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Make newly added pages appear right next to current page on spread by default?

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    • September 30, 2013 at 1:16 pm #65555
      Lala Lala
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      If I have a single page document and I want to add a page, by default it appears on my spread
      below and to the left of my current page.

      I understand this is for book-type layouts, but I’m just doing simple 2 page spreads.
      I want the 2nd page to appear directly to the right of the current page.
      What’s annoying is, I can’t just drag it there in the pages panel, until I uncheck “allow selected pages to shuffle”.
      It’s counterintuitive, I must “disallow” something to gain flexibility and “allow” my page to go where I want?

      Anyway, does anyone know how to change this default behavior, so clicking add page immediately results in a page
      to the right of my current page?

    • October 4, 2013 at 8:39 am #65637
      Lala Lala
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      No luck? Hope my question makes sense.
      What I ended up doing is binding a keyboard shortcut to that “Allow Document Pages to Shuffle”.
      Whenever I consider adding a page, I immediately hit that keyboard shortcut so the new page
      appears where I want, directly to the right of the existing page.

      A minor annoyance but thank you Adobe for the flexible keyboard shortcuts, it solves many problems.

    • November 6, 2013 at 2:35 pm #66112
      Alex Rollo
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      Don’t know if you still need an answer to this. I wrestled with this problem for a long time before I discovered the ‘allow pages to shuffle’ toggle like you found.

      To save you having to make any keyboard shortcuts – if a setting is required as the default for you – all you do is make the selection BEFORE you open your first page – that way every page opened from then on will be placed right next to the previous one.

      So, before any document is opened, go to the wee drop-down menu in the page tab, un-tick the option to shuffle the pages, open a new document and then add a page. Not only will it place the page where you want it, but the next time you open InDesign – that option will not be ticked.

      This works the same for any options (as far as I’m aware)

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