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July 19, 2025
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Create a paragraph number for many chapters in Book

  • July 19, 2025
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I need to create a aphorism in the first chapter using the paragraph

 

Then, in Chapter 2, I want to start automatically in  10

The problem is that I have 35  chapters to include.

 

Thanks 

Jorge Ribeiro

 

 

3 replies

Barb Binder
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 19, 2025

Hi @fierce_guide0798:

 

I see you are new here—welcome. 

 

Can you please clarify your workflow?

  • Are you working with one InDesign document, or with multiple InDesign .indd files, pulled together into an InDesign book file (.indb)?
  • Are you asking to how increment the chapter titles by 9 and then by 10s? i.e., 1, 10, 20., 30, 40... etc.

 

Details help us help you faster, and eliminate guesswork. And that said, before you provide the clarification, I'm going to guess that your best bet is to number these manually because auto-numbers increment by 1s. As a workaround you might hide the undesirable numbers, but that's likely more work than just typing in the numbers.

 

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
Peter Spier
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 19, 2025

So does Chapter 3 start at 20? Some other number?

Willi Adelberger
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 19, 2025

Where is your problem?