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Tip of the Week: Adding Files to a Book

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In honor of the new (and tremendously cool) issue of InDesign Magazine, which is devoted to working with long documents, here’s a tip for adding files to an InDesign Book.

You can of course add InDesign files to a Book by going to the Book panel menu and choosing Add Document. Or click on the + sign at the bottom of the panel. Then navigate to the file(s) and add them. You can also add multiple InDesign files to a Book just by drag and dropping them into the panel from the Mac’s Finder, Windows Explorer, or Adobe Bridge. You can also drag and drop a folder, to add all the InDesign files in it (including ones in subfolders) to your Book.

adding files to an InDesign book via drag and drop

Editor in Chief of CreativePro. Instructor at LinkedIn Learning with courses on InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, GIMP, Inkscape, and Affinity Publisher. Co-author of The Photoshop Visual Quickstart Guide with Nigel French.
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