Adding pages within a document

[Don34862646jbr5]

One necessary skill completely eludes me. (Actually, lots do, but I only need to add this one now.)

I have a multipage document. I need to add a page in the middle of it. I know how to add a page and how to draw a text box in it. What I cannot seem to grasp is how to fit that added page within the flow of threaded pages rather than as a separate story. I'm annexing a file so I can express my problem in concrete terms. I need to have a page viii following page vii. I know how to thread between vii and viii. Then I need viii to thread to page 1, and that's where I get messed up. When I click on viii's out box, I get a loaded cursor. If I position that loaded cursor in the upper left-hand corner of page 1 and click, the page 1 material ends up starting on page viii, and then I can't add the text I need to.

Will it work if I type my new text before the page 1 material and then add a next page break? (I apologize if I'm not making much sense.) If not, can someone give me a step-by-step? I've looked at lots of videos online, but either they are addressing a different problem or I'm just not understanding them.

Thanks to all.

[rob day · Accepted solution]

Hi @Don34862646jbr5 , One thing to consider with facing page documents, it is assumed to be a bound book that will be folded and gathered—the number of pages have to be divisible by 4 and page 1 has to be to the right of the fold.

So you have 11 pages, but there will need to be either 12 or 16 (where is the page that prints on the back of your page 1?):

Convention would have a blank page after your roman numeral numbered front matter to the left of your starting page 1.

12 pages:

[Don34862646jbr5]

Hi, Rob,

I take your point, but the document will only be in electronic form, available to students who purchase the bound book that this supplements. I'm doing a new edition of the bound book now (gladly, it's not due until October), and that has each new section beginning on an odd page.

[rob day]

the document will only be in electronic form

You mean a PDF, eBook, HTML? If it’s a PDF are you showing spreads or individual pages?

[Don34862646jbr5]

The PDF will show individual pages.


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Don
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[rob day]

Then just delete your last roman page from the exported PDF if it is blank