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Last updated 11/16/2011
• To remove all master overrides from a spread, in the Pages panel, target the spread (or master spread) from which
you want to remove all master overrides. Choose Edit > Deselect All to make sure that no objects are selected. In
the Pages panel, choose Remove All Local Overrides in the Pages panel menu.
If you’ve detached master page objects, you cannot restore them to the master page; however, you can delete the
detached objects and reapply the master to the page.
If you reapply a master to a page that contains overridden master page objects, the objects with overrides are detached
and all master page objects reapplied. This may result in two copies of some objects on the page. You’ll need to delete
the detached objects to exactly match the look of the master.
Hide master items
Use the Hide Master Items to hide master page items on one or more pages in your document. Hidden master items
are not printed or output.
1 In the Pages panel, select the pages and spreads on which you’d like the master items to be hidden.
2 From the Pages panel menu, choose Hide Master Items.
To display master items again, select the spreads in the Pages panel and choose Show Master Items from the Pages
panel menu.
Import a master from another document
You can import masters from another InDesign document (any version) into the active document. If your destination
document contains master pages that have different names from any master page in the source document, those pages
and their document page overrides will be unchanged.
1 In the Pages panel menu, choose Load Master Pages.
2 Locate and double-click the InDesign document containing the master pages you want to import.
3 Determine what should occur if a loaded master has the same name as a master in the current document.
• Choose Replace Master Pages if you want the masters from the source to override the destination document’s
masters with the same names. If your destination document does not have any overridden items, it is safe to Replace
Master Pages on import.
• Choose Rename Master Pages to change the page prefixes to the next available letter in the alphabet.
Once you have imported masters from a source document, a link is set up between the source document and the
destination document. When you subsequently load masters from the same source document, the association between
overridden items and their parent items on reloaded master pages is maintained. This association lets you keep master
pages in different documents consistent without putting those documents into a book.
If you want to use this method of keeping master pages consistent, you should load the master pages from the source
document before overriding any objects on the master. If your document has overridden items and you have never
imported masters from any source, those overridden items become detached the first time you load from a source
document and replace master pages with the same name as the parent master of the overridden items.
If you subsequently import masters from a different source document, however, and choose Replace Master Pages, the
overridden items may become detached. Any same-named masters from the new source document will be applied to
the document page containing overridden items, creating two sets of objects.