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Gail Bergan
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February 17, 2015
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Rearrange pages in a newsletter layout?

  • February 17, 2015
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I've got a simple 3-column newsletter layout where some information repeats from one month to the next. But the repeated pages are less important in the subsequent months, so I'd like to deemphasize them. Is it possible in Frame 11 (Windows 7) to simply move these pages to the back once a layout is complete? This is something that even Pagemaker could do, way back when, but I can't find an easy way to do it with this program. Am I missing something? Thanks for any tips you can give,

Gail

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    Correct answer Arnis Gubins

    FM is designed to work by flow content not pages, so it really depends upon how you created the pages and the text frames for the content. If your articles are in separate flows, then you can insert disconnected pages in front of those that you want to go the back and add new content on the newly inserted ones. If everything is in the same flow, then just add the new content at the front.

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    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis GubinsCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    February 19, 2015

    FM is designed to work by flow content not pages, so it really depends upon how you created the pages and the text frames for the content. If your articles are in separate flows, then you can insert disconnected pages in front of those that you want to go the back and add new content on the newly inserted ones. If everything is in the same flow, then just add the new content at the front.

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    Gail BerganAuthor
    Inspiring
    February 19, 2015

    Thanks Arnis. Of course you are right.

    Bob_Niland
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    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
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    February 19, 2015

    Optimal FM layout has everything except the Master Page content in the main flow (typically Flow A), or anchored to that flow, with Master Pages assigned via the mapping table. When laid out like this, great swaths of content can be trivially cut and pasted, then re-assigned to their Master Pages with an AMP operation.

    If you've inherited a document with ransom note page composition (random frames and other content on the page and not anchored to the flow), and if the content of those pages is not expected to change, one hack is to render the document (or just the pages) to PDF, then import the PDFs of the static pages into a new version of the document having a monolithic Flow.

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