Reply To: Master Page Auto-Page Numbering Symbol Showing up as an Error in Pink

It happens when the font doesn’t have the character that InDesign uses. To be honest, I’m not sure what the actual character is, as it appears as whatever you named your master page. In your case, it appear as the letter “A”. I name my master page for text as “TX” so TX would appear. I think in the Quark days, the # was the character that always appeared on the master page.

I’ve had it happen as well on running head variables, especially when using an expert font. The angle brackets appear pink as they don’t exist in the font.

I think you either have to live with the pink character on the master page or change the font.

It won’t hurt anything to leave it as it is.