Sorting Pages in Pagemaker

Sorting Pages:

The Layout > Sort Pages command is a very handy tool that provides you with instant thumbnails of all the pages in your publication. It also accurately depicts double sided documents, and even provides an adequate account of a document.

But the main attraction of the Sort Pages command is that it will quickly move pages, and all elements, to different places in a publication. As with inserting and removing pages, resorting pages changes the flow of a multipage text file.

Sorting pages is a matter of clicking and dragging. You select the page to move by clicking it; for multiple pages, hold down Shift as you click each one. Once selected, drag any of the selected pages to the desired new location. If your publication is double sided, then PageMaker shows you pages in pairs and treats its page spread as a single entity. When you reorder pages, the thumbnails of each page are resorted, and the original page number, with dotted lines around it, is shown next to the new page number.