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Changing page size and margins - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2025 Essential Training
Changing page size and margins
- [Instructor] InDesign lets you change the size of a document or adjust its margin guides after you've created it, but before you try it, you always need to ask yourself two questions. First, do you want to change just one page or all the pages in the document? And second, do you want the objects on your page to move or scale when you make the change? Or do you want them to stay the same? For example, here in this magazine document from the exercise files folder, I'm going to jump to the second spread by pressing option or alt + PgDn. I can change the size of a single page by choosing the page tool in the tool panel. Then when I click on a page, it highlights, it gets these side and corner handles, and at first it looks like if I drag one of those, it's going to resize the page. But the funny thing is when I let go of the mouse button, it always snaps back to where it was. The trick here is that you need to hold on the option or the alt key when you drag, that tells InDesign that you…
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