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Using (or not using) the InDesign Book feature

Using (or not using) the InDesign Book feature - InDesign Tutorial

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Using (or not using) the InDesign Book feature

- [Instructor] Before I continue with anchoring the images into the text flow, I felt like I needed to give you an explanation of why I'm not using this feature. So if you've worked on long documents in InDesign before, you may be familiar with the Book feature, which allows you to break your project up into chapters and then manage those chapters through the Book panel. And here I've done that. I've created a book just using a few of the chapters of Treasure Island. And you can see that we can manage the pagination through this. That means that each individual document is obviously, a lot shorter, a lot more manageable. But on the other hand, it means that if you make a change in one of these documents, you need to synchronize that change across all of the documents. And you do that using this thing called the style source, and you can move back and forth, determining which is the style source. Now there are plenty of movies in the training library about how to use the Book feature…

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