Applying Single Page of Parent Spreads to Document

Question

I have multiple parent spreads in a template. Each parent spread has 2-8 pages. Oftentimes I just want to apply one of those pages to my document, and when I highlight that single page and drag & drop on to my blank page in my document, it automatically applies the first page of that parent spread. I've also tried highlighting that single page, right clicking "Apply Parent to Pages", inserting the page number in my document, and it still does the same thing. Every time. What am I doing wrong? Help!

Peter Spier · Accepted Answer

That would be my guess. I don't know the code under the hood, but I believe InDesign matches rthe page postion from the Parent/Master to the same page position in a spread with matching page count, but has no way to determine which page to apply if the count is different so applies the first page by default.

Laubender · Answer

Hi defaultk8pvdl770xro,Peter is right on this. That's the way parent pages are working.Simply do a new parent page and copy/paste the desired contents from one parent page, the one with 8 pages, to the new one that fits your number of document pages on a document spread. Regards,Uwe Laubender( Adobe Community Professional )

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