You can also CMD+SHIFT+drag over an area to override all the objects that the marquee rectangle touches. Now you’ve overridden and made accessible all objects applied by the master page. To override all master page items for the current page or spread, slide on up to the Pages panel flyout menu and select Override All Master Page Items (Figure 1). And if you move the object on the document page, rotating it on the master page doesn’t affect what’s on the document page. For example, overriding a text frame breaks the content link-if you then type in the text frame on the master page, it won’t appear on the document page.
If you later change the paragraph style font family to Myriad Pro, the overridden attribute remains-the italic word stays italic but adopts the new font family attribute to become Myriad Pro italic. If you’ve defined a paragraph style as Times New Roman and then manually make one word in a paragraph italic (creating a paragraph style override), it becomes Times New Roman italic. It might help to think of master items in InDesign the same way you think of text to which you’ve applied a paragraph style. For instance, if you override a picture frame and apply a stroke to it on the document page, and then later go back and add a fill to the master page version, the fill will also apply to the document page item, but the stroke will remain on the document page item.
Overriding doesn’t completely disassociate the object from its master item original rather, the object will continue to update with the master item except for your overrides.
You’re then free to change it however you like.
It will unlock, override, and become a document page item. To override (access) one master item at a time, CMD+SHIFT-click/CTRL+SHIFT-click on the master page item. In other words: Ow! Can’t touch this! The difference in the way the two apps handle master page items can be frustrating at first, but rest assured, you can override those untouchable master page items. Unlike XPress, InDesign locks master page items to prevent accidental repositioning and alteration. If you’re a QuarkXPress super freak newly boogying to the InDesign beat, you’ll notice that you can’t just click to select master page items on document pages. But what about those occasions when a document page requires something a little different, when a master page item needs to be altered in one instance only? That’s where it’s useful to override or detach the item from the master page. Putting common elements on a master page lets you alter those elements on all document pages with one change to the master.
Everyone knows how important master pages are in expediting the creation of multi-page documents with common elements, such as page numbers, headers, footers, and backgrounds. Nothing too hard core, just enough to start your feet tapping. Let’s start simply with an introductory groove.