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January 25, 2023
Question

Auto update pages when changing to left or right

  • January 25, 2023
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I'm sorry if this has been answered somewhere, but I couldn't find anything after a bunch of different searches.  

 

I build a magazine every month with facing pages.  I've set up parent pages with headers at the top, but all of that is aligned with the outside edge of each page.  I command-click on the header's text box in a page based on the parents in order to add text to the header.  Is there any way for that text to automatically switch if the page moves from the left to right-hand page?  As it is now, if a page switches sides, I have the text box I edited, and then "locked" object from the parent page underneath it.  I can't figure out a way of Indesign knowing to just move the text where it should be based on the parent page template.

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Willi Adelberger
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 25, 2023
  1. Make a left and right parent page.
  2. Don't overlap the spine in the parent page.
  3. Never override parent page running headers on the actual pages.
    This causes problem with electric formats.
James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
January 25, 2023

This, too. I gave my answer because it's not clear if the OP only means page headers, or elements in the content as well.

 

James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
January 25, 2023

I think you're looking for this option, which shows up only if you have correctly defined the document to use Facing Pages:

 

The Toward/Away from Spine alignment settings do just that. Typically, for content (like a header) to be on the outer edge, you'd set its style to Away from Spine.

 

Participant
January 25, 2023

This would work, except that the bleed is built into the paragraph shading.  I've set up 2 versions of the paragraph style with the shading offsets different for left/right side resepctively, because I couldn't figure out a way for that to be automatic either.  Sounds like I might be hoping for something impossible.  Heck, I have fix the bleed on page backgrounds by hand if the pages switch too, so I guess it's the same with this.