indesign help!!!! overlapping graphics???

[grantcoghill]

Hello and help!

I'm kinda new to indesign and I'm working on a magazine at the moment. I'm wondering how to make graphics extend over two pages, even when you move the page (shuffle pages) instead of (keeping spread together). A friend has suggested coping the design elements onto the opposing page, when it has been moed, but this, i'm sure, is wrong and would take an age to do it for every page.

So here's the problem. I have a built a 2 and a half page "spread" with graphics flowing from one page to another, but now the first page, instead of being on the left side of a double page spread, has to be moved to the right side of the previous page.

I checked the "shuffle pages" button and moved the first page upward, adding a full page add on the opposite page. But when I moved the page above the other two, the overlapping graphics dissapear from the first page. Is there anything I can do to link the overlapping graphics from each page?

This is a bit confusing, I know, but imagine how I feel.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thankyou.

 

[TYPPIET]

I know the problem, there is (as far as i know) no "easy way" so that Indesign wil "know" which objects belong to which page.
My solution would be:
(first, save your file under a new name so your original work will not be lost)
Select all the objects on the spread (Command A)
Group all these objects (Command G)
Cut the grouped objects from the document
Change the order of the pages
Place the grouped objects on the page where you want them (Command V; use Shift Alt Command V to place them in exactly the original coordinates)
Ungroup the objects (Shift Command G)
So now you have to reorder your stuff on the pages.

I hope this is any help to you, maybe it's too obvious and you're looking for something else. Good luck

Using InDesign CS2 (Dutch version) in OSX 10.4.6 on a mac G4

 

[MarcusStringer]

You can try using the Anchored Object option in InDesign CS2, this will keep object where you need then, even when reflowing text.



Marcus

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