Renaming pages

I really wish I could name pages in InDesign - I don't care who doesn't know anyone else who would want to do that - for my purposes, I do. 

I'm not an editor, I don't work with magazines, I'm a graphic designer in the film industry and I use Adobe to create ficitional work for graphic props. Why I want to do it is my own business, my own workflow.

I haven't read this whole thread, but I'm wondering if anyone suggested using the Book feature (found under "File>New") in InDesign to separate out your sections?  You could have one book (a collection of files, or even just one file) each for the front/middle/back -- which, I would imagine would capture ads in the front, cast, etc., in the middle, and more ads at the back. Then combine at the end in a Library (also found under File>New). At least you'd have your sections separated for a little bit easier organizing while you work. And once your "book" files are compiled in a library file, you could set the page numbering for continuous (from one book to the next) and print your PDF.

You can rename. Right click on the name of the page/spead in the Pages panel and choose Master options for "original name"

I get around this by creating a top layer in InDesign which I call "Notes" and I put a text box on each page that provides a name for the page. You can always turn off the top layer whenever you need to work on a page, and turn it back on when you need to find pages in your layout.

Hi DigitalDesigner1,

just out of curiosity, can you name some apps that doing page naming to your liking?

How can the names be addressed? How can they be managed?

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender

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I've landed here looking for an answer to this, and have to say I agree with Chris, this is yet another essential feature missing which many other lesser tools already have. The option should be there for users who want to use it, for those that don't they can keep doing things the way they have been.

Hi Chris,

with InDesign you can "name" pages. At least a bit.

But you are very restricted in the number of characters and you have to think in units of page sections.

There is prefix naming with a maximum of eight characters that can be shown in the Pages Panel.

However, if you need a different prefix per page you also need a different section per page.

From my German InDesign where I changed the numbering and section options by adding a prefix:

Another way would be to use a page label color:

Yet another way would be using a so-called script label.

But you cannot apply or see this label without selecting a page with the Page Tool in the Layout window and using the Script Label Panel:

That all aside you could use a text frame on the page with a huge point size doing a descriptive text of the page or a name, setting this frame on a layer stacked above all other layers and showing a thumbnail view of the page contents in the Pages panel. You may lock this layer. Do not set it to non-printing, because you would not see its contents in the Pages panel:

Regards,
Uwe

You could apply custom master pages to each unique set of pages. You could name the master with up to four letters rather than "A" for every one. This would only be efficient if you are using a particular master page more than once.

if each page is unique, you could also section each page with a prefix code, which would have to be done one at a time and manually. You could use this for consecutive sections of pages too.

I suppose you could use alternative layouts for each page, but leaving the page size as is. You can use the layout name as the "page" name.