About Parent Pages

If you've ever found yourself manually copying a header to dozens of pages or updating a footer across an entire document, Parent Pages offer a more efficient approach. They provide a foundation for creating consistent layouts while maintaining the flexibility to customize individual pages when needed.

A Parent Page (previously known as a Master Page) functions as a reusable template that you can apply to multiple pages. Any element you place on a Parent Page, such as logos, page numbers, headers, footers, or placeholder frames, automatically appears on every document page where that parent is applied. These items display a dotted border to distinguish them from regular page content and cannot be selected unless you override them.

Changes made to a Parent Page are instantly applied to all associated pages, helping you maintain consistency throughout multi-page documents. Parent Pages support multiple layers. Items on a parent layer appear behind items on the same layer of a document page, while assigning a parent item to a higher layer brings it in front of lower-layer content.

You can create multiple parents to explore different layout ideas or save parents in templates to speed up new document setup. Parent Pages can also include empty frames that act as placeholders, and changes to parent-level margins or columns can automatically adjust layout on connected pages. Automatic page numbers placed on a parent always display the correct number for each page or section where that parent is applied.