Rotate your InDesign page spreads for a better, more…
If you happen to be working on an a multi-page InDesign document with facing pages that requires a fold at the top of the page rather than the side, it can be a real pain in the neck (literally) trying to work on pages that are sideways. Fortunately, InDesign allows you to relieve the pain.
As you can see above, a normal spread setup places the pages side-by-side. But your pages appear on screen sideways, with the fold running vertically instead of horizontally the way you want it. That’s because there’s no way to set up facing pages vertically.
Fortunately, you can use InDesign CS5‘s Rotate Spread feature to turn the spread to make it much easier to work on those pages. You can do this by visiting View>Rotate Spread from the InDesign menus and choose the direction you wish to rotate your view.
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We have a customer with a document like this that they do regularly. We have shown them how to do this, and have even given them a template for their document preset like this, but they refuse to use it. Instead they run the pages vertically, and oftentimes mess up on the photo run across, because it ends up split into two parts. We end up having to go into their document every time, and rebuild it how it should have been built in the first place.
Very frustrating. Especially when it really is as easy as you have explained here.
This advice just saved my life! And my neck!
From one neck to another, you’re welcome!
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