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accordingly. Therefore, this adjustment is best made at the end of the
project.
Here is how to do it.
1) In the master document itself—not in the subdocument—place the
cursor just in front of the Page field on the first page of the first
chapter. Right-click and choose Fields from the pop-up menu.
2) In the Edit Fields dialog box (Figure 378), type a negative even
number (–2, –4, etc.) in the Offset box. Click OK to save this
change.
Figure 378. Using an offset to start at a different page number
3) You might need to make the same change on the second page of
the first chapter.
Including landscape pages in a portrait-oriented
master document
The problem
Master documents ignore manual page breaks in subdocuments if the
manual break specifies the following page style. Landscape pages are
inserted into portrait-oriented documents by inserting a manual page
and specifying a landscape page style (and then changing back to
portrait orientation by inserting another manual break and specifying
the following page style). This technique works fine until the document
becomes a subdocument within a master document. At that point the
landscape pages become portrait pages and the page break itself is
ignored.
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