Duplicating pages in InDesign - but not at the end of a document
When duplicating pages in Indesign they always appear at the end of the document. We should be able to select where in the document we want the pages to be added, as we do when inserting new pages.
So, 'Duplicate Pages''; "Insert Before/After page XX" etc
Hi everyone,
This feature is available in Adobe InDesign 2023 version.
Please update to this InDesign version to work with this feature.
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Adobe InDesign team
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Matthias commented
Why is this request not being addressed?
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Andrewtb333 commented
People keep bringing up the option/alt-drag to duplicate a page to a specific location, but this only works for a *single* page. If you have more than one page highlighted, alt+drag doesn't work.
I do a lot of double-sided divider tabs, so I always want to duplicate them in sets. I need to alt-drag the first one and then do the same for the second. I can't do them at the same time.
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andr commented
yes please. I have a document with 200 pages
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Helga commented
I'm glad I'm not the only one going crazy about this :-)
In 99% of my use cases, the duplicated page is not required at the end of a document -
Marie commented
Option + Command Drag to add right below or above
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Mark commented
I have an InDesign doc with over 150 pages in. I need to duplicate each page, but want to have the duplicate below the original page. Do I have to alt drag each page to make sure it will be duplicated under the correct page? That is crazy if I do. Why can't there just be a shortcut to duplicate a page and it appear below the original and not at the end of the document?
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Ranjini Malhotra commented
YES. Please add this feature. So annoying to have to drag the page up and it's a time waster.
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Nijonna Edge commented
Please please add this feature
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Anonymous commented
If you need to print or export the same page on both sides of a sheet, just set the output to "x,x" and you'll get the same page twice.
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Matt Denton commented
ctrl+alt dragging does appear to work in CC2020. Just make sure you get it in the right spot for the line to appear next to the page.
Still, there should definitely be a 'Duplicate to Next' option. Really this should be the default option, and 'Duplicate to End' should be secondary.
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Anonymous commented
THIS DRIVES ME ABSOLUTELY BONKERS. Who would want their duplicate page to disappear 120 pages away? At least give us a toggle option in settings.. - 'Duplicate to Next'
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Loli commented
agreed, SO FRUSTRATING, if I'm copying a spread, why would I want it at the end of the document!?
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CC commented
It does work, you have to hover,
option/alt drag the page, then hover to the left side of a page and a line will appear,
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warren commented
Why I this happening I've been using indesign since day one since cc 2018 its been removed thought it was a bug but now in cc 2019 why?
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Evan commented
@Jason — That doesn't work for me in ID 14.0.1. It sticks the new page at the end of doc every time
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Jason commented
option/alt drag the page in the pages panel. Simple.
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Evan commented
Yes 9 times out of 10 I want to duplicate a page to [the next page] rather than [to the end of document]. I'm constantly having to duplicate a page, scroll all the way down to the bottom, then drag/move the new page all the way back up to where I wanted it.
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David B commented
Note that you can Option/Alt-drag the page and drop it where you want (in the Pages panel).
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Anonymous commented
In previous iterations of InDesign, you could do this by holding down alt on the pages panel and dragging the duplicated page(s) to a new location in the document. Unfortunately, this feature seems to be broken since updating to InDesign 14.0...
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Jamie commented
Agree! I have to modify multiple user manuals and when duplicating a page of similar content I always forget it jumps to the very end, and I'm working on 50+ page documents so it gets very frustrating. I hope there will be a solution to just duplicate the page right after the one that was duplicated (like in PowerPoint).