How can I use the new APub 2.6 page migration to swap left and right pages?

[Ben M]

I'm grateful to have the new page management tools, which seem very useful.

At the moment I'm trying to swap the two pages in a two-page spread, like so:

AB -> BA

I just want to swap them, I don't want the fancy automatic page layout reflowing, so I've set the Page Move Options to 'Split Masters' and nothing else checked.

If I select and drag page A to the right (or page B to the left), it creates a new THREE-page spread with just two pages in it.

Now, I do get the order I want (BA), the pagination is correct, and the master splits like I wanted. It also seems to export correctly, although I haven't tested things like cross-reference linking. But I don't want any three-page spreads in my document: it makes the pages panel confusing and I can no longer easily scroll down through my spreads because this one spread is jigged to the side.

Am I missing a trick?

[MikeTO]

Is Reflow Pages off? You need to have it on if you don't want to create a 3-page spread.

If you have a normal facing-page spread master applied to each spread, the default Page Move Options as shown below should work for you. You'd only need to switch to Split Masters if both sides of the spread have different master pages. You may or may not want Anchor Toward Spine selected, you could try it both ways.

[Ben M]

Thanks, it was indeed Reflow Pages (but with Split Masters). I'd wrongly assumed I'd only want that if I wanted to reflow the content frames within the pages.

13 hours ago, MikeTO said:

You'd only need to switch to Split Masters if both sides of the spread have different master pages.

Both sides of the spread had the same master spread, but the pages in that spread were different and I wanted them to keep their master page content when I moved them. Like so:

In case anyone else with the same question finds this, do this: