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• • May 6, 2017 at 7:10 am #94286
    Carole Caruso

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    My 600 page guide for InDesign CS6 is literally falling apart. I am now working my way through about the third pass of the InDesign lessons on Lynda.com. I have yet to find a solution to the problem I am having. I am using CS 6 with Windows 7.

    I am writing a book with many graphics. It has facing pages, two columns, with page 1 starting on the right page. Everything is fine. Then if I go to the Page Panel and move ONE page or add ONE page within the document, I get the red light. (I am not used to having a program scold me.)

    If I add two pages so that the pages move but stay in the same column, all is well. But if I add only one page or move only one page that then makes a page already there shift to the other column, and on comes the red light. I am told that my graphic captions and some of the placed text are overset.

    I have tried every way I can think to move or add just one page, but unless I add or move the pages by pairs, on comes the red light and away go both my graphics captions and some of my text. There is no way I can continue if I can’t move or add pages.

    What am I doing wrong?

    Thanks.

    Carole

  • May 6, 2017 at 8:46 am #94287
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Carole, when you add or remove a single page in a facing-pages document, the master page items get applied/re-applied/changed. It’s hard to know what exactly is happening in your situation, but it’s almost certainly to do with how your master pages were set up.

    In other words, when you add a page, then your left-hand pages turn into right-hand pages, and vice versa. That can cause issues.

  • May 6, 2017 at 10:50 am #94288
    Carole Caruso

    Member

    Thanks, David. I thought there must be a way to move pages to wherever you wanted them by using the Pages Panel. Seems logical to me. However, if you say not, I just dragged the pages into the pasteboard and dragged them to where I wanted them. This is a little extra work, but it works. And it teaches me to try to get it right the first time. Or am I going to get into more difficulty this way?

    Carole

  • May 7, 2017 at 1:42 pm #94300
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    You can move pages around with the Pages panel. I didn’t say you cannot do that. I simply meant that when a left-hand page turns into a right-hand page, that can cause issues (depending on how your master pages are set up).

  • June 3, 2017 at 9:31 am #95029
    Carole Caruso

    Member

    It took just a few weeks after posing this question and getting the issues that David warned of. I have identified them. I have corrected them. I learned my lesson. I will never do it again.

    Thank you, David.

    Carole

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