From the course: InDesign Secrets
161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items
- [Voiceover] When you're working with a long document like a magazine or a catalog, it's really important to keep track of what's happening with repeating elements like headers and footers on your document pages. I want to give you a couple of tips on how to manage footers, specifically page numbers, when they become obscured by other elements on the page. So here we're looking at a magazine spread, and the footers are behaving nicely. They're in the white area at the bottom. Plenty of room to read them and the footers are coming from the master page. You can tell because I can't select them here, and they are bordered by this dotted green outline, and the dotted outline tells me that it's coming from a master page. So it's been properly set up. Your footers and headers should always be coming from the master page. And if we look at the master page, we can see the original items, and that they have a current page number placeholder. So it's working perfectly fine for this spread. Let's look at a different spread. If I come to this spread, you can see that it's obscured by this picture on the left. On this spread, it's obscured by the picture and the background color. Now the fix for that is to move the folio to a layer that's higher than where the my page backgrounds and my images are going to appear. Using the "Layers" panel just for creating one layer, just for your master page items, is a good idea. So here we can see the designer did use a number of layers, but they left the master page items on the bottom. So I'm going to move those above background, and above picture. And now we can see, here they are. They appear just fine. One problem, though, is that the master page folio on the left might be a little hard to read, being dark. But let's see if it's going to hurt anything else. Over here, that's pretty hard to read. Maybe if we made it a different color. Or especially on the front spread. The footers do appear above the picture, which is good, but they're really hard to read, which is bad. So what we want to do is make them a different color. There's two ways you can go about this. One is you can override by "Command+Shift+Click", or "Control+Shift+Click", which I'll do to one of these, which allows me to edit it. It frees it up from being on the master page, and then I can select the text, and color it. But, in general, I'm philosophically opposed to overriding master page items. I would prefer to just apply a different master to this page. So I'm going to "Undo". And I just did "Undo Override Master Page Items". And, by the way, if you're not sure if something's been overridden on the page, here's where it's hiding: in the "Pages" panel menu, in "CC" it's now part of the "Master Pages" flyout. So here you can choose "Remove All Local Overrides". In earlier versions of InDesign, "Remove All Local Overrides" was part of the main panel menu. I have already created another master page called "Lightfooter", as you can see. It's based on Master Page A, but the only thing that's different is that I have colored the type white, or paper, and the rule above it is also paper. If I look at the "Swatches" panel, you can see the type is colored with "Paper". So let's go back to "Pages", come back over here, and now I just want to apply a different master to this page, and this page as well. That looks great. By dragging and dropping just one page at a time, instead of the whole spread, you have complete control over how you want these to appear. So, on this page for example, I might want the footer on the left to be white. So I'll drag this guy right on top of page 50, and there you go. So we have a light-colored footer on the left, easy to read, and a dark-colored footer on the right, also easy to read. By using master pages and layers intelligently, you can gain control over the headers and footers in your long documents.
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229 Batch converting ID files to current version with the Book panel6m 9s
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230 Getting around InDesign limitations6m 46s
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231 Creating better callout lines with effects and object styles5m 47s
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232 Swapping column and row information in tables6m 9s
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233 Making bigger text link targets4m 52s
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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111 Packaging images on the pasteboard3m 32s
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112 Automatically updating figure references for books6m 9s
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113 Adding Tool Tips to your form fields in InDesign3m 21s
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114 Setting poetry, flush left, center on longest line3m 54s
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115 Use bookmarks to navigate long documents in production4m 57s
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107 Using the same keyboard shortcut for two different commands with the Context feature5m 22s
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108 Making a text highlighter3m 33s
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109 Updating an interactive PDF without losing work done in Acrobat5m 30s
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110 Adding custom text at the beginning of each line automatically4m
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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047 Specifying an exact amount of space between objects5m 17s
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048 Fixing last lines that are too short8m 16s
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049 Creating web graphics from your InDesign artwork7m 20s
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050 Using “No Language” to suppress unwanted hyphenation, spell-checking, and smart quotes2m 48s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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027 Creating running heads using variables5m 1s
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028 Live Caption tips and tricks8m 3s
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030 Making two-state buttons in interactive documents5m 5s
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031 Moving pages from one document to another3m 15s
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008 Some great tips and tricks for the Swatches panel9m 40s
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010 Using the INX and IDML formats to fix problems4m 46s
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