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Participant
July 19, 2023
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Moving pages going awry

  • July 19, 2023
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I'm trying to move pages from one doc to another. They were originally in the same file, so all masters and stylesheets match. Why are the moved pages resizing and losing text?

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Steve Werner
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 19, 2023

Use this method for moving pages. Choose Layout > Pages > Move Pages and select the file you're moving them into. That should leave the pages intact when moved:

 

Participant
July 31, 2023

That's what I did. They messed up in the move.

Steve Werner
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 31, 2023

It could mess up if either the source document you're moving from or the destination document you're moving to are corrupted.

 

You could try saving one or both by choosing File > Save As > InDesign CS4 (or later) (IDML). Open the IDML file it creates in InDesign and see if it works then.

Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
July 19, 2023

Maybe it will be easier if you duplicate your file and remove unnecessary pages?