I am using indesign CS4 and I am having issues with page numbering. I am printing 2 sided so I have a few pages that are blank that I don't want numbered. I can't figure out how to tell indesign not to number the blank pages.
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Just don't add the text box with the page numbering to those pages (leave them as blank pages in your ID artwork).
If the page numbering is part of a master page layout, you can either select it as it appears on those blank pages by holding down ctrl-shift and clicking it - this frees it up on that page/spread and allows you to delete it without changing anything else - or, the safer method, is to create a new master page layout which is blank and base the blank pages on this.
I think I should have worded the original posting differently. It is not numbering the blank page but it is still counting that page and numbering the next page in succession. I hope that makes sense?? The blank page is being used so that the back side of a page is left blank but I need to tell in design not to count that as a page in its number sequence. Any Idea how to do that? If I have to I guess I could manually number each page but at over 100 pages that would be a pain.
i don't think there's a way to automatically do that. you could restart page numbering to a specific page number after each blank page, and that's faster than numbering every page manually, but you'll still have to fix each of those page numbering markers every time. to do this in CS4, right click the page you want to start the new page number on, click numbering and section options, and change automatic to "start page numbering at X." you'll have to do this after each blank, non-numbered page, but you won't have to do it on every page.
i'm curious as to why you're doing this. if you're printing double-sided, this actually breaks convention fairly strongly. when pages are double-sided, many people expect that odd page number to always be on the right and it may confuse them that odd/even page numbers switch sides of the spread constantly. this kind of convoluted numbering is something i discourage clients from doing.
I am having the same issue and haven't figured out a way to do it automatically.
The reason I need to format my pages like this is for a page limitation required for a proposal we are submitting. They require the proposal to be numbered and only 50 pages in length. But each of my sections don't happen to end on an even page, therefore it is counting the blank pages as some of my allotted amount, which I don't want it to.
I've decided to do it manually, but if anyone has any other suggestions that would be helpful.