When adding a page, running head in outside margin goes into the gutter.

Question

Hi -- I am having a problem with adding pages to a document which has vertical running heads, in the outside margin of a spread. I've set this up in Master Pages, as a facing page spread. When I add a page, SOMETIMES the spread behaves and keeps the running head on the outside of the new configuration. Other times it puts the running head in the gutter, and I have to go through the whole book and correct it. I'm wondering if this has something to do with whether I've changed an element (i.e. unlocked it) that was on the original master spread, and once that was done, the element somehow disconnects from the master spread? And is there a way of telling the master spread that I want this element to still behave properly? Or maybe that's not the problem and there is another reason that it's happening.

Thanks so much for any insight into this!

rob day · Accepted Answer

Inconsistently, so this is another puzzle Hi @alisonl0shi , The problem you are having happens when you override parent page items on the live pages, and add a single page to a facing page document.  It wont happen if you add new spreads. If you are having the document printed and bound, the final page count will have to be even, so if adding a single page gives you an odd page count, you will have to eventually add another page. Adding a single page here gives me 7 pages—there has to be 8 in order to be bound:   Adding a new spread:

Barb Binder · Answer

I'm wondering if this has something to do with whether I've changed an element (i.e. unlocked it) that was on the original master spread, and once that was done, the element somehow disconnects from the master spread?

Yes. If you override parent page elements and then add/delete pages that move right pages left and left pages right, this will happen because those items now move with the page and don't follow the left/right organization provided by the parent pages. Overrides are available to us, but to be avoided if at all possible. You can restore the correct parent pages by selecting all of the body pages in the Pages pane and reassigning the parent pages.

Inside of introducing overrides, consider adding linked parent pages.

~Barb

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