InDesign Auto Page Number

Submitted by visual28 on Thu, 2005-02-03 17:32.

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Here is a problem that has eluded me for sometime perhaos one of you know the answer.

I use InDesign for all of my page layouts. often times I find myself creating seperate files for the covers. This is confusing to clients and can lead to additional chaos if you forget that an element is on the cover page.

My question is this: Is it possiable to set up InDesign to not count the cover pages as pages in the auto number? I want to start the Auto Numbering on page 3 instead of page 1. That way I can include my cover pages and not count it as page 1.

Does this make sence. Sorry to be so confusing. I can elaborate if you need be.

thanks in advance

mark

In InDesign CS under the Layo

Submitted by Gloria Chen on Thu, 2005-02-03 20:59.

In InDesign CS under the Layout file menu, goto Numbering and Section Option. This dialogue box allow you to specify which page to start page numbering. You can even have different sections in your book, either as Roman numerals or Arabic numerals in the same document.

sorry to sidetrack here, but

Submitted by Ivan on Thu, 2005-02-03 22:29.

sorry to sidetrack here, but isn't it funny that in the west we use the arabic numerals and the arabic numerals are not the ones used in the arab world? arabs use the indian numbers primarily. i'm not sure what the indians use though. :?

I agree with gloria. I usuall

Submitted by mayhemstudios on Fri, 2005-02-04 09:01.

I agree with gloria. I usually set my front cover/back cover as "A" master and the inside cover/back inside cover as "B" master. Then I start page 1 from the 3rd page like what you want to do.

Might be a little late on

Submitted by Ben on Wed, 2005-09-07 20:28.

Might be a little late on this one, but yes I ran into the same problem. All you need to do is start a new section. If page 1 and 2 is your cover, select page 3 in the Pages palette, click on the options triangle to get the context menu and choose Numbering and Section Options. Make sure Start Section is checked, and the radio button for Start Page Numbering at is selected. In your case, you would want 1 to be the value.

Or...

Submitted by thePhilster on Thu, 2005-09-22 07:16.

Set your master pages up with the auto page numbers, and on the 1st page - or any page you don't want the master pages to apply to - click on the pages options palette, and select "Override All Master Page Items". You can then remove any master page feature you no longer want (ie page numbers)...

page numbers

Submitted by dawn Kresan on Mon, 2007-08-13 20:52.

I have this small problem with InDesign that I cannot correct. I have inserted the automatic pages numbers on the master pages, and every page is therefore numbered. On pages with headings and table of contents I do not want the page numbers to show. If I remove the box, then the pages are not counted in the document. I want all the pages counted, but not shown on select pages.

This is my first attempt at using InDesign. I normally use Quark. With Quark, I can just delete the numbers from the box. I was thinking the easiest way to fix this was to but a box over the page numbers that I did not want seen, but the problem is that the boxes in InDesign are transparent not opaque.

I really need to send this or it won't be ready for the book launch. Any ideas how to fix this problem. I've read previous posts, but they only discuss how to remove master page elements from specific pages, and as I stated this means that the page is not counted.

Thanks for any help, Dawn