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December 13, 2022
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Reorganizing Parent Pages in INDD 2023

  • December 13, 2022
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I have been using InDesign since Creative Suite 4. As I mastered the program, and began utilizing the power of parent pages (formerly master pages), it was often useful to reorganize the parents as additional pages were added as a project grew, as they so often do. I was in the middle of a couple of 200+ page training manuals and chose not to upgrade past CC2020 because I typically find the latest CC iterations "buggy." I finally upgraded to 2023 about a month ago and have found it impossible to reorganize the parent pages in this latest update.  Am I missing something? Has this feature been disabled? I've always wished that I could group various parent pages into a folder. However, at the very least, I have been able to have all the parent pages for a particular module grouped together by being able to move things around, as necessary. Now, new pages are added to the bottom of the list so I have to hunt for the parent pages for a particular module (i.e. chapter). This is VERY inefficient. Can someone please let me know if the ability to reorganize the parent pages in the Pages Panel is still there? If not, PLEASE bring back this essentail feature. Thank you!

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Participant
April 16, 2023

I've had the same problem. Fortunately for me, quitting and relaunching InDesign seems to clear the glitch. Fingers crossed that continues to work! It's not you—it something odd that's crept into ID2023. 

Steve Werner
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 10, 2023

No one forces you to buy or use Adobe tools.

kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 10, 2023

@M@Stevens 

 

actually, you don't have a right to be abusive here.  good bye.

Steve Werner
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 2, 2023

Since others are having no problem moving Parent Pages in InDesign 2023, you might try restoring your InDesign Preferences and caches. Here's how:

 

https://www.rockymountaintraining.com/adobe-indesign-rebuilding-preferences-cache/

Barb Binder
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 2, 2023

Hi @lafriday:

 

Looking ahead, I recommend disabling the option to migrate preferences when you install a new version. I suppose it must work fine for most users, but a fair number show up here after a major upgrade to let us know about some specific feature that is suddenly no longer working. Rebuilding the cache and preferences seems to always take care of it.

 

My take-away is to just plan on setting aside some time to set my preferences after an update, and not bother trying to migrate the old ones.

 

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
January 2, 2023
Community Expert
January 2, 2023

Hi @lafriday ,

also no issue with moving parent page's spreads around.

I'm on InDesign 2023 version 18.1 on Windows 10.

 

Hm.

 

How are your current settings for UI Scaling in InDesign's preferences?

 

Currently I am working with the default values set to:

UI Sizing: Small

[x] Scaling Cursor Proportionately

Anchor Points, Handle, and Bounding Box Display Size:

Small

 

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

 

Participant
August 18, 2023

@Laubender, Thank you for mentioning UI Scaling.

 

I had the same problem as @lafriday and others, where the horizontal line did not appear when I tried to rearrange/reorder parent pages in the doc panel. I changed the UI Scaling settings, which required an InDesign relaunch, and that fixed the original issue: I could now reorder the parent pages as much as I wanted. Resetting the UI Scaling back to the original didn't undo the fix: I can still reorder the parent pages. 

 

I'm not sure why that worked, but I'm glad it did. I often have many parent pages in a doc. (For those wondering why you might: If you work on long and complex publications, it's common to have many parent pages. I like to have them arranged in order of frequency of use.)

 

InDesign 18.5, OS 12.6.7

Scott Falkner
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 13, 2022

I can rearrange parent pages. Just drag the thumbnail up or down and make sure there is a line between pages when you release. Otherwise you are likely to apply the parent you are dragging to the parent you drag it onto.

lafridayAuthor
Participant
December 13, 2022

Thank you for your response. That is what I've always done and have tried doing in the latest update. Alas, for some reason, in CC2023, it is not working—no line is appearing and it is messing with other parent pages.

Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
January 2, 2023

Which line is missing? Between Masters and regular pages?

 

Can you post a screenshot? 

 

Maybe even mockup what would you like to achieve?