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Changing page size and margins - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2023 Essential Training
Changing page size and margins
- InDesign lets you change the size of a document or adjust its margin guides after you've created it, but before you try it you always need to ask yourself two questions. First, do you want to change just one page or all the pages in the document? And second, do you want the objects on your page to move or scale when you change the document or do you want them to stay the same? For example, here in this magazine document I'm going to jump to the second spread by pressing Option or Alt+Page Down. I can change the size of a single page by choosing the page tool in the tool panel, that's the third tool down. Then when I click on a page it gets these corner and side handles which seem to let me resize it, but when you let go of the mouse button, it always snaps back to where it was. The trick here is that you need to hold down the Option or Alt key when you drag, that way it stays the size you choose. Or you could use the…
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