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035 Numbering instead of using auto page numbers

035 Numbering instead of using auto page numbers - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

035 Numbering instead of using auto page numbers

InDesign has a page numbering feature which is great most of the time, but sometimes you need more control or you want the numbering feature to do something that it wasn't really designed to do. For example, let's say on these pages we didn't want it to go 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on, we wanted it to be 1A on the left page and 1B on the right page, and then 2A and 2B and so on. Can you do that in InDesign? Well, not with the page numbering feature, but you can with a different automatic numbering feature in InDesign. That's right, the automatic paragraph numbering. Let me show you how to do it. Because this is page numbering, I'm going to do it on the Master page. So I'll press Command+J or Ctrl+J on Windows to open the Go to Page dialog box. Press A, press OK, and now here we are on Master page A, that's where we're going to put this. And I'll select the Type tool, draw out a little text frame here, and I'm going to put my numbering in there. Let's go ahead and zoom into 400%, so we can…

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