I love using a Book palette (File > New > Book) to keep track of multiple InDesign documents — even if those documents are not really chapters in a book. For example, let’s say you’re making five ads for the same client, but each one is a different size. Simply make five InDesign documents and add them all to a book palette. (Don’t forget you can drag and drop InDesign documents from the desktop into the palette while InDesign is the frontmost application.)
Unfortunately, when you add documents to the book palette, InDesign assumes they are chapters in a book and immediately starts to update each file’s page numbering. The good news is that you can stop InDesign from wasting its time and energy: Before you start adding documents, select Book Page Numbering Options from the book palette’s flyout menu. Then turn off the Automatic Repagination checkbox. Ahhh… much better!
This article was last modified on December 18, 2021
This article was first published on May 24, 2006
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