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058 Inserting pages: Understanding the Pages panel

058 Inserting pages: Understanding the Pages panel - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

058 Inserting pages: Understanding the Pages panel

Look, I love InDesign as much as anybody, but even I have to admit that there are some features that are just plain confusing or non-intuitive. For example, take inserting pages. You know, adding pages to your document. This is something that almost everyone needs to do, but it's not always obvious how to do it. For example, in my document that I have open right now, I want to add a new page. So at the bottom of the Pages panel, I'll click on the Insert Page button. Where is that page going to be added do you think? Will it be at the end of the document or maybe after the pages that are visible here in the screen? What do you think? Let's try. I'll click the button and you'll see that InDesign added a page after Page 23. What the heck? Why did it do it there? Well, let's undo and I'll show you. Notice that when the Pages panel is open, you can single click on a page and it highlights very subtly, or you can single click on the numbers underneath a spread and it'll select both pages in…

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