Previous to my time in CRS these reports would take graphic design assistants more than a month to complete due to the original template format having various live elements that required designers to spend a large amount of time editing individually and resulting in various errors in the formatting process. In my time I worked to update the report template file by automating some of the typesetting process using GERP styles, and table of content styles. As well as including various new table styles, image format styles, pull quote styles, and master page styles.

Thanks to this time spent within InDesign I learned to become extremely comfortable with working within the software and maxing out its capabilities. Lastly, for this template I created a new document for designers with tutorials on how to troubleshoot and use the template as many of the designers tasked to help with these reports are students at the university still early in their design career. These tutorials would ensure less time wasted and assurance for CRS supervisors that student assistants had all the tools needed to complete the work, and as a live document it would be easier to quickly document any changes made to the template or add new insights from future designers.