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AHH!! Finally.
So the trick is that it's not enough to just drag a page onto another page, which only leaves you with the options I've been stating. But depending on your needs, you need to also drag it past the other page, which then flips the mouse pointer icon horizontally to indicate that the left-right status of the page will indeed be flipped by dragging the page to that position.
This is appears to be what I've we've looking for. I don't know if that covers all possible scenarios, but it
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Ok, but, I'm looking to control whether each single page is a left-hand or right-hand page, individually (and not to conform every page in a document to the same thing).
In the attached screen grab, the first two pages shown (6–7) are both right-hand pages, but the other two (11–12) are left-hand and right-hand pages, respectively.
I'm looking to, for example, select page 6 and turn this right-hand page into a left-hand page, or to select page 11 and turn this left-hand page into a right-hand page. (Or whatever a situation calls for.)
You need to use Sections:
https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/indesign/using/numbering-pages-chapters-sections.html
If you create a new Section and set odd starting number - it will go to the right.
Upside down triangle above the page indicates new Section.
Or you can turn OFF both Allow... for a specific page and then drag the page:
Then you'll have page number inside square brackets.
I'm not looking to create other sections (or using other workarounds that require extra steps), just to control whether the individual pages are left-hand or right-hand pages.
When unchecking both ”Shuffle” options, and splitting spreads into separate pages, and then moving pages around and reconnecting various pages into spreads (occasionally even combining multipage spreads), it would be helpful to be able to control whether a page is left-hand of right-hand, to avoid combining two pages of the same kind into a new spread.
Of course we can always turn the Shuffle options back on again, and shuffle pages around in Shuffle mode, and then turn Shuffle options off again and disconnect the pages. There have always been workarounds, but they require extra steps.
And it would be quicker, simpler and more helpful to be able to control what's what, without any extra such hassle, and and without any extra steps. So that's what I'm trying to find out – if this is in fact possible, in some way I've yet been unable discover.
So … are you saying that, when both Shuffle options are off, there are ways to drag the pages in such a way that the user is able to control whether those pages are left-hand or right-hand? It may indeed be that there are finer points to how pages are dragged/moved or separated or recombined into spreads, that do in fact control the left/right orientation of the pages (either through the dragging itself, or by holding down modifiers, or something).
But when I'm in unShuffled mode and combine pages with the same orientation, I keep ending up with spreads with two left-hand pages or two right-hand pages on the spread, with no control over whether the pages orientation or where on the spread the spine resides. Like in the attached screen grab.
And if I'm combining multi-page spreads, (for like multi-page foldouts, or jacket sleeves with flaps, or whatever) it would be helpful to be able to easily and directly controlling the left/right orientation of each page and where the spine ends up on the combo-spreads.
Yes, I'm in full control of where a dragged page ends up on the resulting spread (its internal position in relation to the page I'm dragging it to), but the point is that I don't have any control over whether the new spread consists of left-hand or right-hand pages, or even where the spine on the spread ends up.
Look at the attached screen grab. I can drag page one to the left or right edges of page [2], or vice versa (drag page [1] to the left or right edge of page [2]), and in either of these four scenarios, I will end up with a spread like [5-6] (just below [1] and [2]). That is: if I combine two right-hand pages into one spread, I'll end up with a spread consisting of two right-hand pages, with the spine going along the leftmost page on the spread (and not in the middle of the spread).
And if I drag page [4] to the right edge of page [3] I'll end up with a normal spread, where the left-hand and right-hand page combine to a spread with the spine between these two pages, looking like spread [7–8] (just below page [3] and [4]). If on the other hand I drag, page [4] to the left edge of page [3], or even drag page [3] to the right edge of page [4], this too will result in a spread just like [5–6], with two right hand pages and the spine on the left of the spread instead of in the middle of the spread.
No matter how I drag either page to any other page, have I found a way to control whether the dragged page changes its left or right status, so if there's a trick that achieves that control, please let me in on the secret.
How do I, for instance, drag page [2] (a right-hand page) to page [1] (another right-hand page) in a way that combines the two right hand pages into a spread like [7–8] (with a left-hand page, and a right-hand page, with the spine in the middle) … as opposed to a spread like [5–6] (with two right-hand pages and the spine on the left of the entire spread)?
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