Creating a custom page layout for chapters, sections, and pages

You can create a custom page layout based on a page within your title. For example, suppose you have a page that contains a paragraph of text on the left, an image to the right of that text, and a textual caption beneath the image. If you create a custom page layout based off that page, the page layout will contain a place holder for text on the left, a place holder for an image on the right, and another place holder for text beneath the image.

Instead of creating a new custom page layout, you can also replace an existing layout based on a page within your title. For details, see Replacing a page layout from chapters, sections, and pages.

To create the custom page layout:

In the Title Explorer, select the chapter, section, or page from which you want to create the page layout and click the Properties ribbon. Alternatively, double-click the chapter, section, or page to display the corresponding Properties ribbon.
In the Page Layout group, click Save As. Alternatively, click the Manage graphic and click Save Current Page as Layout from the Manage Page Layouts window.

The Save Current Page as Layout window opens.
In the Save Current Page as Layout window, specify a name for the new page layout and click OK.

The new layout is added to the list of available page layouts. Custom layouts can be deleted as necessary. For details, see Deleting a custom page layout for chapters, sections, and pages.