Remove the Letter V layout in Pages panel

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December 21, 2022
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Recently my Pages panel has an indication of a Letter V layout. What does this mean? I don't know how/why it is there. There is no Alternate Layout indicated.

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Correct answer Laubender

"Most of the pages are vertical but there's one thats horizontal. "

That does not matter much. The name of the layout was done when you did this new document that started out as a Letter page layout in "portrait" mode and not "landscape". If you later change the size of a single page with the Page tool it has no influence on the name of the layout. Even if you'd do that to all pages in the document…

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

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Laubender

Correct answer

Community Expert

"Most of the pages are vertical but there's one thats horizontal. "

That does not matter much. The name of the layout was done when you did this new document that started out as a Letter page layout in "portrait" mode and not "landscape". If you later change the size of a single page with the Page tool it has no influence on the name of the layout. Even if you'd do that to all pages in the document…

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

If you want to go on a curious trip, ask the Pages panel menu button to build you a default Alternate Layout. It makes two sets of your paragraph styles! V and H! Then try Links panel menu button, Link Options, Define Custom Style Mapping, Settings, New Style Mapping. The two sets of styles can be related to each other; yet be different looks and attributes. Let my head spin!

Mike Witherell

MDY MarketingAuthor

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my head is already spinning 🙂 !

Barb Binder

Community Expert

😂. @Mike Witherell has been making me laugh out loud for 25 years. And his comment today was no exception.

It's just a View setting in the Pages panel. My US English version does not default to showing V as per Uwe's reply, but even if you are not using Alternative Layouts, it's still an option to enable that view. Because I work primarily online documents, I prefer to set my view to horizontal so that I can get more spreads on my screen at one time. It's just a preference.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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Laubender

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Hi @MDY Marketing ,

actually "Letter V", the "V" stands for "vertical", is an Alternate Layout.

Even if the document contains only one single layout, the one with the name "Letter V".

It's just a view on the document's layout structure from a different perspective. The name is automatically set by InDesign when you do a new document. Nothing to care about here…

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )