InDesign Tutorial: Designing the inside pages of a book

Take your book design a step further and set up the inside pages using master pages and paragraph styles with InDesign. This tutorial takes you through the main pages of your book and shows you how to apply page numbers, chapters and more. Set up a file that's easy to use and saves you time!

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Category:

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Tags:

• indesign
• photoshop
• how-to
• books
• book design
• master pages
• pages

[WeRsNs]

Love the tutorial, and love the voice, thank you!

[designlikeapro]

@WeRsNs Thank you!

[jameslsjay]

Thank you for this - it's great to find a tutorial that I understand and uses easy 'language' in the explanations. It has helped me understand where I went wrong in my first book and now I can correct the template and move forward with the rest. Now to find your book cover tutorial.

[designlikeapro]

@jameslsjay Thank you so much! That's why I put these episodes together. I'm glad they are easy to understand. Good luck on your projects.

[hermanbroodnodig]

Nicky, great tutorial ! I wish I had seen some of this before I started my book.

So far only three, but all great. I don't know what drives you to make these but they are a fantastic help.

thanks,

Denis (Singapore)

[designlikeapro]

@hermanbroodnodig Thanks! The fact that you learned something and I was able to help that is what drives me. Thanks for watching!

[copetedavid]

we need more people like you on YT Thanks a TON!!!

[thetruthshallremain]

This is the greatest tutorial on designing a book using inDesign! Million thanks to you! I've been looking for this and yours did help me A LOT! I'm in my way of designing my new book, thanks to you!

[designlikeapro]

@FIRSTconcentrate This is a tough one. I haven't had lots of opportunities to reformat a project after it was near complete so I'm not aware of any shortcuts. I'll look into this for you and if anyone else out there has experience, please leave a comment to help out!

[FIRSTconcentrate]

I have decided to change my trim size after formatting the whole book. Are there Adobe shortcuts to not have to resize every text box on every page? All textboxes are aligned to margins

[designlikeapro]

@musicstud07 Thanks and yes, you would set up another master page with your title information. Just remember that master pages work well for text that will appear the same on the pages you set. This is why they work well for page numbers and other footer text. It doesn't change from page to page except for the page number.

[designlikeapro]

@RedofYellow I am a CoD fan as well! I think creative types can appreciate a lot of things. Speaking of an oxymoron, I'm a graphic designer and can hand code a website at the same time. There are exceptions! :)