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Creating and applying additional parent pages - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Designing a Book
Creating and applying additional parent pages
- [Speaker] The next task is to create some additional parent pages and apply them when necessary. We need two more, and the purpose of them is that we will apply them to the front matter so that we remove the page numbers and also so that we can remove the page number from the top of the page of the chapter opening pages and have it appear at the bottom center. I'm going to come to my A parent, right click on that and choose new parent, prefix B, let's start out with the front matter. So I will call it front matter. I am basing it upon A parent, two pages. There it is. All we need to do here is delete these items. Now because they are parent page items, to unlock them, we will need to hold down command and shift or control shift. Just drag over them that now unlocks them, and we can press delete. Let's come back to the A parent. New parent, prefix for this one will be C. I'm going to call it chapter open. Again, it will be based on the A parent. This is how it starts out. Let's turn…
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