until you show us exactly what is going on.

~Barb

Hey Kate

to switch from the beginner view to the more advanced view select the three lines at the top right of the screen and select Typography. You will switch your view from Touch to Typography which shows you all of those advanced features and options.

I think you misunderstand the use of the different InDesign Workspaces. As mentioned, there's no Expert or Beginners workspace, you can choose the various default ones that come with InDesign or set up your own. Instead of pouting, learn how to use InDesign from personal training, from books, such as the QuickStart Guides and Classroom in a Book series,and the online videos tutorials from Lynda.com and Pluralsite.com. And of course you can ask specific questions on this friendly forum. But InDesign is a professional application with a steep learning curve, you need to devote a lot of time to learning it, if you want to. Good luck and have fun with InDesign!

Hi Kate,

if you are back to class you could save your arrangement of tools and panels to a custom workspace. You can give it a name. And you could retrieve that custom workspace as a file and install that file with your version of InDesign at home. Provided you have the same version of InDesign at class and at home.

First read about workspaces here:

Workspace basics in InDesign

A custom workspace is an xml file that is stored in your user folder.

To get to that file open up the Scripts panel in InDesign under Window > Utilities > Scripts

Then right-click the User folder listed in the Scripts panel and do Reveal in Finder (Mac OS X) or Reveal in Explorer (Windows). Navigate to the folder in the hierarchie above. There you'll find the folder Workspaces with all your custom workspaces saved as xml files. Copy your custom workspace xml file(s) to e.g. an USB stick and install it in the same Workspaces folder of your InDesign version at home.

Regards,
Uwe

Read more about workspaces: Workspace basics in InDesign

Fenja

all the tools are there.  some are combined and require the icon to the pressed and held to reveal others.  if that's not enough help, what tool are you looking for?

you can also change your workspace to reveal different panels or customize your panels and their layout.

[moved from Creative Cloud Download & Install to InDesign]