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Parent pages basics

Parent pages basics - InDesign Tutorial

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Parent pages basics

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We use parent pages in Adobe InDesign for repeated elements that you would want to use across a multi-page document and usually for magazines that would mean footers and headers and for instance in this case we have this footer here with the folio which is the page number and on the left side if I just jump over to the left side we have the same layout just mirrored so we have again the folio and some text and the most important thing to recognize is that a parent page element won't be directly editable within the document pages so you will see a dotted outline around these parent page elements so I won't be able to move them or make changes to them I will have to find the corresponding parent page and make changes there. Now in this document I actually have a more complex setup where I even have based on parent pages and it's a great example to understand why that is necessary but for now I just want to show you that the main parent page is this one here on the top the a parent which…

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