Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to show you how to reorder,
rearrange, or renumber artboards in Adobe Illustrator.
All right, let's get started.
All right, now I'm going to quickly show you how to do this for those of you who just need
an answer, and then I'll go into more detail about how I got there, or why I would want
to do this.
Okay, so you've got a lot of artboards in your Illustrator document, and when you make
a PDF, they're going to be in this order 123456, like that.
Now, if you want them to be in a different order, let's say you want this one to be first,
all you have to do is click on that artboard, open up your Artboards panel - if you don't
know where that is, it's under Window.
So you can just go to Window > Artboards.
And then let me pull this panel out, I'm going to zoom out a little bit, and we want this
one, which is artboard number 5, to be number 1.
So I'm going to just click it and drag it all the way up to the top and release.
So now artboard 5, the one that is named Artboard 5, it's not actually Artboard 5...you can
rename it to anything you want.
That one which is right in the middle here will actually be page 1 in the PDF now.
So you can reorder these however you want.
Okay, so that's the quick answer.
But if you want a little more detail, we are going to start from scratch.
So I'm going to close this document, and then I'll come up here to Create New, I'll come
up here to Print, & I'll choose Letter.
And then for artboards here, I'm going to choose 8, and we'll create.
Okay, so now we've got the same document we had before.
And off screen, I've gone ahead and added numbers to just show what you might have on
an artboard.
And these are actually numbered in the order that they are.
So here is the order, and this is the artboard name.
So I'm going to rename this one by double clicking.
I'll just call it Beautiful Gems.
And I just did that to show you that this number 2 is not the order...that is just the
artboard name.
So if we click on the first one, you can see that's number 1.
And this one's number 2, etc.
If we print these out, they will print in order like this.
If we save as a PDF, it will also be ordered the same way.
But let's say our boss comes along and says, Oh, this is great, but we need a 5.5.
So we'll say 'All right, we'll just go ahead and add an extra artboard.'
And it kind of sticks it in there wherever, which is also fine.
And I'm going to go ahead, hit CMD Y and just copy these things and paste them on this artboard.
And I'll make it quite a bit smaller.
Okay, so now we have a 5.5.
And we want it to fall between five and six.
When we print this out, or you know, when we make a PDF, right now our artboards are
a little out of order.
So we've got this artboard as number 2.
But now this artboard here is number 4, so we need that to be number 3.
I'm going to click and drag it up underneath artboard 2, and we want artboard 9, which
is the 5.5 to be in between 5 and 6.
So we can click and drag this one in between those two.
And we could also name it 5.5 if we want to.
So this seems all out of order when we look at it on the screen, but the way it's going
to end up in the PDF is correct.
We've got the number one which is beautiful gems, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5.5, 6, 7, 8.
Now normally, I'll go ahead and reorder my artboards on the page too, just so I don't
confuse myself with the way it is.
So for example, I'll hit Shift O, I'll select this artboard and move it over.
And then I'll select this one and move it down here just so it makes sense visually,
even though I don't have to do that - the order itself is here.
And you can see that artboard 6 is showing as artboard 7, which is what we want.
So because we added this one in here, it throws the rest of the numbers off.
Okay, if you like the way I teach and are also interested in die cutting machines like
Cricut or Silhouette, I also have a tutorial channel for those things.
And I'll link that in my description below.
So please check it out.
Thank you!!!