Adding pages to an Existing InDesign (CS2) Document? 1

[cubsdude]

How do I get InDesign to stop telling me that a spread can only have 10 pages when I'm not trying to add pages to a spread I'm just trying to add pages?

I've got a document that has 28 pages then it's sectioned and there are another 16 pages that need to go at the end of the document. In the meantime I want to add 80 pages in the middle of these two sections and all I keep getting is a dialogue box that says you can't have more than 10 pages in a spread & I don't want them in that spread I'm trying to just add pages, in spreads of their own.

How do I add these pages without doing it one at a time?
And on a related issue, If I auto flow my text it puts it at the end, why? I have a sectioned document and I want the text in between the two sections but InDesign insists on flowing it under the back section of text or at the end, even though my page starts before that end section. Can anyone tell me what's happening here? How do I fix this?
thx,
cubsdude

 

[jmgalvin]

You might try adding apges to the end of the documant and then dragging them in the Pages window to the appropriate place.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[pbrodsky]

How are you adding pages? If you use the pop-up menu on the "Pages" window you can add pages anywhere you want.

 

[cubsdude]

Apparently, The design flaw in ID is that a sectioned document is fine but you cannot autoflow text between sections. It automatically goes at the end and it's not so bad if you have a small sectioned document,as jmgalvin said, just move them in the pages pallette, but if you're working with several hundred pages it could become a problem.
thanks to those who responded.

 

[jmgalvin]

I think I understand but not sure so this answer might be a bit off.

I was thinking that you're adding completed - not blank - pages and that's why I said add them at the end.

To move a large number of pages via the pages window, you can click the first page you want to move and then Shift click (mac - I assume same for Windows) the last page you want to move. All the pages in between will be selected and then you drag them to the appropriate location.

Flowing text among sections can be a problem. This can even happen in word processors. Probably the best solution is to try to avoid sectioning until the last moment - sort of like when you have to embed images. If you embed them at first, it's a pain to edit them if necessary. So you wait until you're ready to package things up before embedding.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4