Xhanging page number styles within a document

[Elizabeth24634433gvu0]

Hoping someone could help me out!

I’m working on a large multipage project- think book- I want contents, introduction and all that other fluff in the front numbered by Roman numerals and then when the book actually begins I’d like to switch to regular numbers.

I am new to InDesign and teaching myself- had the entire book numbered- then I switched the entire book to be Roman numerals- then selected the page I wanted to begin having regular numbers but I cannot get the regular numbering to start with 1- when I type 1 into any of the available options it does this weird thing where it shuffles all of the pages down from the one I have selected?

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

In the Pages pane, right-click on the document page (icon) where you want the new numbering to start. Click Numbering & Section Options:

That brings up this menu:

In there, check to Start (a new) Section, Start Numbering (for the section) at 1, and select the numbering style.

Normally, you do this only once, on the page where you want 1/Arabic numbering to start. But you have to do it for the very first page (and section) as well to set the lower-case Roman numbering for the front material section, too. (In complex documents, you might set section numbering for six or a dozen or more sections, but that's usually for more technical documents.)

Note the little down-arrow over Page 1 up there — that's the indicator that a section has been started on that page.