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Choosing a Master Page Layout
You select a design for your page by applying a master page layout. Aperture provides dierent
master page layouts depending on the theme you choose. You choose a page design from the
Set Master Page pop-up menu. For example, you might create a single-photo page and then
later decide to change that page to hold two photos.
You can apply dierent master page designs to a page to nd the design that works best for
your project.
To apply a master page design to a page
1 Select the page in the Pages pane of the Book Layout Editor.
2 Do one of the following:
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Choose a master page from the Set Master Page pop-up menu.
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Click the disclosure triangle on the page, then choose a master page from the pop-up menu.
To reapply a master page design to a page
If you change a page’s design by repositioning or resizing boxes and you want to start over with
the original design, you can reapply the original master page design.
1 Select the page you want to change in the Pages pane of the Book Layout Editor.
2 Choose Reapply Master from the Book Action pop-up menu (with a gear icon).
Copying Pages
If you’ve made changes to a page and you want to use that page again in your book, you can
duplicate it. Or, you might duplicate a page and then make small modications to it, keeping
both the new page design and the original for later use.
To copy pages
1 In the Pages pane of the Book Layout Editor, select the page or pages you want to duplicate.
You can Shift-click pages in the Pages pane to select multiple pages.
2 Do one of the following:
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Choose Edit > Duplicate.
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Choose Duplicate Page from the Add Pages pop-up menu.
Reordering Pages in a Book
You can move pages within a book. If you need to move a particular page forward or backward
in the page order, you can drag it to a new location in the book structure.
To move a page in your book
1 Select the page in the Pages pane of the Book Layout Editor.
2 Drag the page to a new location.