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Hi there! In this video we’ll learn to create a  

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trifold restaurant menu card in 
InDesign, so let’s get started.

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Before we create a document, let me explain 
the setup, so that you understand it well.

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So this is the layout of the outside panel. On 
the extreme left is the first page, which is the  

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flap of the brochure, and that’s why it’s going to 
be slightly narrower than the rest of the pages,  

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because it will fold inside, and the front cover 
will rest on top of it. Page 2 will be the back of  

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the menu card, and page 3 is going to be the front 
cover, hence will have information like the name  

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of the restaurant, address, etc. You can also find 
that the folds are coded with letters BAA, which  

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is nothing but the masters that will be applied to 
them. Now let’s move on to the inside panel. Here,  

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the page on the extreme left is page 4, which will 
have A master applied to it, and so will page 5,  

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which is the center page, and the one on the 
extreme right is page 6, which is the back of page  

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1, hence it is also narrower than the other two 
pages, and has B master applied to it. Now keeping  

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these settings in mind, let’s create our document. 
I’m going to change the units to millimeters.  

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I have already selected ‘Letter’ as the document 
size. Let’s select the landscape orientation,  

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and then click the width tab, and enter the 
forward slash which is considered the division  

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sign, and then the number 3, as we need to divide 
the page into three individual pages, which will  

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eventually be 6 pages back to back. The moment you 
move the cursor somewhere else, you shall find how  

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brilliantly InDesign does the calculation for you 
of the width. Now remember I told you that one  

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panel is going to be narrower than the rest, which 
means the rest two panels will be broader than  

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that one panel, so let’s add another millimeter 
to this to make it broader, so instead of 93.133,  

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it shall become 94.133 millimeters. Let’s also 
uncheck the facing pages option, and enter  

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6 pages. Update the margins to 10 millimeters, 
and bleed to 3 millimeters, and hit create.

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Once in the document, drag the pages panel 
out, and expand it. Now you can see all 6  

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pages have A master applied to them, and the 
width of the A master is 94.133 millimeters.  

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So we’ll need another master with a reduced width, 
as one panel of the trifold will be narrower,  

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and when I say one panel, I mean two pages, back 
to back. Let’s take the cursor to the master zone,  

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and right-click, and select ‘new master,’ from the 
options. In the popup window, you can base your B  

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master on A master, or even if you don’t do 
that, it shouldn’t really matter for now,  

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but let’s still select the based on master option 
to ‘A master.’ Now since our B master is going to  

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be narrower, and we’ve added a millimeter to the 
other two pages, we’ll have to reduce those two  

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millimeters from this narrower panel, so 93.133 
was the original size, and minus 2 millimeters  

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from it will bring it down to 91.133 millimeters, 
so let’s enter that here, and hit okay.

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Let me take you to our setup, and you could see 
that our page 6 was narrower, and obviously had B  

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master applied to it. Similarly, page 1, which is 
the back of page 6 is also narrower, hence has B  

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master applied to it as well, so now we’re going 
to replicate this setting to create the spread.  

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So let’s get back to InDesign, and select page 
1, and hold Command on a Mac, or Ctrl on a PC,  

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and click page 6 to select them both. Now take 
your cursor to page 1, and right-click, and  

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from the options, select ‘apply master to pages’ 
option, and in the popup window, update the apply  

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master to ‘B master.’ You can find that the two 
pages are already selected here, so just hit okay.  

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When you get this conflict popup, just hit ‘use 
master page size.’ You can find that the selected  

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pages have B master applied to them now. And 
our setup is now falling into place, so you  

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can see the BAA, and then AAB format, so let’s 
place the pages together to create the spread.  

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If you click page 2, and drag it to place it next 
to page 1, you’ll find that it refuses to sit next  

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to it. So what we need to do is click the burger 
menu at the top right corner of the pages panel,  

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and uncheck the ‘allow document 
pages to shuffle’ option.  

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Now when we try to drag page 2 to make it sit 
next to page 1, it will comfortably sit there.  

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Drag page 3 next to page 2, the same way. So 
that’s the spread for the outside panel ready.  

