Publish Lite Pages

Publications comprise a series of pages; you can use the Pages panel to add, move, and remove those pages as needed. You can also double-click pages in this panel to open them on the canvas for editing.

The actions in the Pages panel are enabled using drag and drop or the right-click context menus.

Pages panel

Note: When you build your output publication, the sequence of the pages typically matches the sequence of pages in this panel.

Function

Highlight

Description

Add Page

Green arrow

Add a new page to your publication. The new page is added immediately after the currently selected page.

Tip: You can, alternatively, create a new page from either the option on the overhead ribbon or the right-click context menu (blue arrow above).

Thumbnail

Black arrow

Each page is represented by a thumbnail. The thumbnail gives a visual impression of the graphics on the page.

  • You can double-click the thumbnail to open the page on the canvas for editing.
  • You can drag the thumbnail to a different position in this panel relative to the other pages. This changes the page order in both the app and the final output publication.

Note: The page that is currently selected in the panel is highlighted using a border.

Page number

Orange arrow

Each page has a number. The number is assigned automatically, based on the position of the page.

Context menus

The right-click context menu allows you to interact with the pages in the Pages panel. The options differ depending on what is selected:

Function

What is selected?

Description

Add Page

Page or background

Add a new page to your publication. The new page is added immediately after the currently selected page.

Tip: You can, alternatively, create a new page from either the option on the overhead ribbon or the plus icon at the top of the panel (green arrow above).

Duplicate Page

Page

Create a copy of the selected page alongside the original.

Copy Page

Page

Copy the page to your clipboard.

Paste Page

Page or background

Paste a copied page from your clipboard to either another position in this publication or into another publication.

Delete page

Page

Remove the page from the publication entirely.

Content items in duplicated and copied pages

When you duplicate or copy and paste a page, the new page is created with its content items "duplicated" in the same position as the original:

  • If the page is pasted into a publication that uses a different theme to the source publication, the target theme's fonts, colors, and so on are applied wherever the original page's formatting was not manually overridden.
  • All basic content items (text fields, placeholders, variable text fields, shapes, and images) that are present on the original page are duplicated in the copy.
  • Any discoveries are shown in both source and target pages, but as different views of the same underlying discovery rather than as duplicated visuals. This means that any changes that you make to the underlying discovery (right-click Open in Discover) affects the visual on both pages.
  • Any interactions between copied content items (including discoveries) and slicers are enabled in the target if the slicer exists in the target publication.

Tip: If you paste a page into a publication that uses a different page size or orientation to the source, you may want to improve the layout of your content items on your copied pages either using the Auto Layout tool or by moving and resizing the content items on your canvas.

Tip: You can apply formatting changes to your discoveries that apply only to one of the pages using the formatting options on the ribbon. For example, you can show the legend for a discovery on one page and hide it on another.