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InDesign’s Rotate Spread View feature has been saving users from getting a pain in their necks since CS4. It allows you to rotate the display of a page and the surrounding pasteboard 90 or 180 degrees onscreen—without affecting the output at all.
Normally, you’d rotate a spread by going to the Pages panel menu and choosing Page Attributes > Rotate Spread View, and then choosing the angle you want.
But there’s an even quicker way to rotate a spread view. If you have Enable Multi-Touch Gestures turned on in Interface Preferences (which is the default), and you use an input device like a trackpad where you can use gestures, then you can rotate just by twisting two fingers in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction.
It works with any tool. Just make sure you don’t have anything selected first, otherwise the selection (and not the spread) will be rotated.
This article was last modified on July 8, 2021
This article was first published on September 8, 2015
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