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1. Re: How to change document margins in IDCS3
P Spier Apr 17, 2009 2:16 PM (in response to Michael Brown12)Do this on the master page so all your pages will be affected.
Layout menu > Layout Adjustment... and turn on layout adjustment BEFORE you make any changes if you want things to adjust to the new margins (and how well it will work depends on whether the frames are touching the margin guides).
Then Layout > Margins and Columns... and you'll find the margin adjustment fields.
Peter
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2. Re: How to change document margins in IDCS3
Michael Witherell Apr 17, 2009 2:19 PM (in response to Michael Brown12)Michael,
Be on the Master Page. Click up to Layout > Margins and Columns.
Good for you to have Layout Adjustment enabled. That will reflow your text frames to become resized to the new margins, assuming they touched the margins from before.
Just be sure to turn off Layout Adjustment when you are done with this procedure, since InDesign slows waay down with it on all the time.
Mike Witherell in Maryland
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3. Re: How to change document margins in IDCS3
Michael Brown12 Apr 17, 2009 2:24 PM (in response to Michael Witherell)Thank you all; that was great information. It is very easy, but I don't understand why it was moved from the File menu. Suddenly, at some point, global changes are a bad idea?
Thanks again!
MGuilfoile
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4. Re: How to change document margins in IDCS3
Buko. Apr 17, 2009 2:28 PM (in response to Michael Brown12)Michael Brown12 wrote:
Thank you all; that was great information. It is very easy, but I don't understand why it was moved from the File menu. Suddenly, at some point, global changes are a bad idea?
Thanks again!
MGuilfoile
Well if you think about it Layout is a much more logical place to put Columns and Margins and I'm pretty sure its been this way from the begining of the Creative Suites. And you can't get more global than a master Page.
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5. Re: How to change document margins in IDCS3
P Spier Apr 17, 2009 2:29 PM (in response to Michael Brown12)When you first set up the document you have only one master and your settings are global, but after the document is created you have total control on a page-by-page basis over margins and columns, so you don't want the global setting anymore.
Peter




