How to Copy multiple pages from one indesign 4 document to a 2nd indesign 4 document

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I'm running Indesign4 on Win 7. (I know both are old, but I own both and can't afford adobe's new rent policy for the little I use Indesign.)

I have a 47 page document that I'm trying to break into chapters, smaller blocks. What I had envisioned was take my original document and copying multiple pages, say 8 pages for Chapt 1, them some 6 for Chapt2, etc. and saving each of the blocks as their appropriate Chapter. Then try and find a way to put them all together when I want to publish/print the document.

My first problem is I can't seem to be able to copy x number of pages as a block and past them into the new Chapter Y document. How to I get the contigious block of pages to copy?

TIA

JohnT

Robert at ID-Tasker · Answer

Open Pages Pallet - select range of pages - click on the first in the range, then press Shift, keep it pressed and click on the last page in range - then open hamburger menu and select move or duplicate - I'm sorry, but I'm on my phone and can't check how it was in the

CS4.

Or you can just duplicate your original file and just remove some pages.

The only "problem" - if you have one long Story - you'll have to manually delete unnecessary text.

Then, you can use Book option to "link" multiple indd files.

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