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117 Including a total page count in your page numbers

117 Including a total page count in your page numbers - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

117 Including a total page count in your page numbers

It always surprises me how popular any post that we write on indesignsecrets.com is if it has anything to do with manipulating the automatic page numbering in InDesign. Seriously, it's just amazing how many people around the globe need to do something different than what InDesign can offer, and they ask us how to help. So here I'm going to show you some of our favorite tips. The top three I'd put it. Starting with the very basic one, that surprisingly not many people know about, to ones a little bit more gnarly, that you may enjoy and find to be very useful. First, a basic one that I hear a lot is, how do I make the automatic page number say one of and then tell me the total number of pages in the document and have it automatically update as I add or remove pages? So in this document, which is 25 pages long, we want two trees, olive oil one to say one of 25, two of 25, three of 25. Well, that's done by going to the master page, where all page numbering should be done. And just go to…

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