Resizing Primary Text Frame

[ajuele1984]

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

[Barb Binder · Accepted solution]

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

[ajuele1984]

Thanks so much! Worked like a charm. I knew I was overthinking it!

[Barb Binder]

Great news, Andy! Glad I could help.

~Barb

[Niteesh]

Thank you. I was strulling since last two days, created 3 documents.

[tim_5739]

Hi,

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

[Barb Binder]

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

[tim_5739]

Hi,

None of my text frames have this icon except those in my master pages.

Tim R.

[rob day]

Hi @tim_5739 , Can you share your ID file?