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Creating and Applying Parent Pages
In this chapter, we look at working with parent pages in InDesign (formerly known as master pages) and how they can be used to rapidly add content to multiple pages.
Parent pages are a special type of page that typically contain recurring elements that can then be applied to multiple other pages. You can think of parent pages as a type of template, although strictly speaking, they are not templates, which, in InDesign terms, refers to a specific type of InDesign document. Parent pages themselves are not included in your final output document, and the content on them is only included as part of a regular page, where the parent page has been applied to that page.
Parent pages can be useful for containing a ...
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