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Parent/child master pages

Parent/child master pages - InDesign Tutorial

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Parent/child master pages

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Catalogs, magazines, and books often have different sections that look similar, but aren't exactly the same. Now, that's easy to manage by making multiple master pages, but if you have 10 different master pages and you need to make a global change, a change that needs to show up on all of them, you're probably going to need to make that change 10 times. But not so if you set up your master pages using the Based On feature. Let me show you what I mean. Let's take a look at the Pages panel. We can see that in this document, we have one master page, something called A-7 col. That's short for seven columns. That master page A has been applied to pages 2 to 9. It isn't applied to page 1, and I can tell that because the little thumbnail doesn't have an A in the corner. Or, if you hover over it, you can see that None has been applied, whereas down here on page three, A-7 col has been applied. Let's take a look at that spread, pages 2 and 3. We can see that this spread is a little bit…

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