: Indesign: Master pages not applying correctly in the right order I'm guessing this is a pretty simple problem I'm having. I'm new to indesign and can't figure out how the masters apply to the

@Turnbaugh909

Facing pages are used to control the logic of master pages as well as the layout in the Pages Panel. With Facing Pages on, the masters become "right" and "left" not 1 and 2. So InDesign will not let you place a left master on the right page. The logic, to me, seems to be there to prevent a user from mistakenly applying the wrong master page to something.

You need a 3 page spread in the Pages panel, set up like the 3p master, to apply that 3rd Q master to it. Then it'll allow you to apply 2 left pages and the 3rd right page.

If you want absolute control over what master page is applied where, you need to turn off Facing Pages and create individual masters then manually place pages in spreads. As non-facing pages, with single page masters, Indesign will allow you to apply any master page to any other page.

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@Martha945

You are trying to place a three-page spread master page into a two-page spread. As far as I know, InDesign will copy text from a master not page-by-page but by spread.

You can't drag text from a master page (even though you can highlight a single page in a spread). When you attempt to drag the master page it will automatically fill all available pages in the destination spread by beginning at the first page of the master.

One solution is to make the third page of Q-Master its own master page, then copy it to page 18.

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