Adjusting Layouts

You certainly are not expected to set layouts perfectly the first time, or every time. Fortunately, InDesign has a powerful layout adjustment feature that moves and resizes objects as you change the page size or margins.

Once layout adjustment is turned on, any changes to the layout will alter the position of the elements on both the master pages and the document pages.

To set the layout adjustment options:

1.	Choose Layout > Layout Adjustment. This opens the Layout Adjustment dialog box . The Layout Adjustment dialog box controls which elements change if you change document attributes such as the page size or margins.
2.	Check Enable Layout Adjustment so that elements change position when page size, orientation, margins, or columns are changed . When Enable Layout Adjustment is turned on, the items on the page adjust their size and position when the margins and page size are changed.
3.	Set a value for the Snap Zone to specify how close an object must be before it will align and move to a margin or column guide, or page edge.
4.	Check Allow Graphics and Groups to Resize so that elements change size as well as move during the adjustment.
5.	Check Allow Ruler Guides to Move to have ruler guides move as part of the layout adjustment.
6.	Check Ignore Ruler Guide Alignments to keep objects from moving along with ruler guides.
7.	Check Ignore Object and Layer Locks to move objects that are locked or on locked layers.
8.	Click OK to set the options. The document will change according to the new settings when the document setup or margins are changed.