When working in alternate layouts, can you have original facing and alternate single pages?

[kwilson42]

I would like to be able to work with facing pages, or full spread, versions of my document, as well as single page alternate layouts. How do I do this?

Please help?

[John T Smith]

The Forum Lounge is not for technical help, please provide the name of the program you are using so your message may be moved to the correct program forum... A program would be Photoshop or Dreamweaver or Muse or Premiere Pro or ???

[Pariah Burke · Accepted solution]

It's InDesign, John T Smith . I'm moving it.

kwilson42 Unfortunately, InDesign doesn't have an option to change from facing to non-facing or vice versa in alternate layouts. Each subsequent layout will always inherit the non/facing status from the first layout.

There are a few workarounds, but nothing elegant. Check out these forum threads:

Alternating master pages (non-spread layout)

creating alternate layout with facing pages

[nsgma]

@Pariah Burke 

The links for the threads do not work and a search on the subjects you mention also do not return anything relevant.

Can you update?

N

[BobLevine]

This discussion is four years old. Please start a new discussion with full details, including what version of InDesign you're using if you want help. The forum software changed a while back and most links to it are broken.

I'm locking this to avoid anything else getting lost.