Tip of the Week: Starting a Document on a Left-Hand Page
David Blatner shows the easy way to change a document so it starts on a left-hand page in InDesign.
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Want to change your document so it starts on a left-hand page (so that the first two pages make a two-page spread)? One way is to double-click the little triangle over the first page in the Pages panel,

and set its page number to 2 (or any other even number).


This article was last modified on July 7, 2021
This article was first published on February 26, 2019
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