From the course: InDesign Secrets
210 Working with pasteboard options - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
210 Working with pasteboard options
- You know this gray area around the sides of the pages? It's called the pasteboard, and at some point, I think in the first version of CC, they started making the pasteboard gray to match the interface color. I've never gotten used to that, so I like to go up to the View menu and choose Match Pasteboard to Theme Color. I'll turn that off, and now I have a nice white pasteboard. I just like it that way. It's my preference, and speaking of preferences, there's another pasteboard option that a lot of people want to change but often don't know how, and that is how to change the size of your pasteboard. By default, you just have a little bit of space above and below your pasteboard. Let me zoom back by pressing command or control minus. I'll press that a couple of times, and you can see that you have about an inch or two and a half centimeters above or below the page. You also have one page width to the left and to the right of your spreads, and that's usually enough, but sometimes you want to put a lot of stuff out on your pasteboard, or maybe you have something really big that you're working with, so people try all kinds of things to make the pasteboard bigger. For example, you can make the page size bigger and then put some object way out on the outside of the bigger pasteboard and then make the page smaller again, and that works, but it's a big hassle. Wouldn't it be cool if there were some easier way? Fortunately, there is. It's a setting in the Preferences dialog box, which you can go to by pressing command K on the Mac or control K on Windows. There are so many little options inside this dialog box that it's not surprising that most InDesign users never look closely inside the Guides & Pasteboards pane. If you look down here at the bottom of this pane, there it is, Pasteboard Options, and this controls the horizontal and vertical margins, that is, how wide and how tall your pasteboard is. Here, I'll make them bigger. I'm going to change the horizontal margins to something like 12 inches, and I'll set the vertical margins to something larger like six inches. When I click OK, suddenly the pasteboard gets bigger. How much bigger? Well, I can zoom back to fit the whole pasteboard in the window, and the shortcut for that is command, option, shift, zero on the Mac or control, alt, shift, zero on Windows. That shows everything on the pasteboard, and, ta-dah, you can see it's way bigger. Of course, it's not just for this spread. If I zoom even further back by pressing command or control minus, you'll see that it's larger on all of the spreads in my document. So there you go. Now that you know how to make the pasteboard larger, you'll have all the space you need to lay out your documents.
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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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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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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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