Page numbering in BOOK

[GeirHenriksen]

Hi.
I’m having trouble with "BOOK" where the documents show each individual document’s page numbers, starting from 1 to whatever… This is a Book with linked documents I’ve worked with before (I’m just updating last year’s files now), but when I open it in the latest version of InDesign this change appears. Everything should be set to Automatic Page Numbering in each document. Does anyone have any tips?

[Eugene Tyson]

Your attachment is not working for me.

However, working with book files, I've always found that recreating the book file itself in a new version of InDesign is best practice.

File>New Book file 

and import all the documents again and setup the book options as the previous.

On a sidenote - you may also have to export each of your docs to an IDML in the version they were created.

Open those up in the new version of InDesign and resave as fresh InDesign file.
Then make the book file.

[GeirHenriksen]

Thanx. I did try to make a new book and add freshly saved indesign files into it without that beeing a solution... 

[GeirHenriksen]

[Eugene Tyson]

On the book panel top right menu with the 3 lines

There should be an option for Page Numbering options

But I also found this article

https://creativepro.com/book-panel-shows-wrong-page-number-fixed/

[GeirHenriksen]

That solved it.

Thank You!

[rob day]

Hi @GeirHenriksen , Make sure your General>Page Numbering>View Preference is set to Section Numbering before you make or open the Book.

[GeirHenriksen]

Thank You! 🙂