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May 26, 2025
Question

pages adding as part of the spread

  • May 26, 2025
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why are my pages suddenly not adding as separate spreads??

2 replies

rob day
Community Expert
May 26, 2025

Hi @hendy_5450 , Without a sample file we are only guessing, but check your Type>Smart Text Reflow preference:

 

 

Then if you are flowing text into a Primary Text flow make sure you select all of your pages in the Pages panel and have Allow Document Pages and Allow Selected Spread to Shuffle checked. If they are unchecked you’ll get this:

 

 

If they are checked then pages are added as needed:

 

 

 

 

Peter Spier
Community Expert
May 26, 2025

Typically this would happen if you've turned off Page Shuffling.

Some screen captures, at the very least, if not the file, would help.