In this video, you'll learn how to specify the desired number of pages as you create a new file, and how to add pages to and remove pages from an existing project.
With the latest version of InDesign CC open, choose File, New, Document...
This will display the New Document dialog box.
Yours may look different than what you see here, and that's OK.
We want to create a four-page flyer that will be printed, so choose Print.
This configures things correctly for a typical print document such as the color model, default measurements, and document presets.
Then choose Letter for the preset page size.
Note that there are a number of preset page sizes to choose from as well as a number of templates that you could use as a starting point for your design.
Also deselect the Facing Pages option.
Selecting this option displays left hand pages next to right hand pages similar to the interior layout of a magazine.
That's not what we want to do in this instance, so we're deselecting this option.
Notice that right here, InDesign CC is asking me for the number of pages I'll have in my document.
Now don't get too hung up on this because depending on what you're creating, you may or may not know how many pages will be in your project.
If you're creating a postcard, you'll probably have two pages: one for the front of the card and another for the back.
If you've been quoted a price from your printer for printing a four-page newsletter, you'll have four pages to fill, no more and no less.
But if you're creating a recipe book that you're going to print in your office, or a document that you're planning to distribute as a PDF then your page count is probably flexible.
And you'll add pages as you need them.
You can enter any value you want in this field, and then add more pages later as needed.
In this case, go ahead and enter 4 for the number of pages.
Leave the rest of the settings at their default values.
And then click Create to create a new four-page InDesign CC file.
Initially, InDesign CC only shows you the first page of the new document.
To see how many pages are in this document, you can use the Pages panel.
If the Pages panel isn't visible on your screen, choose Window, Pages to display the panel.
And you'll see a thumbnail for each page in the document.
Next, let's add some pages to an existing file that already contain some page content.
You can close this file by choosing File, Close without saving.
Open this practice file from the downloadable practice files for this tutorial.
In the Pages panel, double click on Page 3 to display that page in the Document window.
If we had more content to add to this document, we might want to add two new blank pages between Pages 3 and 4.
To do this, choose Layout, Pages, Insert Pages...
Fill in the dialog box specifying that we want to add two pages after Page 3.
Then click OK.
You can see in the Pages panel that 2 new blank pages have been added to this document.
Now double click on Page 2 to show that page in the document window.
Sometimes, you'll want to duplicate an existing page if you need two pages that contain similar layouts.
Let's add a new Page 3 to this document by duplicating Page 2.
There are several ways to do this, but one easy way is to drag the Page 2 thumbnail onto the New Page icon at the bottom of the Pages panel and then release the mouse.
This adds the page to the end of the document.
Drag the page up to the right of Page 2 in the Pages panel to put it between Pages 2 and 3.
Let's learn how to delete pages.
We've decided we don't need Page 6 which is blank, and Page 7 which contains some design elements after all.
To delete these pages, double click on Page 6 to show that page in the document window.
Then hold down the shift key on the keyboard and click once on Page 7.
You'll see both Page 6 and Page 7 turn blue in the Pages panel indicating they're selected.
Then click the Trash icon at the bottom of the Pages panel.
Because Page 7 contains a photo and some text, InDesign CC warns us.
Click OK, and the two pages are deleted.
Adding pages to a document is something that you'll likely need to do quite often.
As we've learned you can do this as you create a new file, or using the Pages panel at any time as you are designing your pages.
