Agree with SJRiegel, since you have a logo and copy on the top right of a right page and a logo at the top left of a left page, I would make each C and D Masters, which are based on A have a left and a right page - facing pages. This way, you can drag the right or left page of Master C or D down to the left or right page in your document and the logo would be on the correct side, top right or top left. to change a master to a 2 page spread: Select MP C in the pages panel, right click on the name and choose Master Options for "name of master". Then type in 2 for Number of Pages Now, recreate your content on both the left and right sides of the C or D master pages. This way, you can apply C to the right page and D to a left page as an example. ... View more

Here is a thought. We'll first make one zig zag for the widest curve. Draw a line, Effect > Distort & Transform > Zigzag . adjust to get the widest one you'll need. Object > Expand Appearance and Object > Ungroup. Now you have an editable line. Delete the rest of the line, so you have just one curve. make a copy and move to the other side of the page, and make the one on the left a skinny curve, by dragging in the bounding box. Select both wide and skinny curves. Choose the blend Tool in the Tools Panel. Click on the bottom point on both curves. type in how many curves you'll need. If you type in 10, you'll end up with 12, 10 in the middle and two on each side. Click ok to make the blend. You'll end up with this: Object > Expand to break apart the blend. Object > Ungroup to get separate curves Now, select all these expanded curves, click on one of the curves again to make it the KEY object (it will turn a thicker selection color) (You need to do this to type in a value in the next step) Open the Align Panel and in the very bottom under Distribute Spacing: type in "0" for the value and click the second button -  to align the edges of each curve with the edge of the next curve with "0" space between. This will align all the curves so they butt up to each other depending on their width. Now, you'll need to join the connecting points. Select all the curves with the direct selection tool and choose Object > Path > Join I hope this works for you! Laurie ... View more

Hi, I like the answer to hide the Shape Widgets, but in one of your responses you asked if you could draw a triangle in three moves. Instead of using the line tool to make a triangle with three separate lines, use the Pen tool. 1. Hit the "p" key on your keyboard and click three times, at each point of the triangle. 2. Then, hover over the first point you drew, wait for the little circle to show up next to the pen tool and click to close up the shape. 3. Now you have a true triangle, and can use the Direct Selection tool to move the corner points to reshape it. You can also choose to Fill or Stroke the triangle with a color. If you drew the triangle with three separate lines, then you couldn't easily move the location of the corner points, (you would have to move each point on both lines)  nor would you be able to fill it. ... View more

Hi, I agree with AM - that this calls for Master Pages. But, that said, here is another possible work around that may get your some results, and it free. Select the Title and set it to SPAN (choose the little "magic menu" to the very right of the control Panel and choose SPAN columns.) Then set that paragraph to span all columns. This way it will center on top of the two columns of the body text. Make a paragraph Style so it can easily be applied to each title. (this way you don't have to make a separate text frame for the title, it will be able to travel with your story. Another setting that I would apply to that Title paragraph style is KEEP OPTIONS (found in the same menu to the very right in the control panel.) In Keep Options, you can set the Title paragraph style to always start at the top of the next frame, column, odd or even page. Now, if you add text to the previous page, the title has been told that no text can exist above it on a page - so it will automatically jump to the next frame, on the next page. Not sure it is the most elegant answer, but I've been in a pinch like this and anything might just work! Good luck. ... View more

Choose Window > Workspace > Essentials Classic to return to the "familiar" workspace. or Add the Control panel back in - Window > Control In the Properties Panel, you can click the Options button under the Text Frame section to open the Text Frame Options dialog - Same as Cmd + B CTRL + B or Object > Text Frame Options. Just make sure to have the text frame selected with the Selection Tool. If you have the text selected with a cursor, you'll see Options, but it will be for Bullets & Numbering ... View more

Another thing to know, the color picked up from your photo will go to your Fill or Stroke, which ever is active. Hit the "x" key on the keyboard to switch which one is active, Fill or Stroke. Also make sure the image isn't Locked (Object > Unlock All on Spread). Check your Layers Panel to make sure nothing is locked either. When you have the Eyedropper tool active, and a locked layer selected it won't pick up the color. ... View more

A drop cap is a paragraph attribute. You apply the settings to a specific number of characters, at the beginning of the paragraph, and it will go down, into the paragraph a specific number of lines. The number of characters will be set according to the paragraph settings. If you want just the word like in your screen shot "initial" to be a different color, font and size, and NOT dropped into the paragraph, that can be done by setting up a Nested Paragraph Style. First make a style for your body text called Body with Red first words. Then make a CHARACTER style to make the word Red, bigger - call it Red Word Then open up your Paragraph Style (body with red first words) and on the list on the left, choose Drop Cap and Nested Style. You have to define a Nested Style here, NOT a Drop Cap. Click New Nested Style Button. Choose your Character style Red Word from the list Choose "through" Choose how many Words (1 or 2 or 3) Choose what you want the Red Word character style to stop at, if you picked 2 above and Words from the fourth position, this will always apply the red character style to the first 2 words, when this paragraph style is used. Confusing I know. get more info by looking up a video on using Nested Styles If you know that you ALWAYS want 1 or 2 characters dropped down 3 lines into your paragraph you can set it up in the top part of the dialog shown here, but the problem is when you want one paragarph to have 2 words, then another to have 4 words and the number of characters is different for each instance. ... View more

