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Hi, I'm currently working on a project in Adobe InDesign, and I've encountered a challenge that I could use some assistance with. I'm trying to create a document that includes both landscape and portrait page layouts, with the ability to switch between them as needed within the document.
I've tried following the usual steps for creating master pages and applying them to pages, but I couldn't find a specific "Section Break" option as seen in some other software like Microsoft Word. This has left me a bit confused about how to effectively manage the page orientation changes within my document.
Could someone please provide guidance on how to achieve this mixed landscape and portrait page layout in Adobe InDesign? Any tips, tricks, or alternatve methods would be greatly appreciated. I`m adding screenshot for more clarity. I want page 20 to be portrait separetly and page 21 below it
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I would like to add: Is there any plug-in or something that would give us a genuine Section Break marker as we have in MS Word? It is annoying to have this only in the page panel – when text flows differently we have to fix the section breaks manually. This takes time and calls for errors.
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A section is indeed defined in the page panel.
But what you really need are breaks. Those you find in the paragraph options and better to set up them in the paragraph styles in the keep options section.
section breaks in the sense of MS Word don't exist.
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What do you need sections for?
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To renumber footnotes.
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Chapters in a book are per definition single INDD files, sampled togethr in an INDB book file. The text variable in lists are chapters and those are defined by INDD files.
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True InDesign chapter numbering is done with separate files per chapter and organized in a Book file. You can still use "chapter" numbering in a single file, but you would not use the Chapter marker--it would just be the Level 1 number.
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You would create your "section break" in the Keep Options section of the paragraph style by starting the page on the next page, left page, or right page.
You can be more animated with a third-party addon that applies parent pages based on paragraph styles.
https://www.id-extras.com/products/mastermatic/