An automatic layout page/overflow issue

Hi all

Forgive me if this is a very basic question (it's probably!), but it is a problem of layout that is a little more advanced than what I have worked with so far in InDesign.

I'm working on a guide of type "how to use".  The layout you want for the guide will look something like this:

sample.jpg

Now, the number of steps in each of the minis tutorials will vary (a tutorial could have 5 stages, 12, etc.); but basically, each step will consist of three elements. Text, a screenshot and additional notes that might provide a hint, a reference for more information or additional comment.

Now, my question is... is it possible to plan the autoflowing such as the three elements can "auto format" as a group, if I need to insert a new step between two existing?  In other words, if I have the three steps above and then decide to do another step between 2 and 3, it is possible to automatically move existing step 3 to step 4 on the next page, and the 'new' stage becomes stage 3? (I hope that makes sense).

I tried to look in the help file, but I still confuse. 8-)  Thank you for the pointers help sections or tutorials that might make this a little more clear.

Denise

Deecey52 wrote:

Hi all

Forgive me if this is a very basic question (it's probably!), but it is a problem of layout that is a little more advanced than what I have worked with so far in InDesign.

I'm working on a guide of type "how to use".  The layout you want for the guide will look something like this:

Now, the number of steps in each of the minis tutorials will vary (a tutorial could have 5 stages, 12, etc.); but basically, each step will consist of three elements. Text, a screenshot and additional notes that might provide a hint, a reference for more information or additional comment.

Now, my question is... is it possible to plan the autoflowing such as the three elements can "auto format" as a group, if I need to insert a new step between two existing?  In other words, if I have the three steps above and then decide to do another step between 2 and 3, it is possible to automatically move existing step 3 to step 4 on the next page, and the 'new' stage becomes stage 3? (I hope that makes sense).

I tried to look in the help file, but I still confuse. 8-)  Thank you for the pointers help sections or tutorials that might make this a little more clear.

Denise

If you want that step, the screen shot and notes to behave as a unit, you want to probably those parts that make up the unit moves to a new page if one of them is too long to go on the current page, or when you insert one or more units in the stream.

A table is a way to handle this. You can set the cell borders to white, wide enough to create the spaces between the items; You can also set boundaries for zero width and color no, set cell overlays for maintaining inter-point spaces.

To create the dial, you use a paragraph style that uses a numbered list. If each element on a line will be numbered the same - 1, 1, 1, then 2, 2, 2, etc., your paragraph styles can use one of the following methods to get the numbering:

* Use a numbered list. For the style of paragraph number step, use a numbering system that increases by one for each stage. For the screenshot and the numbered note of paragraph styles, use the same numbered list, put in place to keep the same number step whose line it is on.

Here is an example of how to configure things:

Here is a zipped file InDesign Interchange (.inx) which contains living examples of paragraph styles and numbered list and clear screenshots of paragraph styles of numbering Panel settings, which you can open in InDesign CS4:

http://DL.dropbox.com/u/363247/static%20numbering%20across%20columns.CS4.inx.zip

HTH

Kind regards

Peter

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