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Page panel numbering wrong

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October 24, 2017
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Graphic designer creates indd files for catalog - then I take them and turn them to pdfs for online - never had a problem in the past with CS6.

Now we have CC - so I am in Essentials mode (as usual), but when I open a section of pages, the numbering is different than gr. designer has numbered. So her pages numbered 8 -12 in the Pages panel is numbered 1-5 on my computer - which makes it confusing to say the least.

I am IN "Start page numbering at ... " and it will say 8 or 12 or whatever it should be - but in the pages panel to the right, it has the pages as 1, 2, 3 etc.

I've looked everywhere and can't see why this is happening - anyone know?

Correct answer ruthellen15

Work flow is definitely broken - and is going to be a major inconvenience many times a year.

DING DING DING!

Gr. designer figured it out -- I had to go to InDesign>Preferences>General> and then choose Page Numbering/Section Numbering.

Fixed it. Even though I visited there earlier today and saw nothing change - well, it did now. So, thanks again for all of your helps!

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cherylpatrick@mac.om

Participant

I freaking love you... I searched hours and hours and wasted so much time, should have googled it first. Thank you!!!!!!!

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Jacklen5C44

Participant

I'm very grateful for everything

smittmasterflex80

Participant

Thank you so much for this. I set all my page numbering for multiple documents that are going to print next week. I had an issue running a script afterwards so I trashed my preference files, then this morning I noticed all my numbering vanished but the chapters and settings were still there. This saved my sanity, thanks again!!

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Every time you see a gray triangle above the page thumbnail, numbering has been updated manually on that page. It seems to me that you want to turn off the sections and restore automatic numbering on pages 2, 5, 6, 7 and 9 and then go back to the first spread and set the numbering to 8. The remaining pages will update accordingly.

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

amaarora

Community Manager

Hi,

Doesnt the triangle mark the start of a section from that page till the next page with the triangle on top which in a way implies manually changing numbers?

Can this be related to the designer working on book documents and OP on a single document?

-Aman

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Yes to the first question, and maybe, not sure what's going on there for the second question. But either way, all the resets in the middle make it difficult to fix. It should be straightforward in a document (see below) and the designer can still update later if necessary in the book window. Or am I missing something, Aman?

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

ruthellen15Author

Inspiring

This is what I have under Numbering and Section options.

winterm

Legend

6 sections in a 10 pages document? With the same and consistent page numbering? Don’t you find it’s a bit overkill?

Turn off Allow Document Pages to Shuffle, while Allow Selected Spread to Shuffle can be left ON (and there won’t be any brackets around page numbers), leave just the first section (you can't remove it), and see how it goes.

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ralphl80973141

Participant

Another pc of the weird puzzle - so I took the InDesign cc files of one of these lookbooks and saved it in a separate location and saved in "InDesign CS4 or Later". Opened up the same section I've been dealing with all day here and it has all the page numbers correct! (Edit; the #s are there if opened in CS6, still 1-10 in CC.)

So my InDesign CC definitely seems to have a problem.

I am going to have to save all of the future catalog pages in a separate location as an older version. Of course, the graphic designers could create them in CS6 still too, but I mean, the company just insisted we get this Adobe CC -- it just doesn't work in my case for ID.

Weird. Anyone know who/how I could contact Adobe about a fix for this?

And thank you for all your help, I don't think anything we do is going to fix that.

one fix is to use InDesign2025 Beta for anything to do with books and page numbering.InDesign 2025 does not work reliably with books, repaging, and a few other things. Whenever it doesn't work right, I temporarily switch to Beta do the task andthen switch back. a PITA

ruthellen15Author

Inspiring

Here you go, thanks, Bob -

These pages should be numbered as 8 -17. On the graphic designer's Indesign workspace, they are. On mine, they are 1 - 10.