Various combinations of the tips in the comments do technically work, but it's extremely finicky and difficult. Even though I know it CAN be done, I am still only successful at it about 30% of the time. It's just physically very difficult to drag the mouse around in the precise, mysterious, magical order, over the tiny sliver of vague gray space in the panel that makes this feature work. So it really seems like a UX disaster rather than a complete lack of the feature.

Can't believe I'm still Googling this stupid issue in 2021.

I don't get why this is still an issue. The default function should be to duplicate in place just like every other program that I have ever worked in. My working files all have 1000+ pages, so duplicating to the last page in a doc is a brutal blow to workflow. It takes a solid minute to duplicate pages and drag them back to the right place. Give us a settings option or something!

I need this too!! duplicating more than one spread is very annoying, it used to work, I used to be able
to duplicate whole sections in a book...

Rayn Gilmore solution worked for me. InDesign 16.1. on mac. Thanks. See here:

Rayn Gilmore commented · October 14, 2020 14:48 · Flag as inappropriate
This works for me (tried it on CC 2015 & 2019). Press Command-Alt (on a Mac), then click and drag the page in the palette to the right until you see the '+' icon, THEN drag it to the left until you see the vertical line. Let go of the mouse button, and the copy should be under the current page.

It works for me only when I duplicate spread with alt + spread

has this been resolved at all? I too am extremely frustrated by this bug.

Please Adobe answer us. This is so annoying. When you are designing a big book, its terrible!

Actually it should be like in Powerpoint. If i click a new page and no other page is selected. Then bring the new page at the end. If one page is selected or if one page will be dublicated bring it to the next page of the dublicated one. So if I take one page with the mouse an ********* Top of the plus button or if i click right mouse button - dublicate - it should be copied not to the end. Please add als o the possebility of CTRL + C and CTRL V- if one page is selected to copy it directly.

Here here!

Still nothing from Adobe right?

Any response from ADOBE?!

For this to work you need to untick the allow pages to shuffle and the allow spreads to shuffle. Now works with me using the Alt and drag leaving the page where I want it to be.

This trick does work, but not as explained below. For me, it works when I select both pages in the spread, then click 'alt' (not cmd), go the right until the black bar appears and then drop it. Version 15.1.2.

This works for me (tried it on CC 2015 & 2019). Press Command-Alt (on a Mac), then click and drag the page in the palette to the right until you see the '+' icon, THEN drag it to the left until you see the vertical line. Let go of the mouse button, and the copy should be under the current page.

Yeah, the fact that this still doesn't exist is such a user experience fail... Google Slides does it right.

WHY WHY WHY was this removed??? Absolutely need this why do i want a duplicate page to appear right at the bottom of a document i want to pit it where i want to put it like it used to

Ah yes, I am using a mac, so don't know about Windows version.

Not the latest mac though, it's a Hi Sierra 10.13.6 mid 2011.

Martin

I just upgraded to 15.1.2 to test this out, and it still doesn't work. If I option drag a single page, it will duplicate the page to where the thin vertical bar indicates. If I have more than one page selected, it will actually *move* the pages there instead of duplicating them, which is definitely not what I want (given I am holding down the alt key). Unless this is a Windows-only bug, and it's working fine on Mac.

Using Indesign 15.1.2 (not sure about other versions) - Select the two pages in the palette, option-drag them slowly carefully to the right 5mm until a '+' sign appears next to the 'hand and page' symbol, then move back left again, until the plus sign disappears, and a faint vertical line appears just to the right of the 'hand and page' symbol. Release the mouse. The duplicated spread will now be immediately below.

To move the spread to a different location, do the above, but then move up or down to the immediate right of required page you want it to follow, before you release the mouse.

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