Creating new parents and inheriting properties

While you won’t use parents in some documents and, in others, the A-Parent is all you will need, it can be useful to create additional Parents, especially in longer documents such as catalogs or manuals. In this recipe, we will look at how to create more parent pages and how to base a new parent on an existing parent, allowing it to inherit properties from the existing parent page. This can be a useful technique for controlling your guides or page numbering across multiple different parent pages all from one central place.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, simply open InDesign on your system and create a new document with 12 pages, as shown in the Creating a new document recipe in Chapter 1.

You should also be comfortable with the previous recipes in this chapter: Adding content to a parent page including page numbers and Applying and removing parent pages.

How to do it…

To create new parent pages, follow...