How do I reorder/rearrange parent pages on InDesign?

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December 7, 2022
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Every time I try to move a parent page, it applies the style rather than moving the page up or down. Please help!

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Correct answer defaultmxfy3kidiz3q

Drag and drop to reorder Parent Pages only works when I uncheck "Allow Documents Pages to Shuffle." With it on, I had the same problem.

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Laubender

Community Expert

@viastudio said: "… The parent name on the left must be selected to move, not the parent preview which causes the content overlap. "

Hi together,

I also do struggle with the reordering of parent spreads ( parent pages ) in a document.

Recently had to do it with InDesign 2023 version 18.1 on a Mac.

Maybe it's only me, but it worked better with the PC version of InDesign and hardly on the Mac.

For some documents it's working, for some it's not.

Maybe this is a thing of screen resolution in combination with the size of the parent pages in the Pages panel?

FWIW:

Also tried "moving" parent spreads [Object masterSpread] with ExtendScript.

This object has no move() method unlike ordinary document spreads…

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

Fritz Hansen

Inspiring

I am also having trouble reordering parent pages in the panel. It used to be easy to drag & drop them in a different order. I was unable to drag & drop a week ago but then was able to when I tried later; now it isn't working again. There is a "move parent..." menu item, but it's grayed out for some reason, and drag & drop isn't working. Perhaps a bug? Why have a "move parent" item if you can't use it?

Hmmm... I just opened a year-old ID file with several master pages (sorry, they were still called master pages a year ago) and tried dragging one to a different place in the panel. The vertical insertion line appeared momentarily between other parent pages but then was gone.

InDesing 18.1

Mac OS 12.6.3 Monterey

27" iMac late 2015

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charborob

Participant

The parent pages don't move at all. Drag and drop doesn't work if I try to reorganize their order. Worked perfectly on my (very) old version of InDesign. Am I doing something wrong?

InDesign 18.2.1

Mac OS 13.0 Ventura

24" iMac 2021

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

You cannot "move" Parent page assignments in the document page pane. You have to use one of the methods to assign a different Parent page to each document page, or group of pages, to change what parent is applied to what doc page.

You can do this by drag-and-drop or with a menu from the Parent page 'hamburger' menu at upper right.

Frans v.d. Geest

Community Expert

Move? In the upper part of the pages panel you try to move it up or down to order? I suspect you mean something different than 'move' a Parent page. Can you give us more info and maybe a screenshot?