In addition to the actual pages of your design, InDesign also provides you with so-called master pages. These play a particularly important role in multi-page documents.

Master pages for recurring design elements

For brochures or newspapers, for example, there may be design elements that appear on all pages across several pages or even the entire document. Or elements that should only be visible on part of your total number of pages. By using master pages, these recurring design elements do not have to be created anew for each individual page.

Instead, they are created once on a master page. By assigning the master page to the pages of a document, the design elements then appear on these assigned pages. If you make changes to the master page, these changes affect all assigned pages.

It is possible to create several master pages, e.g. for different chapters within a brochure. In addition, a master page is always assigned to each page.

Editing master pages in InDesign

If you are editing a design template from us, take a look at the prepared master pages. Especially for extensive, multi-page documents, you may find sample pages with design elements.

You will also notice that we use sample pages for the design if you cannot edit certain design elements directly on the pages. Their content is locked. To customize them as you wish, open the page control panelvia Window>Pages. Select a master page for editing by double-clicking on it.

You can tell which master page is assigned to which page by the names in the top right-hand corner of the page icons. To assign a master page to a page, drag the master page onto a page icon. Alternatively, right-click on the thumbnail icon of your page and click on the option Apply master page to pages .. .