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Overriding parent page items

Overriding parent page items - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign 2023 Essential Training

Overriding parent page items

- [Instructor] As I mentioned in the last movie, InDesign protects parent page items when you're on a document page, you can't move them, you can't delete them, you can't even select them. Now, I've opened this document from my exercise files folder and it's the file called Long Doc version B, and this one starts up where we left off in the last movie. So you can see that I already have my running headers, or footers, or whatever you want to call them. Anyway, I'm going to zoom in down on this text frame on the left hand page. In an earlier chapter, I mentioned how you can use the zoom tool to zoom in, but I'm going to use a keyboard shortcut. I'm going to hold down Command space bar, on the Mac or control space bar on Windows. Now here on the Mac, you might see this spotlight menu pop up, but I'm just going to ignore that. Now I can just click and drag. Dragging to the right zooms in and dragging to the left zooms out.…

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