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• • August 15, 2013 at 1:07 pm #64881
    Francesca

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    My office started using InDesign last year to better create marketing materials, and now that we’re getting more familiar with it we’d like to start using it for reports. Generally, the reports that our office generates are made up of several different sections (each section a separate Microsoft Word file). I’d like to have the first page of each section have different graphics from the secondary pages. I’ve set up two different master pages – one for the first page and one for the secondary pages. When I add text from Microsoft Word onto the first page (using the Place command) it automatically flows the text, but only uses the first page master page. Is there a way I can get the text to automatically flow so that the first page uses the first page master page, but all the other pages use the secondary master page? I know I can apply the secondary master page after the fact, but I was hoping to find a solution that would automate things to make processing larger documents easier.

    Thanks!
    Francesca

  • August 15, 2013 at 4:33 pm #64884
    David Blatner

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    No, InDesign doesn’t do that automatically. You would have to flow the text and then apply the master pages. Alternately, you could create a template document with the correct text frames already in place on each page, and each page assigned with the correct master page. Then you would just place the text into the first page’s frame, and it would flow through all the pages automatically. That’s probably the easiest.

    There are other tools for more complex auto-flowing, such as: https://in-tools.com/products/plugins/autoflow-pro/ but I’m not sure you need that for the relatively simple job you’re describing.

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