From the course: Designing an Annual Report in InDesign

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Add Based On master pages

Add Based On master pages

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Add Based On master pages

- Our next task in the creation of our 24 page annual report is to create some additional master pages. If we look at the finished version, we see that some pages have colored backgrounds. There is a light green and there's a light blue. So we need to create these as separate master pages. They're going to be based upon our original master page and will inherit all the properties of that master page. As well as the page numbering. So on the master pages spread I'll right click on a master and choose new master. And the key here is I am choosing to base this new master upon the original. And it starts out looking exactly the same. Lets turn the guides on by pressing W and I'm going to draw myself a frame that goes all the way from the bleed guide down to the bottom bleed guide and to the spine. So this one I am going to make blue and then change the tint to 50%. Now I'll duplicate that over to the right hand page. I'm going…

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