Explore the step-by-step process of adding page numbers and other essential information to a company newsletter. This article offers in-depth instructions on how to utilize type tool, selection tool, and insert special characters in your design with a focus on Domus Interior Design's newsletter template.
Key Insights
- The process begins by selecting the A-Master within Pages where the company name, 'Domus Interior Design', is added at the base of the left-hand side using the type tool. The font 'Chivo' is used in a bold style and the size is adjusted to 10 points.
- On the right-hand side of the page, the company's URL is added. This requires copying the left text frame to the right, and aligning it with the right-hand side. The URL is typed in all lowercase letters.
- Adding page numbers involves duplicating the text block, replacing the text with a special character that signifies the current page number. These numbers will appear on all actual pages. This process is completed for both the left and right pages of the newsletter.
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In this video, we'll be adding page numbers to our newsletter. So let's begin by going into our A-Master within Pages, and we'll simply double-click our A-Master, and on the left-hand side, right at the base, we're going to add the title of our company, Domus Interior Design.
Let’s utilize our type tool and drag out a text frame. Within this text frame, we'll type Domus Interior Design, and for this font, let’s hit CTRL A to select all of it, and going to our Properties panel, we can now define the characters. We’ll maintain Chivo, and rather than utilizing Light, let’s use Bold.
In addition, let’s highlight 'Domus, ' and for this bottom section, we’ll make 'Domus' all caps and 'Interior Design' in regular font. Next, let’s also hit CTRL A to select all the text, and simply drop the size down to 10 points. From here, we’ll use our Selection tool and move it down slightly from the margins.
Using the arrow keys on our keyboard, we’ll hold Shift, and let’s hit down once. In addition, let’s also add a right-hand side, and on this right side, we’re going to put the URL. To do this, let’s hold ALT, and drag our left text frame, and dragging it all the way to the right, we’ll hold Shift, so we drag only horizontally, and let’s line it up with the right-hand side.
To confirm, we’ll check the reference point on the right side and make sure our X value is at 16.5, then hit ENTER. From here, we’ll also right align our paragraph, and let’s replace this text typing www.domus.design. In addition, we’ll also hit CTRL A on the keyboard, and let’s reduce it from All Caps to All Lowercase Letters. As one final addition, let’s also add page numbers.
To do this, we’ll again use our Selection tool, and holding ALT, let’s drag this over to the left, onto our left-hand page, and holding Shift, we’ll make sure we’re in line. Then, if we zoom in, we’ll go to our Transform panel, and make sure that our bottom right corner is right at 8 inches. From here, let’s replace this text, hitting the Delete key, and then we’re going to add a page number.
When we’re adding a page number in our master, it will show up as a special character, so we’ll go to Type, and going down to the bottom, we’re going to insert a special character. From here, we’ll go to Markers, and our page number will be the marker, and we’ll select Current Page Number. In this case, it shows up as an A, signifying that on the actual pages, the number will be there.
Let’s scroll our perspective to the right, and one more time, we’ll use our Selection tool, so we can create a page number on the inside of the right page as well. We’ll hold ALT, and drag to the right, and we can reduce the size of this, so it aligns up with our left margin, and we’ll simply do Left Align. Now, zooming out, we can see what this looks like by going back into our pages.
We go to pages 2 and 3, then hit W. We’ll see that we have our title on the bottom left, our page numbers in the middle, and on the right, we have our URL. As one final change, we do want to remove these from page 1, and so to remove this from page 1, we can do it one of two ways. The first way is we can remove individual elements by holding CTRL and Shift, and selecting the element.
We can then simply use the Delete key, and the second way is to right-click on the actual page, and select Override All Master Page Elements. Let’s now drop down to page 8, or our back cover page, and we want to remove these from the back cover as well. So, we’ll right-click, and go to Override All Master Page Items, and from here our objects are now editable.
We can hold Shift, select both, and simply remove them. On the remainder of our pages, they’re down at the bottom, and out of the way, since they’re from the master page, so we can’t edit them without holding CTRL and Shift. In our next video, we’re going to be working on page 4. See you there!