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I need to know changing the size of a document and what the lines mean indesign

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Jun 04, 2019 Jun 04, 2019

Hi I made a document with 3 pages, one for my letterhead, one for an envelope size and last one for a business card with measurements provide by my professor, I went ahead and put them in the window from file document setup, but my business card came out too big. I don't know if I am going too far with my design and maybe I am getting out of the space that I am supposed  to be working on. I don't know what the color lines mean.

can you tell me how to change the pages size without changing all them.

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what I am doing wrong?

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Community Expert , Jun 04, 2019 Jun 04, 2019

The white area represents the actual page. You can put anything you like, wherever you like. Those inner lines are just those margins (guides) to help if you wish.

You want to make sure you don't have text right at the edge of a page (or business card) as it could potentially get trimmed during the printing process. This is where those margins can be helpful. You could, for example, set the margins to a specific number and then make sure no important elements of your design fall outside of those

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Community Expert ,
Jun 05, 2019 Jun 05, 2019

I am too but we can't change the nature of her instruction, Steve. All we can do is give her a hand.

~Barb

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Jun 05, 2019 Jun 05, 2019

Hi Debbie:

Be sure the page you want to change is selected in the Pages panel, then use the Page tool in the toolbox.

~Barb

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