Taking Advantage of Layout Adjustment

No template is ever completed on your first attempt. You’ll likely make small changes or even major overhauls as you design and evaluate new possibilities. You might alter just the margins or the number of columns. At other times, you may have to change the template’s page size or even its orientation. In either case, you could spend a significant amount of time and effort reorganizing objects to fit the new layout.

Fortunately, InDesign’s Layout Adjustment feature can save the day by doing much of that work for you. If you make a change using the Document Setup or Margins and Columns commands when Layout Adjustment is enabled, text and graphics frames are moved and resized based on the new relative position ...

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