You could Insert Special Character > Markers > Section Marker in a text frame on the master pages. Not sure I would recommend this, just going to mention it. Or make a story with the numbers 1-200 and link together the text frames. Simply go from spread to spread and enter the spread numbers manually. Sounds overwhelming, but it won't take long. That's 600 keyboard presses and 200 clicks. Repeat 4-6 until all spread number text frames are linked.Click the frame to link it with the previous.Hold Shift and press Page Down two times to get to the next spread number frame.Click the (now red) text frame linking icon (unsure about the correct term) of the frame.Insert 200 paragraph breaks in the story.Unlock the spread number text frame on the first spread by holding Ctrl/Cmd + Shift while clicking it.Place the text frame for the spread number in the same position on all masters.(The master pages can all be based on the same empty master spread, but it doesn't help autoflowing across different masters.) I can't see a way to automate the process at this stage of your project when you have different master pages. You can use a paragraph style with Numbering as in the link you've provided, but without autoflow. Most of them aren't "dynamic" in the sense that if you start moving spreads around, the numbering won't be correct anymore. I see (at least) five different ways to do this. This even works when you create a table of contents or index.I've never heard of or thought about spread numbering before, but why not? That means go to the first page, no matter what it’s called.)Īnyway, now you have prefixes on your pages and all is happy in the world. That’s because the first page is “A-1” or “B-1” or whatever. You cannot just type “1” to jump to the first page of the document anymore. But if you press Command-J or Ctrl+J for Go To Page, you’re going to have trouble. Double-clicking on the page in the Pages panel always takes you there.
#Indesign page number how to#
(Quick tangent on how to get back to the document page.
(Shortcut: just type Command-Option-Shift-N, or Ctrl+Alt+Shift+N.) When you return to the document page, you’ll see the page number with the prefix: Now, I go to the Master Page, add a new text frame, and use the Type > Insert Special Characters > Markers > Current Page Number feature to add the automatic page number. Finally, I like seeing the section prefixes inside the Pages panel, so I turn on the Include Prefix when Numbering Pages checkbox. More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today.īecause we want each document to restart at page number 1, I’ll also choose the Start Page Numbering option and type 1 into the field. Once you have that Numbering and Section Options dialog box open, you can add a letter in the “Section Prefix” field: (That black triangle shows up at the beginning of each section if you have more than one section in a single document, you’ll see more than one of them.)
You can get there by choosing it from the Layout menu, or (what I do) just double-click the little black triangle above the first page in your book in the Pages panel. To achieve this in InDesign, you need to open the Numbering and Section Options dialog box for each document in the book. Then the page numbering should be A-1, A-2, and so on in the first document… in the second document it would be B-1, B-2, and so on… We have several articles about page numbers already, but I want to focus on one aspect of numbering (or adding “folios” as some call them): adding prefixes.įor example, let’s say you want each document in a book to have a prefix such as A, B, C, and so on. For a page-layout program, adding page numbers can be surprisingly confusing! But fear not, it’s not as bad as it sometimes seems.