Yes, the blue box edges will show up around all frames, both text and graphic frames. You can turn them on and off by clicking on the first of the three little buttons at the top of your screen, (see screen shot) The button is called "View Options" (roll over to see the tool tip) If you remove the checkmark for Frame Edges, that will remove the blue box, which is just a visual to help you see how big and where the frames are located. They won't print. The purple and pink lines are turned on and off by choosing Guides. Hit the "W" key (make sure you are NOT in text with a blinking cursor) to turn them all on and off. Good luck! ... View more

One more thing Andross, I answered this question as if you were using Illustrator, but I now notice that you are indeed using InDesign. This sort of a logo should be created in Illustrator because you have many more export options when saving for other devices, and you have more flexibility with the Illustrator tools. If you re-do it in Illustrator, then you can save it as an .AI file format. Each time you need to use it in InDesign document, you simply File > Place the .AI file. then if you need to make a change to the logo, all instances of the logo would be updated in every InDesign document as you open them up,  the Links panel would make sure it has the correct and most up to date .AI file. I'm glad you got it to work in InDesign, in the future, try Illustrator! ... View more

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In Step 5 above, (first answer)  I said to click OK. that should be to click the COPY button. ... View more

If you want just a quick solution, the star solutions that have been mentioned above are very simple and quick. If you want to make it with one petal going around a circle, then to make the one petal, I would probably just start out by making an oval - tall and thin. You could also make a rounded corner rectangle. Any shape will work This is the guides, and the oval with a orange fill this is after the one oval has been rotated around the center point. It will look different depending on how thick, tall or wide your oval is and how many you choose. ... View more

Agree with Larry, I would save a copy of the original startup file - just in case. I use this to turn on Rulers for my new documents so I don't have to do that every time. ... View more

File > Place your sketch into IL. choose your sketch and click on the page. Note-Scan your sketch and save as a JPG or PSD format - doesn't really matter. You can also copy and paste. You just need the scan on the page in IL Select the sketch, choose the IMAGE TRACE button at the top of the IL window. This will turn the sketch into a vector (shapes) drawing. Now, choose Window > Image Trace and change the MODE to something that looks good, depending on the sketch this could be anything. Click the EXPAND button at the top (make sure it's still selected) Hit K key on the keyboard, this will select the Live Paint Bucket Tool in the Tools Panel (I would double click on the actual Live Paint Bucket tool, in the tools panel, and check mark the setting that says "CURSOR SWATCH PREVIEW") Choose a color in your swatches panel. You'll see three little squares above the tool, (if you turned on cursor swatch preview) representing the colors in the swatches panel. Click on an area in your sketch. The entire area will fill with chosen color. Hit the arrow keys on your keyboard to move to another color in the swatches panel. click again, on another shape with a new color. Continue coloring your sketch. Once you're finished coloring, You can choose Object > Expand... to take it from "live paint  mode" to actual objects so you can modify each object.  Hope this helps! ... View more

There are a couple of ways. One is to make one shape, we'll call it a petal, and duplicate it around a circle. 1. Make horizontal and vertical guidelines, so they cross in the middle of the page. This is so you have a mid point. 2. Make one petal, the one at the top (12 o'clock position) Keep it selected with the Selection tool. make sure its lined up on the vertical guide and above the horizontal guide. 3. Click once on the Rotate Tool in the tools. (or hit R on your keyboard) 4. Hold Option or Alt, then click on the mid point where the guidelines meet. (petal is still selected) 5. This brings up a dialog box. Type in 360/36 (the 36 is the number of petals that you want, I didn't count yours) This formula is saying that there are 360 degrees in a circle, and you divide 360 by the number of petals that you want. Your answer is the number of degrees the one petal is rotating to make the second petal. 5. Hit OK, then choose Object>Transform>Transform Again. This will make another petal. keep choosing Transform Again, or hit Command D or CTRL D to keep making petals around the circle, until you get back to the beginning. This will make an absolutely perfect shape. I think yours looks a little hand drawn, so you can them adjust each petal individually. Another way would be to 1. Draw a circle 2. Object>Path>Add anchor points (you'll have to play with the number to get what you want.) if you have 4 points on a circle, the default, then you'll have 4 petals. 3. Choose Effect>Distort & Transform> Pucker and Bloat. 4. Turn on Preview and move the slider towards Bloat to get what you are looking for. 5. Again, this is perfect, so you might have to choose Object >Expand Appearance to remove and apply the Effect so you can modify all the points with the direct selection tool. I hope one of these helps. ... View more