InDesign CS Tips: Working with Pages
Anyone who’s worked on setting up a new publication knows the fluid nature of pages. And while we would never advocate randomly reshuffling pages during production, we also know that during the initial design process, document structure occasionally does change. Pages must be moved, reordered, renumbered, and placed into cohesive sections.
Adobe InDesign’s approach to working with these fundamental page parameters is very similar to that of other page-layout programs yet different enough to warrant this primer on how to work with multi-page documents in InDesign.

In this excerpt from “Adobe InDesign CS Bible,” you’ll see how to apply numbering to sections, add pages to a document, move through pages using the Navigator pane, and more.
We’ve posted this excerpt as a PDF file. All you do is click the link “Working with Pages” to open the PDF file in your Web browser. You can also download the PDF to your machine for later viewing.
To open the PDF, you’ll need a full version of Adobe Acrobat (5 or higher) or the Adobe Reader, which you can download here:
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To learn how to configure your browser for viewing PDF files, see the Adobe Reader tech support page.
Excerpted from “The Adobe InDesign CS Bible” by Galen Gruman. Copyright © 2004 Wiley Publishing. All rights reserved. Reproduced here by permission of the publisher.
This article was last modified on March 10, 2025
This article was first published on October 6, 2004
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