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Page panel numbering wrong

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October 24, 2017
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Graphic designer creates indd files for catalog - then I take them and turn them to pdfs for online - never had a problem in the past with CS6.

Now we have CC - so I am in Essentials mode (as usual), but when I open a section of pages, the numbering is different than gr. designer has numbered. So her pages numbered 8 -12 in the Pages panel is numbered 1-5 on my computer - which makes it confusing to say the least.

I am IN "Start page numbering at ... " and it will say 8 or 12 or whatever it should be - but in the pages panel to the right, it has the pages as 1, 2, 3 etc.

I've looked everywhere and can't see why this is happening - anyone know?

Correct answer ruthellen15

Work flow is definitely broken - and is going to be a major inconvenience many times a year.

DING DING DING!

Gr. designer figured it out -- I had to go to InDesign>Preferences>General> and then choose Page Numbering/Section Numbering.

Fixed it. Even though I visited there earlier today and saw nothing change - well, it did now. So, thanks again for all of your helps!

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cherylpatrick@mac.om

Participant

I freaking love you... I searched hours and hours and wasted so much time, should have googled it first. Thank you!!!!!!!

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Jacklen5C44

Participant

I'm very grateful for everything

smittmasterflex80

Participant

Thank you so much for this. I set all my page numbering for multiple documents that are going to print next week. I had an issue running a script afterwards so I trashed my preference files, then this morning I noticed all my numbering vanished but the chapters and settings were still there. This saved my sanity, thanks again!!

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Every time you see a gray triangle above the page thumbnail, numbering has been updated manually on that page. It seems to me that you want to turn off the sections and restore automatic numbering on pages 2, 5, 6, 7 and 9 and then go back to the first spread and set the numbering to 8. The remaining pages will update accordingly.

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

amaarora

Community Manager

Hi,

Doesnt the triangle mark the start of a section from that page till the next page with the triangle on top which in a way implies manually changing numbers?

Can this be related to the designer working on book documents and OP on a single document?

-Aman

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Yes to the first question, and maybe, not sure what's going on there for the second question. But either way, all the resets in the middle make it difficult to fix. It should be straightforward in a document (see below) and the designer can still update later if necessary in the book window. Or am I missing something, Aman?

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

ruthellen15Author

Inspiring

This is what I have under Numbering and Section options.

winterm

Legend

6 sections in a 10 pages document? With the same and consistent page numbering? Don’t you find it’s a bit overkill?

Turn off Allow Document Pages to Shuffle, while Allow Selected Spread to Shuffle can be left ON (and there won’t be any brackets around page numbers), leave just the first section (you can't remove it), and see how it goes.

ruthellen15Author

Inspiring

I'm not sure what you mean about 6 sections in a 10 pg. document. I don't create the indd files, I just export them to .pdf. There are two sections of an 17 pg. lookbook of 5 spreads. This screenshot was of Sec. 2 only and the pages should number 8 - 17. On the designer's computer, they are. On mine, they say 1-10.

I am wondering why they don't say 8 - 17 like on her computer.

I've turned off Allow Document Pages to Shuffle, turned on Allow Selected Spread to Shuffle, and back again - the numbering does not change in the pages panel. I have no clue why.