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Expert: InDesign Pro - 3/10/2009


Question
What happens if you hold down the Shift key while creating an object using frame tool? And how do you apply a master page to a document page?

Thank you for your help!!

Answer

Applying Master Pages
Hi Jade, thanks for the question.

The general result in holding the Shift key in InDesign is to constrain proportions. Basically, maintaining the width and height rations of your object as you scale it manually. If you hold Shift while creating the frame, it will create a perfect square (or circle or polygon).

There are many ways to apply a Master Page to a document page, but I tend to do more than one at a time, so here's the easiest way to do that.

Open your Pages panel. The click on the fly-out menu of the Pages panel (it's on the top-right corner of the panel, and it looks like three lines). Then, click on Apply Master to Pages. That will open a smaller dialog box. In the dialog pages field, choose which Master you want to apply and then the pages you'd like to apply it to. You can use continuous numbering (2-4) or non-continuous numbering (2, 4) or both (2-4, 5, 8-10, 14).

If you're only applying a Master to one page, you can also just right-click on the page in the Pages panel and the dialog box will automatically insert the page number you've selected.

Hope this helps, good luck.

Scott
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    CommentWow! Thank you SO much!! You were very thorough in answering my question and it made it very easy for me to understand and follow! Thank you again very much!! Sincerely, Jade


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