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Next page number

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
February 19, 2025
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Hello,
I'm having a problem numbering my pages in Indesign. I would like my two page numbers to appear only on my left page. But when I add an active page number + a next page number, the next page number remains the active page number. Like I can't number a page if it's the next page. You see on the attached document, I would like it to say "4/5" and not "4/4". Thanks for your answers.

Correct answer Peter Spier

You're on the right track, but you have a couple of steps missing.

In your text frasme on the left page enter your Current Page marker-Slash-Next Page marker and a Frame Break character.

With the selection tool click the outport on this frame then use the loaded cursor to draw an empty frame anywhere on the right page and it should work.

Rijuta_Jain0176

Participant

How did you do it? I've been trying for the past 2 days and cannot do it.
and you tell step by step.

Peter Spier

Community Expert

We've already laid out the steps. Are you using the Next Page Number marker that you access from Insert Special Character > Markers > Next Page Number?

What result do you get when you try to follow the steps?

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

Hi Peter,

Yes, without the Frame Break. I have never done either of these ideas before. I guess I'm a boring 1-page = 1-number kind of guy.

Mike Witherell

Peter Spier

Community Expert

Me, too. and I did essentially the same thing you did, but I fured I neded the frame break to be sure InDesign thought the story continued. Evidently all you need is a linked frame.

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

A novel way to number pages!

As an experiment, I went to the Parent page, and made 1 textframe containing:

CurrentPageNumber / NextPageNumber

And then I switched to the black Selection tool, clicked the Out Port of the textframe, and dragged out a small linked/threaded textframe on the right-hand page of the Parent pages. Works fine, but this only shows up on each left-hand physical page (which seems to be what you are showing in your screenshot)

Mike Witherell

Peter Spier

Community Expert

@Mike Witherell you did this without the frame break I included and it worked? Very interesting and I'll try to keep that in the back of my head.

Peter Spier

Correct answer

Community Expert

You're on the right track, but you have a couple of steps missing.

In your text frasme on the left page enter your Current Page marker-Slash-Next Page marker and a Frame Break character.

With the selection tool click the outport on this frame then use the loaded cursor to draw an empty frame anywhere on the right page and it should work.

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Lucile AlabamaAuthor

Participant

It worked ! Thanks to you all for your advices 🙂

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

You missunderstand the fuction "Next Page Number". It does not show tthe next page number in the document. It serves to show where an articel is succeeded. You put a seperate text frame with a text like "continues on the next page". This frame has to touch the text frame of the linked story.

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