Overriding and detaching parent items
When a parent page is applied to a regular page, the parent page items appear on the regular page, but they are still controlled by the parent page. If they are edited on the parent page, those edits will be reflected on the pages that have the parent applied to them.
Sometimes, you might want to override certain parent item properties locally on an individual page, while still retaining the connection to the parent with respect to other properties. For example, you might have elements on multiple pages that are applied through a parent page, but you would like to change the fill color of a frame on a single page, while still allowing it to reflect any changes to other properties that are made on the parent page, such as the corner options or text frame options.
This is called overriding and, in this recipe, we will look at how to do this. We will also take a look at how you can detach overridden items completely, breaking all links to the...
