Master Page Not Retaining Margins or Page Numbers

[mshea49]

I only have an A Master. As you can see from the images, page number show up in one document based on the A Master, but not on a 2nd document I created using the A Master.

The 2nd problem is with margins, the margins are set how I want them, yet when I create a 2nd document the margins are not correct. (Indesign CC version 14.1.0) Please help!

Page number issue (top two pictures)

Margin Issue (next two pictures)

[BobLevine]

Are you expecting settings in one document to be applied to all of them? That's not how it works.

[mshea49]

Yes, I thought the settings in the A Master would apply to all documents based on it.

[BobLevine · Accepted solution]

The master only applies to the document it is part of. There are ways to synchronize them or copy them but these are not external so they do not apply to other documents.

[mshea49]

Okay, thanks. I'll stop beating my head against the wall trying to make it do something it can't!

[Barb Binder]

You can use the Pages panel menu to load the master pages from one file to another.

~Barb

[mshea49]

Thanks.

[Frans v.d. Geest]

And, just advice: your margins are very very small and the page number touches them, so also touches the text.

use wider (‘bigger’) marges and allow enough white space between the bottom of your text (the last line) and the page number.

[mshea49]

Thanks.