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The Pages Palette

You can access the Pages palette from the Window menu (or press F12). Like the QuarkXPress Document Layout palette, it displays master pages in one section of the palette and document pages in another (see Figure 28-1).

Unlike XPress, InDesign lets you customize the way the pages are displayed in the Pages palette. You can make it look like XPress if you want: Select Palette Options from the Pages palette menu and you'll see the Palette Options dialog box (see Figure 28-2), which contains the following options:

• Icon Size. Sets how large the icons appear.




• Show Vertically. Displays the sequence of page icons as columns like QuarkXPress, which is the default. Unchecking the option displays the pages horizontally.




• Pages on Top/Masters on Top. Determines which side of the Pages palette the pages and masters icons occupy. The default setting, Masters on Top, matches the arrangement in XPress.




• Resize. Determines how the page and master areas change when you resize the Pages palette. If you want the size of the pages section to stay the same and let the masters area resize, which is the way XPress works, choose Masters Fixed. If you want it the other way around, choose Pages Fixed. Choose Proportional to let both areas resize proportionally as you resize the palette.

Adding Pages

As with QuarkXPress, you can add pages by dragging a master page icon from the master page section of the Pages palette to the document page section of the palette.

If you drag an individual page from the master to the document section of the Pages palette, InDesign creates one page. You can also select and drag a multiple-page spread from the masters section of the Pages palette into the pages section by dragging the page numbers under the spread.

In addition, you can use the New icon at the bottom of the Pages palette to add more pages to a document (the pages are added following the currently-selected page in the Pages palette). You can use this button to add multiple pages in one step by holding down the Option/Alt key while clicking the New button. The dialog box that appears (see Figure 28-3) is the same one that appears when selecting the Insert Pages command from the flyout menu of the Pages palette. In this dialog box you can enter the number of pages to add, their location in the page sequence, and which master page should be used to format them.

Arranging Pages

Like QuarkXPress's Document Layout palette, the InDesign Pages palette allows you to re-arrange pages by dragging page icons. A thin vertical line appears in the location where pages will move if they're placed between two spreads or between individual pages in a non-facing pages document.

You can also move a page so that it breaks apart an existing spread. Drag the page to be moved so that it is placed between the pages in a spread. An arrow appears showing the direction in which the spread pages will be relocated.

Deleting Pages

Deleting pages from the Pages palette is also similar to QuarkXPress. You can select a page or group of pages to be deleted and click the Delete icon at the bottom of the palette. (Select more than one with Command/Ctrl for non-contiguous pages, or the Shift key for contiguous page ranges.) With the flyout menu from the Pages palette you can also select Delete Page(s) or Delete Spread(s) depending upon what is selected in the palette.