Learning the Adobe tools

Hi. I've just joined the community and hoping to get some advice on how best to learn the Adobe products. My main interest (needed to enhance my publishing skills) is the Creative Suite InDesign but I'm not sure if I can just start with it or whether I need other Adobe skills. I have used Photoshop but I'm sure not to the degree that a true expert would have. Any advice; approach, books etc. would be appreciated. Thanks.

Any advice; approach, books etc. would be appreciated.
While you ask about InDesign you are in the Bridge forum. However any Creative Suite application needs a bit learning about basic usage.
Check Adobe TV ( tv.adobe.com ) for a set of nice video tutorials. About books, there are many books written and there will be many more to come.
But in general, it takes time to learn working with these applications, reading about it and watch tutorials certainly do help to speed up the learning time. Knowing it all is sheer impossible, getting an expert (I'm not one!) or even guru has a steep learning curve taking much effort.
Once getting the hang of an application a bit more then the small basic usage gives you a better workflow and more pleasure, that's for sure. Enjoy

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System
Provider
[ Name]
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1000
[ Qualifiers]
0
Level
2
Task
100
Keywords
0x80000000000000
TimeCreated
[ SystemTime]
2010-07-25T05:15:57.000000000Z
EventRecordID
78845
Channel
Application
Computer
Gatherum
Security
EventData
Photoshop.exe
11.0.2.0
4bf2d4f6
unknown
0.0.0.0
00000000
c0000005
65637275
e28
01cb2bb3471d87bf
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Photoshop.exe
unknown
b412e368-97ab-11df-8f49-001d60b646ef
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<Provider Name="Application Error" />
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<Task>100</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-07-25T05:15:57.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>78845</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
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<Security />
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<Data>11.0.2.0</Data>
<Data>4bf2d4f6</Data>
<Data>unknown</Data>
<Data>0.0.0.0</Data>
<Data>00000000</Data>
<Data>c0000005</Data>
<Data>65637275</Data>
<Data>e28</Data>
<Data>01cb2bb3471d87bf</Data>
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