What happened here? Adding pages does not create a new spread

[Hakan Lindgren]

Why is Indesign doing this? See picture below.

When I add another page to my document, it gets added to the side of the previous page, instead of a new spread appearing. What settings should I change to stop this?

My version is Indesign CS 5.

[BobLevine · Accepted solution]

You need to turn on "allow pages to shuffle" from the pages panel menu. I don't even remember is CS5 had "allow spreads to shuffle" but that should be enabled as well.

[Laubender]

Hi Hakan,

how did you add that page? Did you drag it next to page 119? Did you use the menu command?

If so use the "Add New Page"-icon at the bottom of the Pages panel. In newer versions this is [+] icon.

From my German InDesign 2021 on WIndows 10:

Result:

This can work different with the context menu's Insert Pages… command if page 5 in my sample is selected:

Insert Pages

Result:

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

EDIT: Had to add one screenshot and move it to the right place.

[Laubender]

Hi Hakan,

sorry, had to edit my previous post two times.

To stop this check "Allow Document Pages To Shuffle". As you can see from my German screenshots I did not check that option, in German "Neue Dokumentseitenanordnung zulassen", because I wanted to simulate your situation.

Also see: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/pages-spreads-1.html

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[Hakan Lindgren]

Thank you all for your help! This was driving me crazy ...