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• • August 10, 2012 at 3:17 pm #62832
    Anonymous

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    All I have is “A-Master”. Will I be able to number the pages using this?

    I am heading over to the Section video next for the roman numerals.

    By the way, you video is for a catalog, and I'm doing a book where the pages numbers are on top with the headings I still need to figure out how to make. Is there a video helping me do this?

  • August 10, 2012 at 10:56 pm #62844
    Gert Verrept

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    D, In the page panel, you'll find a “master” page called “none” and a master page “A”. If you check all your pages in that panel, you'll see they all will be “A-masters”, unless you've create some others.

    To make the page number appear on each page, add the page number on the right master page. How, select the type tool, make a text frame, click in it so you can start typing and add the number (type menu- insert special char – markers – current page number).

    This frame, you can move wherever you want on the page, top or bottiom, left or right.

  • August 11, 2012 at 9:21 pm #62853
    Anonymous

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    gert said:

    D, In the page panel, you'll find a “master” page called “none” and a master page “A”. If you check all your pages in that panel, you'll see they all will be “A-masters”, unless you've create some others.

    To make the page number appear on each page, add the page number on the right master page. How, select the type tool, make a text frame, click in it so you can start typing and add the number (type menu- insert special char – markers – current page number).

    This frame, you can move wherever you want on the page, top or bottiom, left or right.

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    Hi Gert. It took me reading your directions three times and experimenting….and I got it! :) Thank you.

    But….this put an A on the first title page, which I don't want, and a page number on the first page of each chapter, which I don't want. How do I remove those???

  • August 11, 2012 at 10:50 pm #62854
    Gert Verrept

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    Doodlebug1, with the selection tool, go to the page where you don't want to have a number, it will be framed with “a dotted line”.

    Ctrl+shift-click on it and you'll see that the dotted line becomes a “full line”. This means you can select it and delete it, just on this page (override master item). Do thos for all the pages where you don't want the numbers or the A.

  • August 12, 2012 at 1:25 pm #62860
    Anonymous

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    gert said:

    Doodlebug1, with the selection tool, go to the page where you don't want to have a number, it will be framed with “a dotted line”.

    Ctrl+shift-click on it and you'll see that the dotted line becomes a “full line”. This means you can select it and delete it, just on this page (override master item). Do thos for all the pages where you don't want the numbers or the A.

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    Gert, a million Texas hugs to you! It worked. Heading back to the document now to finish up deleting those I don't want.

    One more question and it will complete my headings: I finished putting the name of my book heading on the left pages via the left Master Page. For the right headings of each chapter, do I create a new Master page for each chapter, such a B for Chapter One's title, C for Chapter 2's title… and apply each chapter's right page headings that way? By looking at David's video titled Creating and Applying Master pages, it struck me that this was the way to do, right?

  • August 12, 2012 at 2:41 pm #62861
    Anonymous

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    Gert, I send my Texas hugs too soon. lol.

    I just realized that your directions ONLY gave me numbering on the right pages. So I went back to the Master pages, used the selection tool to create a frame on the left side…..and the frame won't stay there. I have no numbers on the left pages and am stuck on how to get them there.

    UPDATE: While waiting on your generous help, I went back, pressed Option, dragged the right number frame to the left, and the left pages numbers appears. I used David's video to understand how to drag. Whew. Hugs back to you and David! lol.

    Until you are able to help with my final question above, I'll try making more Master pages to do each chapter headings on the right side…..I think. lol

  • August 12, 2012 at 3:21 pm #62863
    Anonymous

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    Gert, this has turned into a mess. Though I did drag the frame to the left pages, and at first, I did see the right roman numeral pages….it got messed up.

    My roman numerals should go to xxx….then comes the first page of the first chapter with no numeral, then comes the start of numerals…page 32.

    Instead, what should be xxx is where the numerals start–i.e. 30 is there, NOT xxx.

    Then it gets worse!! Page 32 is correct, but then the numbering becomes AG, 33, AI, AH, AI, AJ, AK, AL AM….and to the end of the book. Also note that AI is twice. WHAT is going on?? ARGGHHHHHHHHH

  • August 12, 2012 at 3:29 pm #62864
    Anonymous

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    By the way, I tried to start all over again with the Master pages…and “Current Page” after Type>Insert Special Character>Marker is grayed out. Very confused. I need a strong cup of caffeinated coffee.

  • August 12, 2012 at 3:59 pm #62866
    Theunis De Jong

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    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.)

  • August 12, 2012 at 4:21 pm #62867
    Anonymous

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    You just gotta have a sense of humor here. I finally got the numbering correct, but it was totally luck of the draw, and there's still something screwy I had to work around. Can you clarify what I state below?

    1. When you get a New Section box up (the far right Pages menu of three horizontal lines ), it says Start page numbering at ____ . I put in 1. I am assuming that means the first page of my book, which is the title page, right?
    2. Then under that is Section Prefix. I have no idea what that means so it's blank.
    3. Under that is Style and I have the roman numerals showing. I assumed that means that starting from my title page, pages are numbered with roman numbers.
    4. I have Section Marker blank because I have no idea what that means either.
    5. Then comes the boxed section titled Document Chapter Numbering. I have selected Start Chapter Numbering ____and I put 33 in the blank. Now in reality, the numerals should start on page 31 which is the first page of Chapter One….but when I had 31 in the blank, it was screwy. It was two pages off. So by putting 33 in the blank, my numbering starts on page 31. Go figure.

  • August 12, 2012 at 4:26 pm #62868
    Anonymous

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    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.)

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    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.

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