Back

If your email is not recognized and you believe it should be, please contact us.

  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.Login

Skip Page #s for Divider Pages

Return to Member Forum

  • Author
    Posts
    • March 19, 2012 at 9:38 am #61825
      Matt Mayerchak
      Participant

      I know I can use Numbering & Section Options to reset the page #s after a section divider page, but I'm looking for a faster way. If I have a long document with lots of unnumbered divider pages and the pages need to be rearranged a fair amount at client's request, it would help a great deal to be able to have a button that says something like “ignore this page in page numbering” so the numbers just continue on around that page as if it weren't there. That when when I move it, I don't have to reset all my section starts.

      Does anyone know of any plugin or anything that can do this?

    • March 19, 2012 at 11:16 am #61828
      Jewels
      Member

      What if you assign it a master page with no auto numbering on it?

    • March 19, 2012 at 11:19 am #61829
      Matt Mayerchak
      Participant

      That would be OK for the dividers, but not for the other pages. The following pages still need a section start.

      I'm trying to avoid having to use a new section start after every divider, because there is a lot of page re-ordering going on. And the only reason for a new section start is to reset the numbering.

    • March 19, 2012 at 1:30 pm #61830
      Jewels
      Member

      Oh sorry, gotcha.

    • March 19, 2012 at 2:14 pm #61831
      Theunis De Jong
      Member

      If you save every section as a separate document, you could use a Book. Moving sections around is then as simple as dragging these around.

    • March 19, 2012 at 2:19 pm #61832
      Matt Mayerchak
      Participant

      Nice in theory, but the reason for wanting this is that the pages move between sections. This is for a client in an in-house design firm where they have several versions of this document with different combinations of pages based on who will be using it. So the usual solutions for creating a book etc. are too cumbersome.

      Basically, a button that says “ignore this page when counting page numbers” is really what I want . . . I guess I need to add it to the Adobe feature request.

    • November 14, 2014 at 11:27 am #71657
      Donna G
      Member

      I am having the same problem and need a button that says “ignore this page when counting page numbers”, too. Has anyone come up with a solution for this?

    • November 14, 2014 at 11:53 am #71661
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      I always suggest people use auto numbering instead of page numbering in weird situations like this: https://creativepro.com/use-numbered-lists-instead-of-auto-page-numbering.php

      Of course, some stuff simply can’t be done then, such as TOC and indexing and x-refs.

    • November 14, 2014 at 3:48 pm #71666
      Donna G
      Member

      Ok, thanks David!

  • Author
    Posts
Viewing 8 reply threads
  • The forum ‘General InDesign Topics (CLOSED)’ is closed to new topics and replies.
Forum Ads