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034 Changing document orientation and page size

034 Changing document orientation and page size - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

034 Changing document orientation and page size

We have a file here that looks pretty good except for one thing. It's Portrait; taller than it is wide, and we need a version which is Landscape; wider than it is tall. Fortunately, InDesign gives us a few tools that let us convert a file. The main way to convert from Landscape to Portrait, or vice versa, is to go to the File menu, choose Document Setup and then choose a different Orientation. I will set this to Landscape and click OK. As you can see, almost nothing changed except that the page behind the scenes rotated. I will zoom back here so that you can see that page rotated and everything else stayed the same. So that technique doesn't really give us any benefit at all. It just rotates the page, everything else we would have to do manually. So I am going to Undo that with the Command+Z or Ctrl+Z on Windows and I'm going to use a slightly different technique. I am going to use the Page tool. The Page tool here in the Tool panel was a new InDesign CS5, and it's a great tool for…

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