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June 7, 2025
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Page numbering in a book

  • June 7, 2025
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Each of my chapters now begins with page 1. I have incorporated them in a book (indb). I want the book's page numbering to run sequentially, from 1 to 1,200 (Yes, that's right. Just be glad you're not the student who has to read all that.) 

 

I do know how to do page numbering with sections in an individual file, but I don't know how to arrange it among files that I have incorporated in a book. For example, Chapter 1 runs from 1 to 109, with a verso page as 110 even though it will be blank. Chapter 2 should therefore begin with 111 (recto page). I can accomplish that "by hand," as it were, by specifying for each chapter the page number on which it is to begin, but is there a way to do that automatically? I ask because if I make changes in a chapter that either add or remove pages, I'd like not to have to hand-renumber the succeeding chapters.

Correct answer Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Thanks, Dave. Just to make sure I don't mess this up, I should open each chapter from within the book and make that adjustment, right? 


Yes, but just the ones you want to auto number. You can open the settings from within the book file:

 

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Dave Creamer of IDEAS
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June 7, 2025

You update the book numbering in the book file:

 

BEFORE you do that, check these settings:

 

 

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
Inspiring
June 7, 2025

Wonderfully clear. Thank you.