Reply To: David, viewing your numbering video, but I don't have "A Main page"

Jongware said:

Seems you inadvertently set a lot of “start new section HERE” on your pages. Look in the pages panel for the tell-tale small black triangle at the top of a page. The very first page always has one, because the start of a document is the start of a new section by definition. All others have been set manually, by you that is.

Call up the Page Numbering (etc.) dialog for these pages (and one at a time) and deselect “Start new section”. In addition, it also seemed earlier you went on a clicking spree inside this dialog, hence you got all those different page numbering formats. Do Not Click On Random Items And Hope It Get Things Working. This method hardly ever works in InDesign.

(A co-worker of mine went to a similar phase, and accidentally selected “Close” for the document he had been working on for several hours — without saving in between. InDesign prompted him with the familiar “Save before closing? [Yes] [No] [Cancel]”. He panicked and thought “No” was the safest answer. Laughs all around when ID threw away all of his work. Well, not from him, naturally.)

Jongware, it's nice to have someone on the forum to help when I'm in the middle of all this. lol. Thank u! You were right and I forgot to mention this in my post above. I DID have some section starts that were messing things up. I de-selected them.

Honestly, it's not “clickingon random items and hoping it gets things working”. It's following directions as a neophyte and somehow getting messed up. Sometimes directions given aren't step-by-step enough for this Indesign kindergartener. lol.