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Inserting, deleting, and moving pages - InDesign Tutorial

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Inserting, deleting, and moving pages

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- [Instructor] You can use Indesign to make anything, from a one sided business card, to a book thousands of pages long but as soon as you go beyond that one page business card, you are going to need to learn how to manage your pages, adding them, moving them around, deleting them and so on, and that is what we are going to cover here. Now all of indesign's page features show up I two places. The page's sub menu underneath the layout menu, or the page's panel over here on the right side of my screen. But the page's panel has all the features from the menu plus a lot more so we will focus on that. Now this page's panel shows me little thumbnails, of each page in my document, and if I want to go directly to the second spread, I will simply scroll down a little bit and then double click on the numbers beneath the spread. That takes me right to the spread and it centers it in the window. But I hate having to scroll around inside this panel so I am going to make this page's panel a little bit larger by clicking and dragging in the lower left corner of the panel, and this layout in the panel where each spread is on top of the other is just not a very good use of screen real estate instead, I am going to open the page's panel menu up here in the upper right corner, I am going to come down here to view pages, and I am going to change this to horizontally. I think this is a much better layout but you can do it either way you want vertically or horizontally. Let us go ahead and make this a little bit smaller okay so now if I want to go right to page 28, I just double click on it. So the page's panel is a great way to move from page to page or spread to spread. Now I am going to add a new page by clicking the new page button down here at the bottom of the panel. When I click that, indesign adds a new page after whatever page is selected in the page's panel. I had double clicked on page 28 right? So when I clicked the button it added the new page after page 28. Then all of the other pages shuffled so they stay in two page spreads and that is because this is a facing pages document. If I want to add more than one page at a time, I can come up here to the page's panel menu, and choose insert pages. This let's me choose how many pages I want, let's say two pages, and it lets me choose where I want to put them, for example it could be after this page, before this page, or at the start or end of the document. I am going to put these two blank pages at the end of the document. Another way to get a new page in indesign, is to duplicate one of the pages that you already have I find this very useful, when I am laying out pages quickly, because I often already have a page that looks approximately like what I want, and in this case I want a duplicate of this spread up here. Pages 24 and 25, so I am going to select both of those pages, by clicking once on the numbers underneath the spread, and then, I will hold down the option or alt key on my keyboard, and drag these numbers, until I see a little vertical line appear. When I see that line it means put it here, after the spread, when I let go, indesign makes a duplicate of the spread right where I want it at. Now of course the page's panel acts kind of like a slide tray if you have a bunch of images, or slides in a tray, you can move them around anywhere you want right? So for example, if I want this new spread someplace else, all I need to do is click and drag it. I am going to drag it down, in between these spreads. There is my duplicate, and once again as soon as indesign puts it into place, all the pages reflow to keep the documents as facing pages. Finally, sometimes you need to delete pages and you can do that in the page's panel too. I will just select this page over here, this blank one. I select it by clicking once on it then I am going to select these other blank pages that I added. So I am going to hold down the command key on the Mac, or the control key on windows, and click on them. That lets me select pages that are not next to each other, or if you hold down the shift key, you can actually select continuous pages. You know like a range of pages. Now to delete them, all I have to do is click on that little trash can in the lower right corner. Indesign thinks those pages have something on them so it warns me, and I am going ahead and click okay. The more pages you have in your document, the more important it is to manage them well. So the better you know that page's panel, the more efficient you will be.

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