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EmmaCastelein03
EmmaCastelein03
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January 22, 2024
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Automatic image numbering doesn't work

  • January 22, 2024
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Hi! I read a few other posts about this but I don't really understand what they mean so I'm gonna ask it again. 

 

My image numbers won't line up. And I read that my graphic text boxes are not in the right order? I put them in the right order but this does nothing to the numbers... I don't understand how to fix this. 

 

I used the automatic number trick. (i added 2 screens. Indesign is in English but the text I wrote is in dutch ((afbeelding means Image)) it goes from 99 --> 97 --> 95 --> 100 --> etc.

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Correct answer jmlevy

I have over 150 images... So this means I would have to remove everything and do it all over but in the right order?


I have over 150 images... So this means I would have to remove everything and do it all over but in the right order?

Yes, it's tedious but I cannot see another solution (that does not mean that there is not another solution). And you don't need to remove all: as I wrote, select the frame that must be numbered as 1 (or the first number of the whole sequence), cut it and paste it in place: temporarily it will be numbered with the last number but it does not matter. Next, select the frame that must be the second one and repeat the process (cut then paste in place).

https://www.dropbox.com/home/Public?preview=ADJUSTING_ORDER.mov

 

But just to be clear, the solution that @rob day suggests you to automate the numbering is to thread the text frames. If the frames are not threaded, the only solution is to use a list, as you did.

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rob day
rob day
Braniac
January 22, 2024

Hi @EmmaCastelein03 , There is the Current Page Number marker—Type>Insert Special Character>Markers>Current Page Number, which is what you seem to be showing in your capture:

 

 

 

There is also the Bullets and Numbering trick, which you seem to be describing that requires threaded text frames with Frame Break white space characters inserted into each frame—Type>Insert Break Character>Frame Break

 

EmmaCastelein03
EmmaCastelein03Author
Participating Frequently
January 22, 2024

Hii! Thank you for your anwser! I don't really get where your >> comes from. I don't seem to have that....

EmmaCastelein03
EmmaCastelein03Author
Participating Frequently
January 22, 2024

 

 

Needs to be at the end of each of your caption texts and the frames have to be threaded:

 

 

 

 


Im literally doing that but nothing happens. Except for the fact it removes the text but keeps the wrong image number as i've shown above

jmlevy
jmlevy
Braniac
January 22, 2024

You have to know that automatic numbering done in separated frames does not depend on the frames position but on the chronological order: the frame which has been created first will be numbered 1 and so on.

EmmaCastelein03
EmmaCastelein03Author
Participating Frequently
January 22, 2024

And how can I change the order? I made all the frames a while ago.

jmlevy
jmlevy
Braniac
January 22, 2024

Select the one that must be numbered first, then cut it and paste it in place. Repeat the process with the other.

Steve Werner
Steve Werner
Braniac
January 22, 2024

You need to provide a better description of what you're trying to do. 

 

What do you mean by "image numberiing"? How are the images being placed on your pages?

EmmaCastelein03
EmmaCastelein03Author
Participating Frequently
January 22, 2024

I added a screenshot of how I placed the images and the image numbers

 

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