Stop text on pages moving!!!

John Kelsall

Tagged: Inserting pages

This topic has 5 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 8 years, 9 months ago by Colleen Shannon.

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- July 29, 2015 at 2:53 am #76985
  
  John Kelsall
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  Hi, I’ve a problem that has bugged me for a while now and so hope that someone can tell me the solution. To explain it better I’ll give a scenario:
  I’ve got a page where the running heads and folios have been deleted but now need to be added again. In older versions of InDesign you could just drop onto the page the Master page that contained the running head and folios, and hey presto! they appeared and the page with the text etc. looked exactly the same. In later versions (CC onwards I think), when I drop the master page onto the page, all the link text shifts onto the next page, so I have to rethread the text. Is there a way to reproduce the earlier InDesign versions where when I drop the master page onto the page it does not affect the text on the page?
  Thanks in advance
- July 29, 2015 at 8:02 am #77005
  
  David Blatner
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  Instead of reapplying the master page, try choosing Remove All Local Overrides in the pages panel menu.
- July 30, 2015 at 3:18 am #77031
  
  John Kelsall
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  Thanks for the reply, but that just causes more mayhem. Things move around on the page.
  
  As I said before, in earlier versions if you just dropped your master page on the page, the elements that have been deleted that originate from the master page appear again, but any text etc. is not affected.
  
  In the CC onward versions, dropping your master page introduces the master page items again, but makes all the text disappear from the page.
- July 30, 2015 at 4:04 am #77034
  
  Dwayne Harris
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  I’ve never used the drop method, but I select the page I want to change, hold down the option key, and click the master page I want to use.
- July 30, 2015 at 9:22 am #77059
  
  John Kelsall
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  Thanks for your answer Dwayne but your solution makes the pages behave in the same way as dropping the master on the page.
  
  I have actually now found an easy solution, although it does not answer why the problem exists with certain InDesign files. The way round it is to select the page in the pages panel and then choose in the fly-out menu “Detach All Objects from Master”. Once you have done that you can then drop the Master page over (or option click as Dwayne notes) and the objects and text on the pages do not move.
  
  Thanks everyone for your input.
- July 30, 2015 at 12:47 pm #77062
  
  Colleen Shannon
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  Sounds strange, do you have Text Wrap applied to objects on your Master Page?
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