My review of this book echoes those before me insofar as the typos are concerned. I am transitioning over to InDesign from Pagemaker and thank goodness I know Adobe products as well as I do. In the first 25 pages there are over 5 major errors that cost time. They misnumber their example pages (ie: see page 3 but the picture they show is actually of page 2) to telling you the wrong menu to select (Go to type>text wrap, when in reality the text wrap command is under window>text wrap) Since I have a good knowledge of Adobe, I can overcome this, but if you are not mostly familiar with adobe's interfaces through photoshop, pagemaker, etc, this IS NOT THE BOOK FOR YOU. I love a lot of the CIB books too, but this one is a miserable experience. Hope they get a new editor before they lose more readers. Plus, once you open the classwork CD you can't return the book. Don't make my mistake!

I'm a really big fan of the classroom in a book series, so I bought the book despite other reviewers warnings of errors in the book. I'll confirm that the book had errors, sometimes annoying ones. The technical mistakes divide the book's useful customer base in half. If you feel you have enough software/Adobe experience to recognize when the book is wrong, then I'd still recommend this book, as the format of CIAB is great. If you're newer to professional software, and think you'll be thrown into disarray when the book instructs you to do something that doesn't work - then this may not be a good purchase. I'm glad I bought the book, as I now know how to use InDesign.

I am not a computer expert. I purchased InDesign Classroom in a book because I knew it would go step by step. Unfortunately there are fonts needed that are not on the disk (i.e. Adobe Garamond Pro, Graceless...?) Making a substitution does not always work. There are too many errors in the book. The biggest problem is trying to find an e-mail question site.

This is a great book, but it is littered with typos. My wife is using it to learn InDesign and has little DTP experience and is constantly being confused with mistaken directions. The illustrations supplied often to not match the given directions.

This book would be better for someone who is familiar with say, QuarkXPress and could easily tell whether the book is giving mistaken information.

The book is loaded with detail and could be an excellent teaching aid if someone had bothered to check it 100%. Advice for the novice desktop publisher... don't buy this book.

If the authors had bothered to proofread and actually test things out, this could have been just as good as the other CIB texts, such as those for PageMaker and Acrobat. Instead, I have to constantly check my Visual Basic book for which button/pulldown etc. REALLY performs the function I need, thus wasting valuable time.

I hope sincerely that the next book is edited and that someone actually TESTS it out before sending it off to the printer.