Rotate Multiple Spreads
If you have many spreads to rotate, even the more easily accessible menu commands for rotating spreads are no good at all. Time for a script to rotate all spreads...
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Spread rotation is buried rather deeply in the Pages fly-out and context menus, which makes it tedious to use. One solution is to make the spread-rotation commands more accessible (see Spread rotation), but if you have a document with dozens of spreads that need to be rotated, even the more easily accessible menu commands become a drag. Imagine a rotated table that carries on for 26 pages; you don’t want to rotate those spreads one by one – let alone rotate them back later.
The script, linked below, rotates all document spreads that contain a text frame that’s rotated. Later you can clear the rotation by running the script again. When you run the script it shows this window:
Click OK to rotate all spreads in the active document. If you want to rotate the rotated spreads back, run the script again.
Version history
21 Nov. 2019: The script now temporarily changes the pageboard margins to make scrolling easier.
27 Mar. 2016: Posted.
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This article was last modified on August 22, 2026
This article was first published on February 5, 2026
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