Reply To: Indesign Book – chapter layout problem

Eugene Tyson said:

If you want your first chapter to be a left hand page (that would be the first document in the book panel) to be a left hand page you have to open the document and go to Layout Numbering and Options and say Start Numbering at Page 2. This will make the first document a left hand page.

Then setting your Book Page Numbering Options and use the option “Continue from Previous Document” – this will let the chapters follow on in a natural order, so if chapter 1 ends on a left page, then chapter 2 will be facing that page.

And for example if Chapter 1 ended on a right hand page, then Chapter 2 would come directly after this, on a left hand page.

Thanks for gettig back to me again!

Well… when I say start from numbering at Page 2, the chapters go to left page but then all the rest text frames in the pages remain with their previous layout and don't change?! Here is a image… you can see the text frame away from the guides…

Also If I want the next chapter to begin at the right page (it depends on the lenght of the text of the chapter… sometimes left some times right) should I do it manualy in the document on this way by using “Numbering and Options” before importing the fils in the Book palette?!??!