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Creating and applying parent pages

Creating and applying parent pages - InDesign Tutorial

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Creating and applying parent pages

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- [Instructor] A parent page, which many InDesign users call a master page, is kind of like a template for your pages. Anything that you put on a parent page will show up on your document pages and that's why you should use parent pages for things like page numbers, headers, or a logo that you want on all or most of your pages. Every document has at least one parent page, and you can find that in the pages panel. I'll open that up here in the doc. Up here at the top of the pages panel, you can see a parent page called A-Master. In newer InDesign documents, this will typically be called A-Parent. And to see that parent page, I double click on it. Now because this is a facing pages document, that is, it has a left and a right-hand page, I can see that the parent page also has a left and a right-hand page. So anything I put on the right-hand page will show up only on the right hand pages of my document. And anything on…

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