How to refer "Last page number" to the book total pages?

Thanks, Steve!

Well, it was definitely all me. Perhaps I had not enough coffee today… ?

Should have done more scrolling on my German InDesign Help page:

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Strange enough, I cannot find a description how cross-references work in InDesign's own help pages.

Only within InCopy help pages. Basically this should work the same, so here is the link to the InCopy reference:

https://helpx.adobe.com/incopy/using/cross-references.html

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Hi studioia,

for the y-value in "Page x of y" you could use a cross-reference to a text anchor on the last page of your book.

But this is only semi-automatic:

Every time you add a new document at the end of your list of documents or if you add new pages at the end of the last document in the list of documents in your book file you either have to cut/paste the target of the cross-reference or to move the target of the cross-reference to the last page of the last document in your book file.

However this approach will fail if you need a total of pages where you use different numbering systems throughout the book. Or no continous numbering at all. In a book file where you start numbering in the first document with 1 on the first page and end continous numbering at the last page of the last document it will work.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )