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ajuele1984
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March 16, 2018
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Resizing Primary Text Frame

  • March 16, 2018
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Hi,

I have a 70 page booklet that recently went through edits and needs to have its margins tweaked. How do I resize the primary text frame so that the margins are smaller, and the text frame bigger, without copy pasting the entire document? (I know if I made the margins bigger, and the text frame smaller, they would adjust automatically). I feel like it's a very simple solution that I'm just not seeing.

Thanks,

Andy

      Correct answer Barb Binder

      Hi Andy:

      1. Navigate to the A-Master.
      2. Layout > Margins and Columns.
      3. Check Enable Layout Adjustment and change the margins.
      4. When you click OK, if the primary frames were on the guides, they will move with the guides. If not, just adjust them manually.
      5. The body pages using that master—or one based on it—will update automatically.

      ~Barb

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      Barb Binder
      Barb BinderCorrect answer
      Community Expert
      March 16, 2018

      Hi Andy:

      1. Navigate to the A-Master.
      2. Layout > Margins and Columns.
      3. Check Enable Layout Adjustment and change the margins.
      4. When you click OK, if the primary frames were on the guides, they will move with the guides. If not, just adjust them manually.
      5. The body pages using that master—or one based on it—will update automatically.

      ~Barb

      ~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
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      tim_5739
      New Participant
      May 23, 2025

      Hi,

       

      I followed thes steps but the text frames did not change. HELP 😞

      Barb Binder
      Barb Binder
      Community Expert
      May 23, 2025

      Hi Tim:

       

      That's not a primary frame—primary frames have a badge at the top left corner. You can read more about them on this page: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/creating-text-text-frames.html.

       

       

      The reason that we use primary frames is so that we can modify them on the parent pages and InDesign will immediately modify the pages using them. You are using a regular text frame so it doesn't have that connection. 

       

      ~Barb

      ~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
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