Working with Pages in InDesign

Name: Working with Pages in InDesign
Author: Patti Scully-Lane

Learn document formatting, automated functions, and how to apply content to document pages

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In this lesson, you will learn how to add and delete pages in Adobe InDesign. You can see over here on the right, I have my pages panel visible. If you don't see your pages panel, you can go up to the window menu to workspace and choose the advanced workspace. That will show you the pages panel up in the top right corner. In this document, I currently have four pages, but I would like to add additional pages to my document. There are a couple of different ways that you can add pages to documents in InDesign. The first is to go down here to the bottom of the pages panel and click on the create new page button. Now, you have to be careful when you click on the create new page button and make sure that you have the page selected that you want to add pages after. Currently, in my pages panel, I have page one selected, but if I want to add a page to the end of my document, I have to make sure I have page four selected. So I'm gonna double-click on page four and you can see right here, I do have a number four on that page, and I'm gonna click on the create new page button. As you can see, a page number five has been added to the end of our document. Now, if I only have one or two pages to add using this button down here at the bottom is easy enough, but say I had four or five more pages to add to my document. In that case, clicking on this button four or five times or even 10 times really can get kind of tedious. So up in the top right corner of your pages panel, in the panel menu, you can click on the panel menu and go right to the top to the insert pages option. So when we get the insert pages dialog box open, we do have the ability to choose how many pages we want. So say we're gonna do a 12-page document. I'm gonna add seven more pages and I can choose where I add those, if I want to add them before my page five, after my page five, or at the start or end of the document. I'm just gonna leave it at after page five because that's essentially the same as adding it to the end of the document. And we're gonna click on the OK button. So now in our pages panel, if we scroll down, we can see that we have 12 pages in our document. So that's how you can add pages to an InDesign file. Now, say with this document, we realized we really don't need 12 pages. We only need eight. Well, we can select that page 12 and click on the trash can icon at the bottom of the pages panel and this will delete that selected page. But again, clicking on this delete button, it's kinda similar to clicking on the create new button in that it takes a bunch of time in order to select and delete multiple pages. So what we can do is we can select our page number nine, we can hold down our Shift key and select page number 11. And then with those multiple pages selected, we can click on the trash can to delete those selected pages. So in this lesson, you learned how to add and delete pages from Adobe InDesign.

Intermediate Provider : Patti Scully-Lane 7 Lessons · 49m in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese

Course Description

This course focuses on using master pages to apply consistent formatting across multiple pages within your documents. You will learn how to add automatic page numbering, placeholder frames, and content to master pages that can then be applied to document pages so they all have a consistent look and feel.

What You'll Learn

Use master pages to apply consistent formatting across multiple pages in a document
Add and delete pages and create, apply, and overwrite master pages on document pages
Apply automatic page numbering using InDesign's automated functions
Add placeholder frames and content to master pages so document pages share a consistent look and feel

Key Takeaways

Master pages let you apply a consistent look and feel across multiple pages within a document.
Automated functions such as page numbering can be added to master pages and applied to document pages.
Master pages can carry placeholder frames and content that are then applied to the document pages.
Master items applied to document pages can be overwritten on individual document pages.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this course cover?

It focuses on using master pages in InDesign to apply consistent formatting across multiple pages, including adding automatic page numbering, placeholder frames, and content to master pages that can be applied to document pages.

What skills will I gain from this course?

The course builds skills in Adobe InDesign, Adobe PageMaker, document formatting, page numbering, page replacement, and works toward Adobe InDesign Certification.

What topics are taught in the lessons?

Lessons cover adding and deleting pages, creating master pages, applying master pages, applying automatic page numbering, applying placeholder frames to master pages, overwriting master items on document pages, and adding content to master placeholders.

What will I be able to do with master pages after this course?

You will learn how master pages can apply content to document pages so that all pages share a consistent look and feel, including page numbering and placeholder frames.