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Creating and applying parent pages - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2024 Essential Training
Creating and applying parent pages
- [Instructor] A parent page, which many InDesign users call a master page, is kind of like a template for your pages. Anything that you put on a parent page will show up on your document pages, and that's why you should use parent pages for things like page numbers, headers, or a logo that you want on all or most of your pages. Now every document has at least one parent page and you can find that in the Pages panel. I'll open that up in the doc over here. There it is, A-Parent. All the parent pages are up at the top of the panel above the Document pages. I should point out that in older InDesign documents, you may see this listed as a Master. To see what's on that master page, you can double click on it. Now because this is a facing pages document, that is it has a left-hand and a right-hand page, I can see that the parent page also has a left and a right-hand page. So anything I put on the right-hand page will show up…
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