Xhanging page number styles within a document

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Hoping someone could help me out!I’m working on a large multipage project- think book- I want contents, introduction and all that other fluff in the front numbered by Roman numerals and then when the book actually begins I’d like to switch to regular numbers.I am new to InDesign and teaching myself- had the entire book numbered- then I switched the entire book to be Roman numerals- then selected the page I wanted to begin having regular numbers but I cannot get the regular numbering to start with 1- when I type 1 into any of the available options it does this weird thing where it shuffles all of the pages down from the one I have selected?

James Gifford—NitroPress · Answer

In the Pages pane, right-click on the document page (icon) where you want the new numbering to start. Click Numbering & Section Options:

That brings up this menu:

In there, check to Start (a new) Section, Start Numbering (for the section) at 1, and select the numbering style.

Normally, you do this only once, on the page where you want 1/Arabic numbering to start. But you have to do it for the very first page (and section) as well to set the lower-case Roman numbering for the front material section, too. (In complex documents, you might set section numbering for six or a dozen or more sections, but that's usually for more technical documents.)

Note the little down-arrow over Page 1 up there — that's the indicator that a section has been started on that page.

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