Indesign not showing all pages in pages panel

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
January 11, 2025
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The last few pages in my indesign are not showing up. I've tried the fixes that have been suggested, such as making the panel larger, clearing the data and the preferences. Nothing has worked and when I export to pdf, I can only access the lesser amount even though it's showing that there are more pages. The pdf is telling me that 340 is the max I can go to but I need those other blank pages. According to the picture below page 345 is equivalent to 337. It makes no sense!

I hope someone has come across this and can offer a solution, this is driving me batty!

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leo.r

Community Expert

As others already mentioned, it can be a page numbering issue. Plus if your Acrobat is set to display absolute page numbers (as opposed to "logical" page numbers, or "section numbering" in InDesign terminology), then the page numbers you see in Acrobat can be different from what you see in InDesign (provided your InDesign document is set to display Section Numbering, which is most likely the case).

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harryjames121

Participant

It sounds like a page numbering issue. Check Layout > Numbering & Section Options to ensure the pages aren’t starting a new section with different numbering. Also, double-check the export range when exporting to PDF. Hope this helps!

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

Are the pages available in the document? I mean they are not visible on the Pages panel but can you navigate to them via scrolling? If nothing that has been suggested works then this surely is document corruption of some kind. Maybe time to move the pages/content to a new document and progressively deleting pages from this document while doing so.

-Manan

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

Also wonder if there are any hidden pages which is a new feature

https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/indesign/using/whats-new/2025.html#hide-spread

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

When panels are not responding as respected

Try resetting your preferences:

Windows: Start InDesign, and then press Shift+Ctrl+Alt. Click Yes when asked if you want to delete preference files.
macOS: While pressing Shift+Option+Command+Control, start InDesign. Click Yes when asked if you want to delete preference files.
A dialog will appear asking to delete the InDesign Preferences, select 'Yes' on this dialog.
Further info and instructions here if needed:
https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/kb/indesign-preferences-support-file-locations.html