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Similarly, drag page 5, and 
then page 6 next to page 4.  

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And there you go, we’ve got our BAA setup for 
the outside panel, and AAB for the inside panel.

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Let’s start working on the inside panel 
first, so double-click page 4 to select it,  

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and before creating any elements, 
let’s first go to the layers panel,  

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and rename ‘layer 1,’ ‘background.’ Create 
another layer, and rename it ‘text & images.’  

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Now lock the background layer, as we’ll 
need it at the end of the session.  

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Select the ‘text & images’ layer, as all 
our work, for now, will be on this layer.

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Let’s begin by establishing the center of the page 
in the middle of the spread, so let’s grab the  

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rectangle tool, and make a rectangle stretching 
from the left of this page to the right,  

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and then drop a guide at the center, and let’s 
delete the rectangle. Let’s drag the ruler from  

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the corner, and reset it at the top left corner of 
the spread. Now drop a guide from the ruler above  

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at 40 millimeters from the top of the center 
page. Let’s grab the pen tool, and let me zoom in,  

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and click the top left corner of this page, and 
then the center point where both the guides meet,  

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and then the top right corner of the page, 
and let’s also take the two points of the  

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bleed space on the right, and then on 
the left, before closing the shape.  

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Double-click the color picker, and 
let’s pick a golden color for this.

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With the shape still selected, 
right-click, and go to effects,  

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and then drop shadow. Let the mode be multiply, 
and color black. Change the angle to 90 degrees.  

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Update the X offset to 0. Increase 
the size to 3 millimeters.  

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I think we’ll have to reduce the Y offset a bit, 
so let’s reduce it to 2 millimeters, and hit okay.  

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Now pick the type tool, and make 
a text box, and type in ‘menu.’  

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Select the text, and change 
the font to ‘Roboto Black.’  

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Increase the font size to 30 points, and 
center-align it. Now place the text on top of  

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the golden shape we’ve created. Let’s check the 
preview. I think we need to lighten the golden  

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shade a bit. Let’s double-click the color picker, 
and lighten the shade a bit, and hit okay.

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Now we need a table on the left to add the 
menu items, so let’s go to table, and select  

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‘create table.’ On the popup window, update the 
body rows to 10, columns to 2, and hit okay.  

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Once your cursor is loaded with the table, take 
it to the top left corner of the page on the left,  

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and then click and drag it to cover the entire 
page. Since we won’t need such a wide column  

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for price, bring the cursor to the dividing line 
between the two columns, and drag it to the right,  

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as illustrated. Now take your cursor to the line 
on the extreme right of the table, and drag it in,  

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as illustrated. Let’s go to window, and 
then type and tables, and select ‘table.’  

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Set the table panel aside, and then type in 
‘starters’ in the first row in capital letters.  

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Now select the text, and from the table panel, 
center-align it vertically. With the text still  

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selected, update the font to ‘Silom,’ and font 
size to 18 points. Select the text once again,  

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and grab the eyedropper tool, and steal the 
golden color from the shape we created earlier.  

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With the text still selected, go to window, 
and then styles, and select paragraph styles.  

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Create a new paragraph style, and rename it 
‘menu_heading.’ Let’s pick the type tool, and make  

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a text box on the right, and then right-click, and 
fill it with placeholder text, so that we could  

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steal some text from here. Now copy a line from 
here, and paste it into the second row. Select  

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this text, and change it to capital letters, 
and then update the font to ‘Roboto Medium.’  

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With the text still selected, create another 
paragraph style, and rename it ‘item_heading.’  

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Now copy some more text from the text box on 
the right, and paste it under the item heading.  

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Select this text, and change 
the font to ‘Roboto Regular.’  

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While the text is selected, using the eyedropper 
tool, steal the golden color from the shape  

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created earlier. Let’s select the entire text of 
the row and copy it, and paste it a few times.  

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Leave just one row for another heading, and then 
paste it to fill the rest of the rows as well.

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Let’s select the first heading, and copy 
it, and then paste it in the vacant row,  

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and then center-align it vertically. 
Now change the heading to ‘barbecue.’  

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Let’s now type in the price, and then right-align 
it, and with the price still selected, update the  

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font to ‘Roboto Medium.’ Let’s type in the prices 
for other items as well. Select the first price  

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that we’ve already styled, and then create a 
new paragraph style, and rename it ‘price.’  

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Now select the rest of the prices, and click 
the ‘price’ paragraph style. Select the prices,  

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and copy them, and then paste them for the 
barbecue items. Since our table is ready,  

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let’s get rid of these black lines, cuz they make 
the table look ugly, so select the entire table.  

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Now you see this small grid with blue and black 
lines. Click the black lines, to turn them blue.  

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Now go to the stroke color option, and select 
‘none.’ Check the preview, and you can find the  

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lines gone. It’s time to delete this text box 
in the middle, cuz we won’t need it anymore.  

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Now select the table on the left, hold Shift 
and Option on a Mac, or Shift and Alt on a PC,  

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and click and drag the table to the right. 
Since this panel is slightly narrower,  

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the table doesn’t fit well, so make necessary 
adjustments to shorten the width of the columns,  

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and this page is sorted. We’ll update the 
headings in a bit, so don’t worry about that.  

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Let’s grab the rectangle frame tool, and make 
a rectangle covering the entire center page,  

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including the bleed. Now go to file, and then 
place, and locate the image on the computer,  

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and hit open. Once the image is up, 
let’s right-click, and go to arrange,  

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and select ‘send to back.’ Our inside panel is 
ready now, so let’s select the table on the left  

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and copy it, and then paste it on the outside 
panel, and let’s align it to the center page.  

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Time to update the headings, so let’s change 
this to ‘dessert,’ and change the other one to  

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‘salads.’ That reminds me that we’re yet to update 
the headings on the inside panel, so let’s quickly  

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do that. Let’s update this to ‘main course,’ 
and this should be changed to ‘beverages.’  

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Let’s get back to the outside panel, and grab the 
rectangle frame tool, and make a large rectangle  

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covering the entire page on the left, including 
the bleed. Let’s go to file, and then place,  

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and locate the image on the computer, and hit 
open. Now let’s grab the rectangle frame tool  

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once again, and make a rectangle on the right 
page covering a little more than the half page.  

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Then go to file, and then place and locate 
the image on the computer, and hit open.

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Let’s grab the type tool, and make a text 
box, and this small panel will have the name  

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of the restaurant, any contact details, address 
etc., so let’s just type in ‘restaurant name,’  

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and a sub-heading of 
‘breakfast, lunch, and dinner.’  

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We can style it using the paragraph styles we’ve 
created, and then center-align both the text.  

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Let’s now type in an imaginary 
address, email, and a phone number.  

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Since these days home delivery has become a 
big thing, let’s type in the home delivery  

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contact number, and highlight it with the heading 
paragraph style. As a divider, type in ‘l’, and  

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then change the font to ‘Wingdings,’ and it will 
turn it into a black circle, so let’s increase  

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the size of it, and we’re done. Just one last 
thing to add, so let’s go to the layers panel,  

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and hide the text & images layer, and 
unlock the background layer, and select it.  

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Now pick the rectangle frame tool, and make 
a large rectangle covering the entire page.  

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Then go to file, and then place, and locate 
the image on the computer, and hit open.  

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Let’s lower the opacity of the image to about 60%.

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Similarly, add the same image 
to the inside panel as well,  

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and lower the opacity of the image to 
60%, much like we did earlier. Lastly,  

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unhide the text and images layer, and there you go 
guys. The trifold restaurant menu card is ready.

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To export it, go to file, and then export. Type in 
any name for the file, and ensure that the format  

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is set to ‘Adobe PDF Print,’ and hit save. In the 
general section, ensure that the pages option is  

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set to spreads, and not pages, else individual 
pages will print, which we don’t want. Move  

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to ‘marks and bleeds’ tab, and ensure that the 
‘crop marks’ option is checked, and hit export.  

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Now locate the file, and double-click to open it,  

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and that’s how your file is going to look 
electronically, along with the crop marks.

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Alright guys! That concludes our session,  

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and I’m going to see you in the 
next one in just a bit. Good bye!