To use the preset, just do as Nick did in the beginning. Name the new preset in the Custom Page Size dialog box and click the Add button if you want to create more custom sizes. While you’re in Page Editing mode (with the Page tool selected), and you’ve got your selected page looking just right, choose Custom, the last item in the Page Size preset dropdown menu in the Control panel: It’s as simple as creating a new style or workspace. That way, he can just select it from the Edit Page Size dropdown menu at the bottom of the Pages panel (the “easy” way), and the custom orientation comes along for the ride! So I suggested that before he leaves Page Size Edit mode (by choosing any other tool) he take a moment and create a new Custom Page Size for this type of page. And you know how those engineers love those fold-outs.
I asked Nick if he’d ever be using this kind of page again … a tabloid landscape page … in his work, and he said yes, quite a bit! He works for an architectural design firm, assisting the engineers in putting together proposals. Click the Landscape button to change the page to that orientation.īest of Both Worlds: Create a Custom Page Size There you’ll find two buttons controlling orientation (circled in red below). That puts InDesign into “Page Size Edit” mode, and so a phalanx of Page Size editing tools appears in the Control bar. To change the orientation of the page he added, I told Nick to click on the page (in the panel or right on the layout) with the Page tool, the third tool in the Tools panel. Even if you would never think of mixing page sizes in the same document, you can still use the Page tool to change just the orientation of one or more of your existing pages, which could come in mighty handy! The slightly more complicated way to change a page size – using the Page tool – gives you many more options, including control over page orientation. That changes the size of the selected page(s) but the orientation and position of the master page items is not changed. The problem is that InDesign has two ways to change a page size (at least), and Nick was using the easy, shortcut way – who wouldn’t? Just select a page thumbnail in the Pages panel, as page 7 is selected below, and then choose a page size from the Edit Page Size button, circled in red: In other words, Nick’s spread looked like this: I can’t find the control where I can change the orientation of the new tabloid page to landscape.” I have a facing-page letter-size document, and I used the dropdown menu in the Pages panel to add the tabloid page, but it’s portrait like the rest of the document. “How do I change the orientation of a new custom page size I add? I’m trying to make a tabloid-sized fold-out page. InDesign user, Nick, asked me the following question:
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