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• • August 31, 2019 at 8:52 am #1183063
    Tomaž Švagelj

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    I wrote most of a book – well, of a manuscript for a future maybe book – using Word and then decided to finished it with InDesign. So I some three weeks ago started the program first time in my life and when I almost finished, realised that one of chapters/documents is at the begining too long. To remove unwanted pages I selected them and clicked Delite Spreads, becouse the button Delite Pages is “missing”. Didn’t work, so I selected the pages and hit the Delete button on the panel – nothing happened. Next I selected the pages again to cut and paste them to some other folder. I didn’t, because there are no buttons like Cut Pages or Cut Spreads. Eventually I even selected just needed pages, clicked Options menu and then tried click Print Pages. But there is no such button (I didn’t forget the right click with cursor on page icon neither – same thing)! What am I doing wrong?
    Secondly, the text itself is complete, not a single word is missing, but at the footers of some pages there are unwanted empty spaces, large enough for two or more lines, one page is even almost empty. Why is that?
    InDesign CS6, iMac 2011, El Capitan 10.11.6

  • August 31, 2019 at 11:24 pm #14324207
    Dieter Stockert

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    Deleting pages should work. Maybe this is helpful:
    
    Do you have primary text frames on your master page? So you may want to look here:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqHm_S4FpEo

  • September 1, 2019 at 2:04 am #14324206
    Tomaž Švagelj

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    Hi Dieter,
    thank you for your answer. My primary text isn’t on my master page and deleating pages should work, I know, I found it also in the book InDesign CS6 on Demand by Steve Johnson, p. 65, but at me just didn’t work. Now I somehow manage deleate them – I don’t know exactly how, right now I probably couldn’t repeat it. Yes, I know: practice, practice, practice. :-)
    The other problem, unwanted empty spaces, unfortunately remain …

  • September 1, 2019 at 7:13 am #14324205
    Theunis De Jong

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    Empty space at the bottom of a page is almost always caused by your paragraph style Keep settings. Keep in mind that these do exactly what you ask!

    “Keep all lines together”: no matter how long a paragraph is, if it’s too long for a page it will move to the next one. “Keep with next paragraph”: no matter what, this is super-glued to to next paragraph and it will never break between them at the bottom of a page. “Keep with previous”: the same, but for the preceding paragraph.

    Deselect all of these options for all of your paragraph styles. For a basic text book, you only need a few!

    1. Basic widow/orphan settings for plain text: at the start and end of a paragraph, keep 2 lines together.
    2. Basic Heading settings: keep all lines together, and keep the entire heading with the next paragraph.

    That’s really all. You still may have room for ‘several’ lines at the bottom of a page, but if you look at the next page it should be obvious why that is. (If it starts with a heading, for example. Typically, you wouldn’t want a heading at the bottom of a page.)

  • September 1, 2019 at 8:46 pm #14324204
    Tomaž Švagelj

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    “Keep 2 lines together” works: now in entire book I have just on ONE page at the bottom empty space (for 8 maybe 9 lines). Thank you.

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