Adding 11x17 Master Page into a file in a book

[Combs, Richard]

Tim Pann wrote: 
 
> I asked the same question recently and was told it can’t be done –
> changing all Master Pages to the new page size is the appropriate
> behavior. The suggested workaround was to generate a book and create a
> new file containing the different page size, and modifying page
> numbering etc. to create continuity across the book.
> 
> If David Spreadbury’s suggestion works then that renders the advice I
> got incorrect.

Actually, David's suggestion is exactly the same, merely stated differently. The key phrase from his post is "insert the 11x17 page as a component of the book." A component of a book is a file, so David was trying to say use a separate file for the 11x17 page. 

As someone else pointed out, you can't mix page sizes in a file. But you can mix page sizes in a book easily enough by using different files for each page size. 
 
So it's not that it can't be done, and it's not that you have to resort to a "workaround." It works as designed; the "workaround" is the way it's _supposed_ to work. Adding a new file to the book and setting its numbering properties is trivially easy. 


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
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