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• • April 8, 2015 at 8:42 am #74450
    Paulo

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    Hi,

    I´m brand new to indesign and gladly found this forum and
    hopefully you can clear a question for me :)

    This is what I need your help…

    I´m working on formatting a print book and every chapter
    starting on the right hand side, I have a corresponding
    graphic on the left hand side – so I created each file
    on spreads.

    The problem is that sometimes when I make some changes
    on a chapter (as it´s a big book, I have every chapter
    on a single file) it adds a single page to the top and
    not a spread and ends up messing the layout and putting
    the the chapter title on the left and so on.

    English is not my main language and being new to indesign
    it makes it even more challenging to explain it properly
    – hope I didn´t confuse you. :)

    Look forward to hear from you soon so I can move on.

    Cheers!
    Paulo

    PS. Is there away to add a screenshot on a post?
    My question is, how do I remove that nagging first page?

  • April 8, 2015 at 10:36 am #74456
    Colleen Shannon

    Member

    Use the first page as the first page of your chapter.

    Put the graphic on the last page of each chapter.

    Make sure each chapter has an even number of pages.

    Example:

    Chapter 1: 1 – 2 -3-4 (graphic)
    Chapter 2: 5-6-7-8 (graphic)

  • April 8, 2015 at 10:44 am #74457
    Paulo

    Member

    Hi Colleen,

    Thanks for replying quickly.

    Hey, great way to handle it. :)

    On the other end, I have basically all 40 chapters
    done with facing pages except for this one that
    after some editing decided to introducw a single
    (top) page and wanted to know if there was a way
    to delete or add a page so there were 2 pages on top.

    THANK YOU :)

    Paulo

  • April 8, 2015 at 11:05 am #74459
    Colleen Shannon

    Member

    The default in InDesign is one page on top (so, as you said, Page 1 is on the right). If you have 2 pages on top (a spread), then Page 1 would be on the left.

    Don’t fight InDesign on this! They know what they are doing!

    Your main concern should be that each chapter has an even number of pages, so that the first page of each chapter lands on an odd number. You may need to add a blank page before your graphic page to achieve this.

  • April 9, 2015 at 8:32 am #74499
    Paulo

    Member

    Colleen,

    Honestly I´m tempted to follow your advise and change 40 chapters
    one by one and put the left hand side image on the previous chapter
    as per your advise.

    However I´m late so I´d like to confirm if I may get away doing it
    the way I´m doing it and most importantly safely. (please see image)

    View post on imgur.com

    I appreciate your advise very much so I look forward to your reply.

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