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Using a book file to consolidate multiple documents

Using a book file to consolidate multiple documents - InDesign Tutorial

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Using a book file to consolidate multiple documents

- [Instructor] If you're working on a really long document, you might be able to speed things up by breaking it up into individual documents and just working on them one by one. Or, perhaps you're working on a document that has obvious chapters or articles in it, and you can spread those among all your co-workers, and everybody can be working on an individual chapter, then you get done sooner. But in either of these scenarios, how do you get it all back together so that you can, let's say, export to a PDF? Well that's where InDesign's Book feature comes in. Go up to File, New Book, and immediately you have to name it and figure out where you're going to save it. Let's just call this, Landscape book. Notice the file extension, .indb, InDesign Book. And just put it back in the exercise folder and click save. Right now, there aren't any documents that are affiliated with the book, but let's fix that. You can either go to the Panel menu and choose Add Document. Or, this is the easy way…

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