What is a Master Page

For someone accustomed to working with “PowerPoint”, you would most certainly know what is the “Master Slide”.
A “Master Page” in “Publisher” is basically the same thing, it is a basic template in which we store information that we use in the rest of the pages of our publication .

The number of “Master Pages” that you can create is unlimited.
You can only have a single “Master Page” for a page, but you can have multiple “Master Pages” in a publication that consists of multiple pages.

Creating a Master Page

To create a basic page, click on the “View” button in the menu bar and select “Master Page” from the drop-down menu.
A blank page appears with the “Edit Master Pages” toolbar.
In the blank sheet we put everything we want to reuse in a page, based on this “Master Page”.
The “Edit Master Pages” toolbar has seven buttons.

1. “New Master Page”
2. “Duplicate “Master Page”
3. “Change name of “Master Page”
4. “Delete Basic Page”
5. “Layout Guides”
6. “Change in single page / double page”
7. “Close Master Page View”
The first 5 are quite clear.
I think that I only need to clarify that button 4, i.e ” Delete Basic Page” can be used only when more than one “Master Page” is created. You cannot do this if you have only one page.
Button 6, “Change to single page / double page”, is used in a publication such as a newsletters, where you have a left and a right page.
Button 7 closes the “Master Page”.

Everything we place in a “Master Page”, will recur in the pages that follow, in the same manner as they are placed. For example, page numbers.
Click on the “Insert” tab in the menu bar and select “Page Numbers” from the drop-down menu.
This opens the “Page Numbers” dialog box.
Enter your settings and click OK .

When we close the “Master Page” by clicking the “Close Master View” button, we return to our publication, where the “Apply Master Page” panel is displayed.
You can see that the page number has been added at the top left of the page.

If you don’t want any “Master Page” content to be applied on the page, click on the arrow pointing downwards in the panel, and select “Ignore Master Page .”

To create a second “Master Page” the “Edit Master Pages” toolbar is needed.
If you click on the “New Master Page” button at the bottom of the Edit Master pages pane, a new “Master Page” is created.

This opens another “Master Page”, with the “Edit Master Page” toolbar.
Click the first button i.e “New Master Page.”
This opens a dialogue window in which you can give the new page, a name.
Click on the OK button.
You can add a number of objects. For this example, I’ll insert my logo.
I can edit this with the help of the “Image toolbar”.
You can now close the master view.

This brings me back to the publication where I was when I clicked on the “Apply Master Page” option. Click on the arrow pointing downward and select the newly created second base page “Master Page LOGO”.

This doesn’t seem like much, but now you know all about pages.

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