How to create animated menus | InDesign Tutorial

[@AMConcepcion]

Nicely done! This is definitely one of the more complicated effects in InDesign, but one that many people want to use. Thanks!

[@shaped-by-design]

Hi Anne-Marie, thanks so much for your kind words. You're right, it is a tricky technique and there are sooo many 'hidden' features to interactivity in InDesign! I think that's half the fun of it to be honest. 😀

[@seyurienaidoo1324]

Thank you so much - this is exactly what my project needed and no one else has a comprehensive video like this! I've been binging your channel since this project came up and you always seem to have all the advice I need. Greatly appreciate your channel, hope it blows up!

[@shaped-by-design]

Hey Princess Hamtaro, thank you so much for your kind words they are much appreciated! Thanks for watching 😎

[@Polunto]

Been looking for this! Thanks! Great job btw, very well explained!

[@shaped-by-design]

Hey Paul, thanks for your kind words. Glad you found it useful. 😎

[@kaylawood7399]

Hi, do you have a tutorial on linking the menu items to internal pages? I have have the menu working open/close on the button click but can't get the linking to pages working. Thanks!

[@shaped-by-design]

Hi Kayla, you're in luck, we do! It's not the same file, but it does cover how to create buttons and link them to a page. I've shared the video link at the correct timestamp below. In the video, it uses buttons and forms (Window> Interactive> Buttons & Forms) to add a 'next page' action, but you could just select the text frame, turn it into a button and use 'Go to Page' from the actions dropdown menu instead and then type in the page number you want it to go to. Hope this helps! 👍 kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6uoh4uofMlljas

[@shaped-by-design]

Thanks for watching folks, this is another one of those 'hidden' interactive options available to you in InDesign, but really handy for clean, simple interactive layouts.

[@bryangravely]

I hope you're still checking comments on posts this old because I've walked through this a half-dozen times and it seems like it should be working perfectly. But when I click the open button, about 1/4 of the menu shows up immediately, with the other 3/4 off the page, then it flies in from the right like it's supposed to and shows the whole menu. Then when I click the close button it reverses the animation but only to the point where 1/4 of the menu is showing up and that part just stays on the screen forever. Any ideas?

[@blancarodriguez7059]

MARAVILLOSO!! THANKS!

[@shaped-by-design]

Thanks!

[@aahmedfadhel]

thank you for the video I make everything as you do but when I export it doesn't work can you tell me why please?

[@shaped-by-design]

Hi Ahmed, if you're exporting to interactive PDF, animations won't work I'm afraid 😱, despite the name "interactive". You would have to export to ePub (Fixed Layout) or Publish online, both found under the File menu. Hope that helps! 😎

[@meisterleise]

Very nice. But the animations only work in eBup and don't work in a PDF, do they?

[@shaped-by-design]

Yeah, unfortunately Interactive PDF isn't very... interactive. You can use Publish Online via File> Publish Online and that makes it viewable on a webpage (or embedded on your website) and can include everything except form fields.

[@JACandela]

@@shaped-by-design Hi! Thank you very much for the tutorial! The animation works for me when exporting in PDF, but the problem I have is that the menu is visible when opening the PDF document. Is there a way that the menu is hidden from the beginning?

[@manoelacardosoo]

Thank you so much!

[@shaped-by-design]

You're welcome Manoela! Thanks for watching 😎

[@rathishvr]

How to link pages from the master page?

[@shaped-by-design]

In the pages panel ,drag the master name (now called a parent in 2022 version) onto the page thumbnail.