Adding pages

To add one or more pages to your publication, click on the “Insert” button in the “Menu bar” and select the “Pages” option from the drop-down menu.

This opens the “Insert Page” dialog window.

In the textbox at the top of the dialog box, enter the number of pages that are to be added.

Use the radio-buttons “Before current page” and “After current page”, to select whether you’d like to add this page, before or after the selected page.

In the “Options” section of the dialog box, you have three options:
1. Insert Blank pages
2. Create one text box on every page
3. Duplicate all objects on page.

The first two seem quite obvious to me.
The third option will duplicate all objects that you type in the textbox, duplicating to the pages you add.

All pages in your publication are listed in the “Status bar”.
To navigate between pages, click on the page number, or press the “Page Up” or “Page Down” buttons on your keyboard while you keep the Ctrl key pressed.

Adding a page to a template is slightly different.
Depending on the type of template you have chosen, you will only be able to insert two pages.

Let us consider the “Newsletter” template for example. You will rarely, or rather never, see a blank page in a Newsletter.
You always have a front page and a back page.

When you add a page, it is either added behind the front page, or in front of the back page, in other words, a left and a right page.

The left page is in front of the previous page, and the right page is behind the next page.This is much harder to explain than it actually is.

When we add a page to our newsletter, the ” Insert Newsletter Pages” dialog box opens.  This dialog box is divided into two parts.
The left part is for the “Left hand Page”, which is after the previous page, and the right part is for the “Right hand page”, in front of the next page.

For both parts, we have a drop-down menu with five options:

“Story”, “Calendar”, “Order form”, “Response Form”, and “Sign-up form”.
“Story” is used when the page consists of text with a few pictures.
“Calendar” is used when we want to insert text, photos and calendars.
“Order” is the same as the one above, except that an order will be added in place of a “Calendar”.
“Response Form” and “Sign-up form” are much the same.

When you make a choice in the drop-down menu will be shown in an example below the preview window.
Click the OK button when you have made a choice.

Both methods of insertion always insert a page between the first page and the last page.
It is impossible to insert a page before the first, or after the last one.

Deleting pages

If you want to delete a page, right-click on it and select “Delete Page” from the drop-down menu.

In the dialog box that appears you have three options.

But when you select the second or third option, a warning window will appear with the message that you had better remove both pages, because, otherwise the left and right pages will be interchanged.

If you want to ignore it and continue, click OK .
But I’d like to point out that this is something that you shouldn’t do, because it will only mess up the order of your pages in the newsletter.

If you work with individual pages, such as a blank publication, you do not have these concerns .

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