InDesign

Create new documents

Page design begins with the basics: starting a new document, setting up pages, and positioning margins and columns or changing grid settings.

You can also create tables of contents and indexes by managing a document in a book file with InDesign.

For a video on setting up new documents, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0068.

Create a new document

  1. Choose File > New > Document.

    The New Document dialog box combines the Document Setup and the Margins And Columns dialog boxes, so that you can set up the page size, margins, and page columns all in one place. You can change these settings at any time.

  2. Choose a Page Size or specify a custom Width and Height for your document.
  3. Click the orientation for the page, either Portrait  (tall) or Landscape  (wide).
  4. Specify options in the Margins and Columns sections, if necessary.
  5. To specify the dimensions of the bleed and slug areas, click More Options. The bleed and slug areas extend out from the edges of the defined Page Size. To make the bleed or slug areas extend evenly on all sides, click the Make All Settings The Same icon . (See New Document options.)
  6. Click OK to open a new document with the settings you specified.
To set default layout settings for all new documents, choose File > Document Setup or Layout > Margins And Columns, and set options when no documents are open.