From the course: InDesign: Advanced Styles
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Number across stories - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Advanced Styles
Number across stories
- [Lecturer] This movie is about how to create a list that numbers across stories. To do this, in addition to the numbering options I covered in the previous movie, I need a list style. I'm going to modify this story and if I make it into two threaded text frames we see that the numbers continue. However, if I were to cut the text and paste it into a separate story you see that the numbers restart. Let's imagine that these were on different pages and I wanted the numbers to continue, then what I need to do is edit the number list Paragraph Style, come to my Bullets and Numbering options and I need to use this option, New List. And that's really all I need to do, just choosing is enough, just making sure that this option is checked and also this one, which we're going to come to in just a moment. And now the numbers will continue. So let's imagine that these parts of a list are in separate documents and we want to continue the numbering across them. Then, what we need to do is…
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