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Use navigation buttons - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Interactive Documents
Use navigation buttons
- [Instructor] With InDesign's button tools, you can create navigation buttons that readers can use to move through the pages of your document. Let's see how to do that. We'll start by taking a look at how this document in our exercise file is set up. In the Pages panel, I'll double click on the A-Master to jump to it. Now this is the master page, on which all of my other document pages are based, so changes I make here, like adding navigation buttons, will be reflected throughout the document. I want my navigation buttons to appear at the bottom of each page in this purple area on the right hand side. So let's create our navigation controls. The first thing to do is to setup a layer in the Layers panel to keep our navigation controls above everything else, so they're always visible and accessible. So I'll go to the Layers panel, I'll option or alt + click on the New Layer button, and name it Nav. I'll click OK. Then I'll select the text frame containing the page number and these…
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