Reply To: The Bleed and Artwork

Not really sure what you mean by ‘move artwork to bleed edge which causes my artwork to lose a section of it’

Yes if you want to have the artwork bleed off the page then you need to make the artwork bleed off the InDesign page and yes you will loose the part that extends past the edge of the page.
Of course bleed will only be the images not any text this will need to stay within the margin normally about 12.5mm to 25mm (I know it depends on the layout) from the pages edge, run the text into the bleed and some of it will be trimmed off.
You need the set up bleed as per your printers instruction, this is normally between 2.5 and 5mm.
This is the part that disappears when you switch from NORMAL to PREVIEW.

Output you file to a PDF with all printers marks and you will see where the trim is, where the bleed ends etc. This way you will see what will print and what will be trimmed off during finishing, just make sure nothing vital is in the trim.