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Choosing where page numbers start

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November 28, 2013
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Hi,

I'm working on a book project and would like to start the numbering on a particular page. How do I do that?

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Correct answer Steve Werner

Put your page numbers on a master page. Create a text frame. With the Type tool selected, choose Type > Insert Special Character > Markers > Current Page Number. Pages based on that master page will show the current page number. (Make sure the page number is on a layer or stacking order high enough to make them visible if there is a background object.)

Use Numbering and Section Options from the Pages panel menu to specify where the numbering starts and what style of numbering you're using.

Use a different master page (without page numbers) for pages that don't need page numbers to appear.

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Hi I have a question!

i would like to start my page numbering at page 6, but have it say page 1... how do I do this?

I have already set up page numbers and been able to get the page numbers to start showing up at page 6, but I want it to say 1 instead of 6 at that page...

Thanks!!

Peter Spier

Community Expert

Neither of the other two responders has mentioned that as soon as you reset a section to start at 1 ID is going to complain that there is another page with the same number already. You fix this by changing the numbering style for one of the sections, probably the one that starts on the first page of the document.

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Doc Maik

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Peter Spier wrote:
Neither of the other two responders has mentioned that as soon as you reset a section to start at 1 ID is going to complain that there is another page with the same number already.

So what? Let ID complain. That's why I wrote "not very elegant", but that's actually what the topic starter asked for. He/she might renumber the first two pages to A and B if he/she likes.

Peter Spier

Community Expert

@Doc Malik – It's not only for the alert message. If you want to print out or export to PDF and you like to do not the whole page range, but an individual range like (in absolute page numbering) 1-3, you'll ask for some trouble.

Of course one could use an absolute page numbering scheme like: Print pages: +1-+3.
But…

After trying this myself in InDesign CS5.5:

Very good, InDesign is clever enough to suggesting the right numbering scheme in the print or export dialog…

The point goes to you ;-)

Uwe

I didn't realize we had a competition going here, and I don't want belabor the point, but do you really think someone who is asking about starting numbering several pages into the document is already familiar with the difference between absolute and logical page numbering, and how to specify an absolute page range in the print/export dialogs?

All my post was intended to do was let the user know there would be a warning dialog when following Doc's excellent explanation, (Steve was a little less clear about starting a new section in the pages panel, I think), and how to resolve it so that you can still see the logical page numbers -- I don't know anyone who would want to use absolute numbers in the pages panel when they've restarted numbering.

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Doc Maik

Legend

In addition to Steve:

If you place a master page with such a placeholder, then it will show the current page number. In case you want to change the page numbering to, let's say, start with number 1 on the third spread, then you need to do that in the pages panel. Click the third spread/page and select page numbering options from the panel menu and set as desired. There are several ways to realise what you need. Not very elegant, but efficient:

Steve Werner

Correct answer

Community Expert

Put your page numbers on a master page. Create a text frame. With the Type tool selected, choose Type > Insert Special Character > Markers > Current Page Number. Pages based on that master page will show the current page number. (Make sure the page number is on a layer or stacking order high enough to make them visible if there is a background object.)

Use Numbering and Section Options from the Pages panel menu to specify where the numbering starts and what style of numbering you're using.

Use a different master page (without page numbers) for pages that don't need page numbers to appear.

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Anonymous

Thanks Steve.

I already had the page numbers and now see how to switch them to the 01, 02 format. So I changed them. But how specifically do you tell InDesign which page you want to be 01? I tried creating a new master with no page numbers and applying it to the pages prior to where I wanted 01 to start but it didn't automatically make the pages change. Meaning, I wanted what was 07 to become 01 so I applied a master with no page numbers to pages 01-06, so it took away the page numbers prior to 07, but the page numbering still started at 07 on page 07. Make sense?

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Doc Maik

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graph22 wrote:
But how specifically do you tell InDesign which page you want to be 01? I tried creating a new master with no page numbers and applying it to the pages prior to where I wanted 01 to start but it didn't automatically make the pages change. Meaning, I wanted what was 07 to become 01 so I applied a master with no page numbers to pages 01-06, so it took away the page numbers prior to 07, but the page numbering still started at 07 on page 07. Make sense?

See post 2. You need to renumber in the pages panel. If the former 01-06 shall not remain, you may renumber them A-F, so spread number 7 starts as 1 or 01.

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