Go to the Parent Spread Applied to the Active Spread
To access the parent spread applied to the active page, you have to open the Pages panel, find out which parent was applied, then look up the parent in the...
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To go to and activate the parent spread applied to the active document page, you have to open the Pages panel and hover the mouse over the page symbol until the tooltip shows the parent’s name. Then you have to look up the parent in the top part of the Pages panel and double-click its icon to display it. This is tedious.
The script linked here makes things easier: Run it and it shows the parent of the active page. You don’t even have to have the Pages panel open. If you do this a lot, assign the script to a keyboard shortcut.
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18 March. 2017: Posted
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