Center all Indesign text frames with just one click

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March 11, 2022
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Hello everybody. I imported, from Word to Indesign, a document of about 800 pages (text only). Everything is already perfect, except that each text frame must be centered on each page. Is there a function that allows to do this with just one click, without having to align frame by frame? Thanks you

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Correct answer Peter Spier

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but the change only affects the selected frame. If I try to select the whole document, it has no effect on the other text frames

Maybe I wasn't clear.

Turn off layout adjustment.

On the Parent Page(s) adjust the margins so they are the same as the text frame edges.

Turn on layout adjustment

On the Parent Page(s) adjust the margins to be equal as they were previously.

Do this on a copy for safety.

Peter Spier

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Hard to say for sure since it isn't clear what you have now, but it might work to "enable layout adjustment" and then change the margins on the applied Parent Page. Try this on a copy...

carmen margherid17724606Author

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Thank you very much for the replies.

The structure is shown in the attached screenshot.

The frames are the same throughout the document and the text flows from page to page.

The page margins (top, bottom, inside and outside) are already set equal and therefore centered.

I tried to work "enable layout adjustment", but this only affects the size of the frame and not its alignment.

I tried to use "find - replace", but there is a function only on the vertical justification, and not on the horizontal one that I would need instead ...

Any suggestions? Thanks