I'm guessing it was the length of the forum post, honestly, Furry. It's easier to reply to one-liners. :)

But in this case, I think the response is clear: Use automatic numbering, not page numbers!

https://creativepro.com/use…..bering.php

What you have is a numbered list that just happen to look like page numbers.

Sounds really frustrating. Perhaps just a bug somewhere. All documents, or just one or two? Perhaps export to IDML and open the IDML to clean out weirdness in the file format?

Possible that the problem pages are on top of spot colors? Perhaps you need to turn on Overprint Preview?

What version of PDF are you using? Acrobat 4 (flattens transparency)? Acrobat 6 (doesn't flatten)?

I would suggest exporting to IDML (or inx, in cs3) and then opening that file. Might clean out weirdness that crept in.

Try looking through the story in the story editor (Edit > Edit in Story Editor). Look for index markers where they're supposed to be. Just more ideas for troubleshooting. Good luck!

Do you have the cell selected, or the text inside the cell? Press Esc to toggle between the cell and the text. (You need the cell selected.) Then you need to turn on/off the sides you want to control in the Strokes panel (or Control panel) by clicking on them.

It sounds like perhaps the topics came over from word, but the actual index markers didn't. Do the index topics in the index panel have triangles next to them, so you can open them and see page numbers?