How to Use Pages as “Artboards” in InDesign
Learn how use InDesign's Page tool to get document pages to act more like artboards.
In this InDesign video, David Blatner shows how to re-arrange pages on the pasteboard individually, so they act more like the artboards found in Illustrator. Using the Page tool, he re-sizes them and even uses the align tool to keep them neat and tidy.
This comes from David’s session with Anne-Marie Concepción and Mike Rankin, “Favorite Tips from InDesignSecrets” at CreativePro Week 2021.
This article was last modified on August 29, 2025
This article was first published on February 24, 2022
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