View spreads as single-page column like Acrobat PDF pages?

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July 11, 2024
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Sometimes, I'm working in InDesign on my 40" ultrawide monitor at home. Sometimes, I'm working whilst traveling using my 14" laptop screen. When I'm working on my laptop, I would really, really, REALLY like to be able to edit my document without having to scroll WAY right and WAY up to get to the next odd page. I would like to view the spreads as a single-page column, just for easy of editing. I want to be able to simply scroll up and down to review and edit, like in Acrobat. I don't want the document to BE single page spreads, I just want to be able to scroll smoothly downwards on my laptop to review and edit a document. Is this possible? If not, is this worth a feature request?

Robert at ID-Tasker

Legend

Shift + PageUp/PageDown - jumps from page to page.

Alt + PageUp/PageDown - jumps from spread to spread.

But if you are editing text - then maybe Ctrl/Cmd+Y - Story Editor?

Or Copy Editor (Beta):

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

One of my few dogged key remaps is that of PageUp and PageDn to "Previous Spread" and "Next Spread," so that the screen jumps a whole, centered "page" instead of some random screen height. I find the default page-up/page-down function between annoying and useless.