: Adobe Indesign master pages not aligning properly when loaded or synchronized I have document DA with master page MB that is based on master page MA. In another document DB I load the master

@Tiffany317

If the error is only in one document and it doesn't reproduce when you use the same procedure in a different one, the problem is most likely to be with that one document. Use 'File > Save As' and select IDML as the type (versions earlier than CS6, use 'File > Export' and select IDML).

Open the saved IDML file, which will create a new InDesign document that is identical in appearance to the original, but without any corruption or "cruft" that may have built up in the original file as it was repeatedly edited and saved. Its file size also be smaller than the original -- possibly much smaller. Use this instead of your original.

[Later Edit] Another possibility is that you have changed margin settings and/or page size from one document to the next, and possibly have Enable Layout Adjustment turned on. That's a combination that probably would create the problem you are seeing. My usual workflow with books is to create a master template for the book, and create all chapter documents from the master template. This can be as simple as a blank document with the main Master Page and a Chapter Opener master plus a base set of Paragraph and Character styles, saved as an INDT.

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